Why is this important?

Business today is highly competitive and all executives and managers need to improve their own, and their employees', productivity and performance. How we use our time is a critical skill if we are to consistently deliver the business strategy and results in the workplace, or indeed, achieve what we want to in our life.

How many of your employees understand the fundamentals of effective time management? We consistently find that our clients' employees are ineffective at managing their time and this applies equally to executives and managers as new entrants. Have you thought about the cost of poor time management in your company caused by:

• the failure to deliver projects on time and within budget
• high levels of employee stress, absenteeism and turnover
• poor risk management on business critical issues
• dissatisfied customers who go elsewhere
• loss of profit due to poor workplace performance

How O" can help you

Many time management 'systems' offered in the market as solutions to time management problems today are complex and time consuming to use. If you are not careful, you can spend all of your time planning and organising your work and end up not delivering anything! O" considers the core competency of managing time to be a critical skill that anyone can be coached on. We teach fundamental principles to time management that anyone can learn in a few coaching sessions. These can be headlined as learning the ability to:

• Distinguish projects from activities and tasks
• Prioritise business critical projects and activities over others
• Focus on those key, business critical activities and tasks
• Communicate articulately first time, every time
• Delegate or delete lower priority activities and tasks
• Schedule your time for delivering on the business critical activities

O"s approach to time management coaching is to help your key staff understand the fundamental principles of good time management and to provide them with a small number of key techniques to instantly improve their time management skills. We then support them as they change their time management behaviour and helps them resolve the underlying psychological issues to such things as procrastination and perfectionism. This ensures that their new time management strategies are long lasting and sustained over time.

The benefits to you

Developing your key employees' time management skills will produce a rapid return on your investment. Your employees will be more productive and more likely to complete tasks and projects on time. You will save many thousands of pounds on improved operating efficiencies by reducing wasted time spent on trivia, non-productive meetings and inappropriate travel.

Your employees will be more focused on the tasks that actually deliver your corporate strategy and generate profit. They will gain confidence and be more motivated as they see the results of their efforts. Absenteeism and staff turnover may also reduce as a result of this increased efficiency and your employees' gaining a sense of control over their work.

Have you calculated how much money your business loses through poor time management?

Can you say with certainty that all of your meetings are effective and that your projects are completed on time?

Is everyone in your organisation using their time effectively?

If you have answered "no" to any of the above questions, contact Robin Johnson or Philip Perry at O" Consulting on 0845 260 7700