Time management training course - multimedia cd-rom & candidate workbook

This Time Management self-development program will teach candidates to control the vicious circle of time-pressure and stress; allowing them to make the most effective use of their time, energy and talents.

They will learn how to apply an array of proven techniques; urgency & importance grid classification, task/time optimization and a variety of effective decision making strategies. They will also understand Goal analysis and definition; how to evaluate and deal with interruptions; how to classify, and deal efficiently with incoming phone calls, email and mail. Don’t take our word for it – see customer comments

Multimedia CD-Rom Candidate Workbooks

"written for anyone who suffers from time famine"
This course was obviously written for anyone who suffers from "time famine". It provides simple, effective methods for successfully taking control of your own life. It shows how, by managing time better, anyone can lead a happier, more confident and fulfilled life.
Sandy Dewigg, Senior Staff Nurse, Collingdale Hospital, Michigan, USA

“it will change your approach to time management forever”
As a corporate motivator, I read a lot of personal development books. This CD-Rom is one product I can highly recommend. It is like a breath of fresh air and will change your approach to time management forever.
Pamela Holdsworth, motivational lecturer, Scotland, UK

Courses Available


The Commercial License costs only $295 and enables unlimited use of the multimedia CD-ROM & Candidate Workbook within your organization.

Do your staff	... Feel that there aren't enough hours in the day? Spend too many hours at work, getting too little done? Put their work before their physical well-being? Spend too much time in meetings and discussions? Fail to achieve their goals because they are too busy to set any?

Tackle the Time Crunch Now! This Time Management self-development program will help candidates take on their biggest enemy - time crunch. In this fast-moving world, organizing and managing time is a big challenge. This course explains how to meet and conquer the time challenge once and for all. Its groundbreaking "personalized" approach helps candidates uncover their own strengths & weaknesses to develop a time-management system that suits their needs.

Candidates will learn how to: Identify and apply proven techniques for dealing with stress and overload and how to optimize their working time in a multi-task environment. For those with seniority, the course also contains detailed training in how to overcome the reluctance to delegate, and how to decide which tasks are suitable for delegation and the art of delegating effectively. This course will enable candidates to develop a time management approach optimized for the precise requirements of their personality and job.

Purchase of a Commercial License enables unlimited use of this training course within your organization. We can already list many of the Worlds leading organizations as users of GetAhead training courses.

If your organization would like to provide GetAhead training courses as a self-study learning resource for your staff (or members) you will need to purchase this Commercial License version.

GetAhead in Time Management

This Time Management self-development program is equivalent to a two-day instructor led course and is made up of self contained sections, each representing approximately 15 minutes of training. This gives candidates the flexibility to either undertake intensive study or to fit their training into a busy work schedule.

