Controlling your time through careful planning

Training Theme

This hands-on training addresses time management through smart planning. She starts by identifying personal challenges before presenting different planning methods via concrete cases. Learners discover the importance of balanced planning (70% of the time planned), the prioritization of tasks with the Eisenhower matrix, and the need to preserve time for strategic thinking. The training emphasizes that planning should serve personal fulfillment and not become a constraint. Practical tools and concrete examples allow for immediate implementation.

Training Objectives

In this online course, you will learn how to:

• Reflect on the meaning of your work and its objectives beforehand.
• Seriously sort through your to-do list before planning.
• Set priorities by categorizing tasks within the four quadrants of the Eisenhower Matrix.
• Block off blank slots in your schedule and discern how to fill them.
• Allocate specific time periods for reflection, strategy, and innovation.
• Formalize your weekly and daily schedules in writing, share them with your colleagues, and review them regularly.
• Incorporate time optimization for the purpose of personal fulfillment and happiness.

Target Audience 

Anyone wishing to improve their time management.

Training Content 

This module contains 4 parts:

DISCOVER

• Identify your personal challenges and motivations for change.

SHAKING UP

• Storytelling: Video The Planners' Evaluation (2'26).
• A comparison between two planning methods throughout the story of Paul and Alan.
• Video Learning Quiz.

LEARN

• Expert video: Planning your time with lucidity (6'38).
• Presentation of the different planning approaches according to profiles and methods to gain efficiency.
• Interactive exercise: Quiz on sharing the professional schedule.
• Interactive exercise: True/False on good planning practices.

ANCHOR

• Reading the Memo Coaching Sheet: Why and How to Plan.
• Interactive map: Examples of good practices for change (testimonies of Liam, Amir, Harald, Natacha).
• Use real-world examples to define your own commitment to change.

Additional resources

• Downloadable documents: Coaching memo sheet (PDF).