| If we think the last few years have been difficult in | | | | those without the adequate time management training |
| terms of time management and using our time | | | | were those who found it more difficult, and often felt |
| management skills to try and create more time and | | | | under pressure. |
| reduce stress levels--- we haven’t seen nothing | | | | Now let’s look at the picture today, already we |
| yet! | | | | believe there are not enough hours in the day to |
| Time management training will be a vital component of | | | | effectively manage our time so as we can achieve |
| everyones personal development over the next | | | | what we need to and want to. What is going to |
| number of years. For the past few years (in the good | | | | happen over the next few years when you are one |
| times) we have all had bosses, family members, | | | | of the lucky ones who has kept their job, but has to |
| subordinates, colleagues and friends competing for our | | | | cover for those who have lost their jobs—will you |
| time. | | | | really be the lucky one, having to work longer hours |
| But just think back, for those of you old enough to | | | | take on more tasks and probably see less and less of |
| remember the last recession, when words like | | | | the family that are important to you? |
| downsizing or rightsizing were at the forefront of | | | | Well the reality is we need to be given the skills to |
| every newspaper. The lucky ones kept their jobs and | | | | manage time effectively over the next number of |
| the not so lucky lost their jobs. | | | | years we need to be trained in time management skills |
| Well the reality was that those that kept their jobs | | | | and effective organisational skills, we need to learn |
| may not have been so lucky for as well as keeping | | | | how to delegate effectively, how to prioritise our tasks, |
| their own jobs they also had to inherit the jobs of | | | | how to know the difference between important and |
| colleagues who were made redundant. More work, | | | | urgent. If not we will not be the lucky ones for keeping |
| longer hours, more responsibility but yet no additional | | | | our jobs but the unlucky ones. |
| time. | | | | Now more than ever we need to have effective time |
| Those who had been on time management courses | | | | management training and attend effective time |
| and learned the time management skills of prioritising, | | | | management training courses to learn the necessary |
| delegating, dealing with interruptions and so on, were | | | | skills to survive the next few years, just in case we |
| obviously better positioned to manage new tasks, but | | | | are the lucky ones. |