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Time Management For Teachers: For Individuals
Introduction
How To Use This Course - a few details about how the course is broken down and how the process works.
A Brief Welcome From Iain - an overview of what we'll be covering together (2:29)
Reflection Questions - It's useful to start by thinking about what you want from the course and how you expect it to help
The Concept Of Time
The President's To Do List - Fundamental concepts about the nature of time, your approach to time, disempowering attitudes to time, the real question about time, the truth about 'time management' (3:31)
Was I Being Harsh? - examining the importance of your approach to time, what effect does your view have?
A Perspective On Time
Welcome To The Matrix - effective prioritising, working to priorities, identifying important but non-urgent tasks, diagnosing your priorities, balancing importance and urgency, distinguishing between time spent well vs time wasted, characteristics of deadlines, vicious cycles within the Time Management Matrix. (12:14)
Using The Matrix - employing the model to get an overview of your approach to tasks and your current workflow
Priorities
To Do Lists - choosing where to start, illogical ways of prioritising, step by step logical and dispassionate method of prioritising tasks and creating a to do list, scheduling your priorities, adapting to change, dealing with constraints, prioritising your schedule. (11:01)
Your Last Ten Tasks - understanding how your approach to prioritising can dictate your effectiveness, productivity and self inflicted pressure
Work That Slows You Down
Eating Frogs And Elephants - avoiding procrastination, finding motivation, dealing with large overwhelming tasks, finding the best time to work on creativity and best time for low level tasks, (5:47)
Where's Your Frog? - create a visual reminder that will help you to make instant progress on jobs you are delaying
The Paper Mountain - diagnosing the severity of your paperwork problem, processing your paperwork in a logical, methodical manner, deferring tasks for later, a place for everything and everything in it's place, prioritisation matrix revisited, paper or electronic, using a 3D calendar for paper storage, questioning the need for paperwork. (13:03)
Dealing With Email - Defining email, Understanding the purpose of your inbox, a method of processing email, creating an email schedule, learning to make us of the archive, mastering search terms, considering email notifications, create and implement an email policy. (10:43)
The Email Challenge - achieving Inbox Zero, putting theory into practice.
An Email Policy - implementing a simple easy to use policy for a cohesive understanding of how email should be used in your organisation
Strategies To Speed Up
Las Vegas Moments - Preventing time from leaking, creating regular reminders, removing the guesswork, breaking the rules on your terms, speeding up, 25 on 5 off. (5:25)
The Pomodoro Technique - recognising your fallibility when estimating periods of time, delegating responsibility for timekeeping to a buzzer
Be A Model Communicator - recognising how poor communication wastes time and causes confusion, identifying where the confusion lies, following steps for conveying information clearly, clarifying your message, asking precisely what action is required, providing relevant and timely detail, adding any further evidence required, listing where the model can be used. (6:25)
Keeping On Top Of It All
Two Lumberjacks - a story to help you reflect, finding time to prepare and ready yourself, a question that could make all the difference. (5:06)
Tracking Time - Getting an overview of how you spend your hours is a great starting point for using that time more efficiently, and allocating time to things you're currently missing out on
Time Flies
We've Come So Far - recapping the course contents and the different strategies for improving Time Management. (1:31)
Further Reading - Iain recommends his top five books about Time Management.
Next Steps
Next Steps - where do you go from here, booking Iain to come to your school
Certificate Of Completion - download and print your certificate showing that you have completed this course
A Brief Welcome From Iain - an overview of what we'll be covering together
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