Brilliant Time Management- Taking Control of your Work Day

Name: Brilliant Time Management- Taking Control of your Work Day
Rating: 5.0 (3 reviews)

Leadership and Management Training from an International Consultant with 30 years' experience - Vital People Skills

Created byTony Hunt MA

Last updated 5/2026

English

What you'll learn

EIGHT main powerful learning objectives. Plus, our Quizzes and cleverly designed Assignments will make you think differently about how you use your Time!
1. Check your HABITS and prioritize them correctly. Make Assertive choices! Protect your most valuable time in the day for what truly matters to you.
2. 'Ring Fence' important Time slots. Define, then use your PRIME and DOWN Time effectively. Learn about 'RECOVERY TIME' and 'SRT' (strategic reserve time)
3. PAPERWORK? Brilliant ways of making you more efficient and more effective. Also, check how clear your desk is. Explore 'VIRTUAL DESK'. Will it work for you?
4. 'THE PARETO PRINCIPLE' will help inform your choices. It works for me every day - let it work for you! Assertive choices enhance your credibility with others
5. A powerful email style strengthens you - a poor email style diminishes you. Share strong style guidelines and quickly enhance others' perception of you
6. DELEGATION - The best TIME SAVER of all! These techniques define a powerful managerial style, but they also empower your colleagues to work more creatively
7. Create a 'TIME VOCABULARY' with simple-to-understand PROJECT MANAGEMENT terms. These will help you to concentrate your focus on longer, more complex projects
8. MEETINGS TOO LONG? Introduce our professional MEETING PLAN FORMAT and reduce their length by up to 50%. Your colleagues will love attending your meetings
Our QUIZ questions reinforce your learning and allow for discussion. Reflect on the choices you make - Do you have any second thoughts now? What might change?
Our carefully designed ASSIGNMENTS encourage you to use your new expertise. TRANSFORM the way your colleagues perceive you, produce better outcomes for everyone

Course content

1 section • 7 lectures • 2h 15m total length

Taking Control of the Time in Your Life16:28
Let's set a target - have this programme make a real difference to your habitual behaviour
A reality check - what we do each day
A look at a Time Log - can you keep one for a couple of days?
Is there a holistic dimension to Time Management
All Time is not of the same value
An introduction to the Time terms that we will use
A Quiz focused on your present behaviour
Three Assignments for you to get your Change underway
Your Office or Working Environment25:38
Getting it done - but think differently
Managing interruptions
An introduction to Assertiveness
Handle your incoming email more effectively
Where do you sit relative to the main thoroughfare of your workspace?
An introduction to Mr Pareto and his Principle - how does it apply to you?
Is Stephen Covey's Priority Matrix helpful to you?
'Ring Fence' a period of your Prime Time
Quiz - can you discuss the questions with your colleagues?
Assignments - Six suggestions to help you break some of your less efficient habits
Managing Yourself20:18
Calendar and Diary Management
How to schedule your working day
Organising your working space - have you tried 'virtual desk'?
A plague of emails
Create a set of email protocols
'Weed' your files
Speak, don't write
Assignments - three important assignments, including serious questions about how you see your world
Telephone Discipline15:54
Saving real Time by developing a disciplined approach towards business telephone calls
Taking calls differently
Making calls differently
A strategy for Ruling the Telephone
The assertive model for saying 'No'
Quiz - with special rules :)
Assignments - invite your line manager to participate in these
Working with Other People30:48
People who can save you Time
Acquiring the new skills needed to handle people effectively
The Communication Percentages
Have you been taught how to write emails?
Using email professionally
Delegation - the most important Time Management tool of all!
Process and Result - where should you be?
Breaking the Chain - and why you must do it
Quiz - the strategic choices that you make
Three Assignments - the main aspects of developing our communication skills
Running Effective meetings - Saving Time for Everyone11:22
Let's save at least 50% of the Time you spend in meetings
Good meetings are great - and this is why
A Five-Stage meeting plan format - see if it works!
The true cost of your meetings
Minutes - are you the Minute taker?
Meetings plus - suggestions to reduce the length of your meetings
Three Assignments concluding with an important personal action plan
Time-Saving Short Cuts - Using the Tools of Project Management15:03
Time-saving short cuts
The Inverse Laws of project management
IPEC - the project life cycle
The 'Triple Constraints' and how they apply to you
Think about using a PERT chart - and certainly bring a Gantt chart into everyday use
Additional Project Management concepts that will make you more effective
What do good Time managers do - what are their new habits?
Your final Assignments

Requirements

No prerequisites. THIS PROGRAM IS TOO IMPORTANT to exclude anyone. Think about it this way. Do you wish to SUCCEED, and do you wish to be more EFFICIENT and more EFFECTIVE? You do? Then this course is ideal for you!