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Study Area 1 - Introduction
	Understanding Time Management - Explains the attributes needed for effective time management, and the benefits of beginning with a limited range of tactics, before extending these into an overall time management strategy.
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Study Area 2 - Time Management Principles
	Identifying Time Loss - Explains the importance of carrying out an objective review of how you currently spend your time and identifying what proportion of it is spent in areas that are not essential to achieving your goals.
	Urgency and Importance - Describes how to use an urgency/importance grid to classify the tasks that you currently perform, and how to optimise the amount of time that you spend on each type of task.
	Effective Decision Making - Describes a variety of techniques that can contribute to more effective decision making.
	Setting Your Goals - Discusses adopting a proactive approach in order to anticipate events and be in a position to identify and define your goals clearly.
	Defining Your Objectives - Explains how to analyze your goals to define a series of objectives and the need to rank objectives in order to identify the means and actions needed to achieve them.
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Study Area 3 - Time Saving Techniques
	Dealing With Interruptions - Explains how to evaluate what an interruption represents as a demand on your time and how to deal with non-urgent interruptions in a polite but effective way.
	Knowing When to Delegate - Explains how to overcome the reluctance to delegate, and how to decide which tasks are suitable for delegation.
	Delegating Effectively - Details the practical aspects of delegating work, the importance of providing ongoing support and feedback, and the need to evaluate the outcome and apply any lessons learned when delegating work in the future.
	Managing Incoming Calls - Describes how to screen your incoming calls when you don't want to be interrupted, and a variety of tactics for keeping incoming telephone calls as short as possible.
	Managing Outbound Calls - Explains the use of an outgoing call log to help plan and structure your calls, and an efficient time management approach to making outgoing calls.
	Organizing Your Workspace - Explains how to deal with incoming paperwork in an efficient way, and how to identify manual and electronic filing systems that meet the needs of the way you work.
	Communicating Effectively - Discusses various time saving techniques that you can use to improve your efficiency with regard to written communications. These include: speed-reading, business letters and email.
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Study Area 4 - Dealing With Stress
	Understanding Overload - Describes the most common sources of work-related stress, and provides an objective assessment of the extent to which you may be suffering from overload at work.
	Negotiating Your Workload - The inability to say 'no' to requests can be a significant contributor to stress and overload. This section explains how to decline requests when it is appropriate to do so.
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Study Area 5 - Practical Time Planning
	Planning Your Day - Explains how to use a planner or scheduler, to plan your tasks according to your workload and performance cycle.
	Using Activity Networks - Describes activity networks, which have become established as one of the most popular resource planning techniques available.
	Critical Path Analysis - Shows how to identify the critical path within any network of activities and how to calculate the total float and the free float available.
	Effective Resource Planning - Describes resource planning, which is concerned with the effective scheduling of all of the resources available in order to deliver the outputs required.
	Preparing Planning Diagrams - Discusses the various ways that resource planning information can be summarized for presentation to senior management.
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GetAhead Multimedia CD-Roms
This multimedia CD-Rom represents approximately 5 hours of interactive study and is equivalent to a 2-day instructor led course. It is made up of self contained sections, each representing approximately 15 minutes of training, giving you the flexibility to either undertake intensive study or to fit your training into a busy work schedule. It clearly describes the underlying concepts which are then illustrated using a variety of real-world examples. It also includes fully interactive exercises, case studies and questions to ensure that you understand and remember all of the key messages.


Stimulating Interactivity Every title in the GetAhead series uses a combination of specially developed 3D graphics, animation and interactivity to create a stimulating one-on-one multimedia learning environment. Each course represents 5 hours of intensive training and is equivalent to a 2-day instructor led course. A personal coach (Avatar) will guide each candidate through the course, introducing each section, posing questions and summarizing the key learning points.
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Flexible Study All GetAhead courses are modular and are made up of self-contained sections, each representing approximately 15 minutes of training. Each candidates progress is recorded each time they use the course, giving them the flexibility to either undertake intensive study or to fit their training into a busy work schedule. On subsequent training sessions, each candidate is given the opportunity to recall their personal study history and continue from that point.
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In-Depth Content Each GetAhead title has been designed by experts in that subject area. Each course clearly describes the underlying concepts which are then illustrated using a variety of real-world examples. All of the content is fully narrated and includes interactive exercises, case studies and questions to ensure that candidates understand and remember all of the key messages.
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Course Administration A challenging self test is included with each GetAhead course, to provide each candidate with an accurate appraisal of their performance. Each interactive question includes detailed feedback together with a cumulative score. The commercial licence includes a built in Learning Management System (LMS) enabling a course administrator to review the performance of all candidates that have taken the test. This includes the following criteria: Candidate Name Course Title Date of Test Time of Test Candidates Score Time Taken The course administration is password protected and facilitates the: search for, export & deletion of candidate records.

GetAhead Candidate Workbook

The candidate workbook is designed to be used in conjunction with the interactive multimedia CD-Rom training course and provides an invaluable learning aid. It can be printed out and distributed to as many candidates as required and will help them to maximize their learning experience.

Used whilst studying the multimedia CD-Rom, the candidate workbook acts as a largely pre-written set of candidate course notes. However, everybody learns in a unique way and the workbook supports this – as it also contains space in which candidates can add their own notes and annotations as their studies progress.

As with the multimedia CD-Rom, the candidate workbook clearly describes the underlying concepts which are then illustrated using a variety of real-world examples. It also includes exercises, full text case studies and questions to ensure that they understand and remember all of the key messages imparted by the multimedia CD-Rom.

Workbook features include:

Candidate workbook features

   1) Full Acrobat navigation, facilitating targeted content searching.
   2) Section introductions are used to emphasize the key learning objectives.
   3) Key learning points are highlighted within each self contained section.
   4) Questions are supported by detailed feedback in a separate section
   5) Pictorial explanations are used where these add clarity or meaning.
   6) Each section is summarised to reinforce the key learning messages.