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Working Smarter

Why This Training?

The Working Smarter training will enable you to you can take a step back and take a fresh look at how you can become more efficient, improve your time management skills and have a healthier work-life balance.

At the end of the workshop you will be able to:

  • get yourself organised and working well
  • implement effective methods for being more productive
  • improve efficiency and create more balance in your life.

"A very useful course with an unclouded way of looking at things and offering simple & easy to implement solutions." - Madeline Anderson, PSD Administrator.

Workshop content

  • How to cope with too much work
    - Defining and tackling genuine overwork
  • Who's to blame - not me
    - Don't externalise your problems
  • Avoid drowning in paperwork & clutter
    - Creating order out of chaos
  • Understanding inner drives and desires
    - Insights into personal motivation
  • Harnessing technology
    - Taking control of e-mail and using technology as an ally
  • Can you perform well all day?
    - Keeping in time with your body clock
  • How to complete all your projects
    - Controlling 'butterfly behaviour'
  • Developing habits that save time
    - Useful as opposed to stultifying routines
  • Controlling your day
    - Making realistic time plans
  • How to deal with procrastination and improve decisiveness
    - Narrowing the gap between thought and action

"Peter's approach has helped my focus. I feel more confident that efforts to become more organised will work". Kelly Moller, Trainer.

"I have come away from the course with a better understanding about the way I work and how I can enhance that to be more efective. I have a number of tools and techniques which I am now keen to apply". Emma Curtis, Performance Improvement Officer.

Course presenter - Peter Delves MCIPD

Your Course Presenter Peter is a Warwickshire-based training consultant, specialising in the areas of stress management, time management, negotiating, influencing and conflict. His clients include Warwickshire County Council, University of Warwick, Coventry University, Ericsson Intracom Ltd. and Leicester City Council. Peter is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development and brings a depth of knowledge to his workshops, which have a reputation for being highly participative, thought-provoking and fun.

How to book a course

Our corporate courses are commissioned by organisations for "in-house" training. The course calendar gives details of our open courses only. If you would like a quote for delivering this course in house, please feel free to email us or call (01926) 856746.