Time Management Training Course Materials

This time management training materials toolkit gives trainers and HR teams everything needed to run a structured 1-day workshop focused on productivity and prioritization. It comes with editable slides, trainer notes, a participant workbook, and practical exercises covering goal setting, prioritization, and overcoming procrastination.

• Guide participants to map how they spend their time and understand what’s draining it
• Lead discussions and activities to help them decide what needs doing now, later, or not at all
• Show how to turn unclear priorities into a simple, workable plan that participants can apply straight away
• Help participants understand how to work out what causes distractions, and ways to re-focus

Examples from The Time Management Training Materials

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Key Topics Covered in These Time Management Materials

As a trainer, you can use this toolkit to guide participants through these topics that help them understand the reasons why time management issues occur and techniques for overcoming time issues.

• How participants currently use their time during a typical workday
• What influences prioritization, and how to turn this into something clear and workable
• Using better time management to reduce stress
• Dealing with common interruptions, distractions, and low-value tasks

Format & Flexibility: All materials are provided in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and PDF formats, so you can easily edit, customize, and deliver professional training tailored to your organization or clients.

Learning Outcomes

Using this toolkit, you will help participants learn to:

• Have a better understanding of how they spend their time and where it can be better used
• Understand the best way to prioritize their time and make better decisions
• Create SMART goals and make better use of their time
• Deal better with common daily interruptions, such as constant email checking
• Find ways to push tasks that otherwise get delayed
• Use time in such a way that they feel less stressed, and where time feels more manageable

Who Are These Time Management Training Course Materials For?

The materials are designed for anyone who needs to provide time management and prioritization training, such as freelance or workplace trainers, facilitators, HR teams, and consultants. These materials mean that you can run a time management session without the need to build content from scratch.

For buyers:

• Trainers delivering soft skills or personal effectiveness workshops who want to include time management and prioritization
• HR teams who wish to improve workplace productivity, employee well-being, and engagement
• L&D professionals and consultants who are interested in running workshops on time management
• Freelance trainers looking to provide workshops to the wider public on time management skills (you can adapt the workplace examples to suit your audience)
• College and university instructors delivering study skills, employability, or personal effectiveness programs

For participants you’ll be training:

• Managers and team leaders who can benefit from better managing competing priorities and time demands
• Employees to improve their well-being, i.e., because they feel overloaded or struggle with focus
• Teams working in fast-paced and ever-changing environments where interruptions are common
• Anyone looking to organize their time better for a better work-life balance
• Students looking to improve their time management, prioritization, and study skills

Suggested Workshop Format & Delivery Options

This toolkit is designed to run as a 1-day workshop, but you can break the content down if you need to.

• Most commonly delivered as a full-day session
• Use for trainer-led sessions with group activities, discussion, and practical exercises included
• The training materials include a PDF on how to run a session using the materials virtually.

Includes everything a trainer needs to deliver a professional 1-day time management workshop.

The materials are designed to be used immediately, with no additional preparation required beyond familiarizing yourself with the content.

Why Teach Time Management Skills?

Many people start off feeling as though there is plenty of time in the day, but within a couple of hours, the amount of work still to do can quickly start to feel overwhelming.

Emails start coming in, a colleague needs help with something, tasks are piling up, and it starts to feel like nothing is really getting finished.

With digital technologies, we also have updates and messages coming through from our phones, laptops, and other devices, and it becomes harder to decide what actually needs attention first.

These materials are designed to help you guide people to step back, look at how they are using their time, and make small changes that are realistic to stick to.

For trainers, it’s the kind of topic that comes up again and again, whether working with managers, teams, or individuals trying to get a bit more control over their workload.

This is often where the right kind of training starts to make a noticeable difference.

Detailed Curriculum Included in These Time Management Training Materials

This training pack covers time management in depth, and enables you to guide participants through understanding how they use their time, how to make better decisions for prioritization, and techniques for use day-to-day.

Understanding How We Use Time

• Assessing how we currently use our time and how we can improve
• Learning how to set realistic goals and prioritize tasks
• Understanding motivation and focus
• Use techniques to focus on tasks that matter

Setting Priorities and Goals

• Turning tasks into clear priorities based on importance and urgency
• Setting realistic goals that can be followed in practice
• Understanding how priorities shift during the working day

Planning How to Use Time

• Dealing with time wasters
• Overcoming procrastination
• Best practice for using a to-do list
• Better organize oneself and the workspace
• Planning and scheduling tasks

Managing Relations with Others

• When to say no
• The art of delegation
• Managing interruptions at work

Related Training Materials

Time management tends to become more pressing once managers are juggling people’s responsibilities alongside their own workload. This 12-month manager development journey shows when this typically starts to show up.

This time management training kit forms part of our wider range of leadership training materials, designed to support managers and leaders at different stages of their development. Extend this topic with the Wellbeing for Managers training pack bundle.

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Dr Valeria Lo Iacono

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With a PhD in Sociology and 25+ years in education, Valeria has taught at leading universities and worked as a researcher. She specializes in creating professional training materials trusted by organizations like Amazon, Coca-Cola, and Yale - helping trainers deliver impactful sessions in the workplace, education, and beyond.

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