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Time Management and Personal Productivity
One-day training on managing time, attention and workload
Overview
A one-day course on managing time, attention and workload. Participants audit where their week actually goes, prioritise with the urgent-important matrix, build realistic time-blocked plans, defend attention against interruptions, apply evidence-based tactics for starting stalled work, and practise saying no. The pack gives a trainer scripted speaker notes, a full slide deck, participant workbook, five handouts and two case studies, all editable.
Format. One day. Designed for classroom delivery and adaptable to live online sessions.
Who it is for. Employees, team leaders and managers at any level who control at least part of their own schedule. Suits people new to the subject and experienced staff replacing improvised habits with a deliberate system; no prior study required. Written for trainers, consultancies and corporate L&D teams delivering in person or online.
What delegates take away
- Audit where their working time actually goes and name the main leaks.
- Prioritise tasks using the urgent-important distinction and daily most important tasks.
- Build realistic weekly and daily plans using time blocks, batching and buffers.
- Protect focused attention by managing interruptions, task switching and message checking.
- Apply evidence-based tactics for starting stalled work and matching tasks to energy.
- Decline and renegotiate workload while protecting relationships, and sustain the system with a weekly review.
Course outline
Participants test their beliefs about last week against a reconstructed time audit and identify where their days leak: interruptions, switching, meetings and reactive messaging.
The urgent-important distinction and the priority matrix, applied to each participant's live task list, ending with the daily most-important-tasks method.
The planning fallacy and how to plan around it: weekly before daily planning, time blocking, batching and deliberate slack, applied by building tomorrow's actual plan.
Switching costs, attention residue and interruptions — external and self-inflicted — with practical focus-block design, message batching and a personal interruption defence plan.
Procrastination reframed as mood management rather than laziness, tactics that start stalled work, and matching demanding tasks to daily energy peaks.
Workload as a set of renegotiable agreements: saying no while protecting relationships, practised in trios, plus criteria for declining and improving meetings.
Capture habits and the weekly review that hold everything together, a full case study diagnosis, and each participant's 30-day plan with a named witness.
What is in the kit
Slide deck
48 branded, fully editable PowerPoint slides with facilitator notes on every slide
Trainer notes
Complete facilitator guide: agenda, slide-by-slide delivery notes and guidance
Case studies — two editions
The same case material in international and Gulf settings; pick by audience
Participant workbook
10 in-session exercises with writing space
Handouts
5 complete standalone handouts: worksheets, checklists and scenario sets
Certificates
Attendance and completion certificate templates with the MIZAN seal
Course administration
Feedback form and sign-in sheet
Editions
The license in one sentence
Buy once, deliver the course as often as you like to as many delegates as you like, edit anything, add your own branding — you only may not resell or redistribute the materials themselves. Every download is stamped with your name, tier and order number. Full license terms
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