Learn how to work smarter, not just harder. This practical session helps you spot the difference between what’s urgent and what’s truly important, so you can move from feeling busy to being genuinely effective. You’ll discover how to bring more focus and intention to your daily routines – and uncover the hidden time-wasters that are holding you and your team back.
Cost: HAI Members: €225; Non Members: €285
For more information please contact Aoife at aoife@hardwareassociation.ie or call 01 2980969.
Further Recommended Learning:
Performance Managing the Sales Team
Leadership & Communication Skills
Change Management
Learning Outcomes:
By the end of the course, participants will:
- Understand what’s Urgent vs what’s Important, and the difference between being busy and being effective
- Inject purposefulness and focus into your everyday life
- Identify the many sources of time wasting
- Recognise behaviours to develop to become more effective
- See how to modify the behaviour of others who interfere with your effectiveness
- Learn how to say “No” constructively, without demotivating or offending others
- Effect a range of planning and workflow techniques
Course Content
Time Management Quiz
- Participants self-assess their time management ability, giving context to the day’s activity
Time Management Perspective
- We cannot expand time, but we can choose how we use it
- What stops us from being more effective? (Breakout Group Exercise)
- Procrastination, and how to eliminate it
Planning
- How and when do I plan my activity? (worksheet)
- Planning Exercise
- Create a To Do List
- Prioritise it
- Set time frames
- Not To Do list
Barriers to Effectiveness (Breakout Group Exercise)
- Time Stealers
- Interruptions (Breakout Group Exercise)
- Behaviours of Effective Time Managers
Urgence Inventory Quiz (Stephen Covey)
- Participants self-assess their level of Urgency Addiction
- Overview of The 7 habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey
- What can we learn from this?
- Planning Priority Matrix
- Revisit our To Do List from the morning – what will we change?
Setting Priorities (Breakout Group Exercise)
Who Should Attend
This full-day workshop is recommended to senior managers, supervisors, team leaders and business owners in the hardware and building materials sector.
Methodology
This workshop is interactive. Participants will complete individual and group exercises to reinforce learning.
About the trainer
Dervilla O’Brien combines coaching and training expertise with more than twenty-five years of corporate experience as a member of senior management teams across a range of companies. Dervilla was Sales Director in Irish Biscuits (Jacobs), Tayto and Golden Pages. She has been a key negotiator with staff, customers, prospective buyers and owners.
Dervilla delivers leadership and management training to numerous organisations in the public and private sectors, large and small. She has worked with a rage of Skillnets, including ICOS and Positive 2 Work. She is an Associate Faculty member in Dublin Business School.
For more information please contact Aoife at aoife@hardwareassociation.ie or call 01 2980969.