Description

This programme is from 'The Brilliant Suite' - and contains the most important skillsets for intending and experienced managers. It's also an opportunity for senior managers to test themselves safely by using this course for Reflective Practice.

June 2026: Get Artificial Intelligence (AI) working for you - not against you! Develop the people skills that AI can't handle and protect your future!

Recently, a set of 110 of these courses was rolled out to a UK company.

This is the best there is! Brilliantly successful on other platforms like Lecturio and UK Webinars, where evaluations consistently average 9.0 on a 10-point scale! Perfect for individual study, and even more valuable when you roll it out to your teams.

Our target? Saving you up to four weeks of real time in your working year!

Twenty-five years of managerial experience - forged into powerful tools for you to use today! This course has been taught LIVE in over twenty countries and to thousands of delegates.

This course focuses on your personal and professional development. Use it to Gain Control of your working day by modifying your daily behavior, and by cleverly influencing the behavior of those around you. Having control enhances your well-being and reduces the everyday stress in your life - and of those around you.

We'll set two targets:

Your Credibility defines your professionalism. When you are seen as credible, your colleagues will believe in you, but without credibility, nobody can believe in you. Work with me to implement the vital skills that will enhance your professionalism. I'll offer you well-researched strategies, tactics, and tips - all based on real-world experience. I'll introduce you to powerful, assertive ways of dealing with people - techniques that will make your colleagues notice you. They'll notice you making more informed choices and taking better decisions. This course will also boost your own self-confidence and well-being as you notice those around you learn to trust in your credibility - and, as the program moves at a lively pace, I think you'll enjoy the experience too! And please remember this: either when you're looking for a new position or seeking internal promotion, your credibility is the single most important quality that prospective employers and senior people need to see (ref: The Leadership Challenge - Kouzes and Posner).
The second - equally important target - is to SAVE YOU TIME. Nobody else but you can do this. People always want more from you than you are able to give. Let's get control of this too.

This is what you will learn to help achieve these two targets:

Using a simple Time Log you'll analyze what you really do all day - you'll be amazed! Really? Is this how you want to spend your time?
Let me show you the slight changes in your daily habits that can make a huge difference to your effectiveness
Assertive Prioritization - Make sure it's you, not others, who choose where and how you spend your time
Control your diary by 'ring fencing' time slots
Are you still doing paperwork and filing? Use these simple ideas to become more efficient and effective
The 'Pareto Principle' is an amazing tool. Use it to accurately prioritize what you do each day, and to keep track of the vital tasks that define your importance to other people
Powerful email protocols further strengthen your professional credibility! With that credibility comes greater effectiveness, as people respond better to you
Delegation - is absolutely the best time saver of all. Get it right! Our clever techniques save you lots of time and when used creatively, they motivate others to succeed - a genuine win/win!
Too many meetings? Control them with our five-stage meeting plan format. This brilliant method will reduce their length by at least 50% - and have people wanting to attend your meetings!
Create a 'Time Vocabulary' using simple-to-understand Project Management tools
Reduce the stress in your life as your ability to make informed choices increases your own sense of self-esteem
We offer you dozens of tips and suggestions for immediate use, and you can track your progress with our carefully developed Quiz questions.

Challenging assignments encourage you to alter the way you do things. And there's more! Reduce your stress levels, enhance your effectiveness, and create a greater sense of overall well-being. Embrace the future!

Who this course is for:

This Time Management program is for 'EVERYONE' - because EVERYONE CAN BENEFIT FROM IT. You will learn to VALUE your TIME! If you are new to the world of work, you will establish working habits and protocols that will underpin your working life. If you are a manager or a team leader, you will understand your true priorities, and by using tools that we provide, you will be able to delegate many tasks successfully. If you are a business owner, the 'reflective practice' that is available from this course can take you right back to basics and reorientate your thinking.