It's About TIME!
5 Steps to True Time Management
Learning Leader's
Tools & Resources
(Illustrative items only,
kits include much more)
Participant's
Tools and Resources
(Illustrative items only)
It's About TIME!
5 Steps to True Time Management
Purposes of this Program
This program:
- Motivates people to appreciate time and the need to manage themselves well
- Shows individuals how to be effective and make good choices of how they will invest their time
- Teaches people how to manage their time, get things done, and enjoy life more at work and at home
Participants Learn:
- The 5 Steps to True Time Management System
- How to apply each step to take control, be effective and get the balance in life they want
- How to keep time in proper perspective and make decisions to manage and spend time wisely
- How to use the 3 Magic Pieces of Paper to manage time and achieve work and personal goals
- How to use the two most powerful techniques for increasing daily effectiveness
- How to choose priorities and say NO to Time Bandits
- 10 simple techniques for working smarter, not harder
- How to clean out clutter that bogs them down
- How to stay focused on high priorities that have the biggest payback at work and in life
Outcomes and Benefits for Participants
- Leave with a proven roadmap for success
- Feel in control, be in control, and be effective Rediscover freedom, flexibility, and balance
- Be proactive; quit reacting to whatever comes your way Make daily progress toward your goals
- Eliminate time bandits and time wasters
- Quit procrastinating and get more done with less stress
- Spend more time doing what is most important and what you want to do
- Learn fast and simple techniques that really work
Half- or Full-day Seminar
This program may be provided as a half-day or full-day interactive seminar or as a series of one to two hour seminars.
Participants can learn the basic principles and methods in about four hours and time beyond this is used to discuss how the techniques apply in specific situations and the action steps individuals will take to implement what they have learned.
Content of this Program
This program teaches participants how to use the 5 Steps to True Time Management system that is presented in the book, It's About TIME! The book comes with the program.
The content of this program follows closely the content of the book, It’s About TIME!
The seminar begins with an introduction to time management and an overview of the 5 Steps in the book. Several exercises are used here to illustrate the importance of time and what we must do to manage ourselves while time passes.
The main core of the course is the Five Steps and related content as summarized below:
Step 1: Make Choices and Set Goals
This step includes learning activities that teach participants how to:
- Set Time Goals with a 1-2-3 Approach
- Stop and Think About What You Really Want and What Matters Most
- Set Priorities and Make Decisions
- Turn Your Decisions into Specific Goals
- The individual and small group exercises during this step include identifying time goals and priorities and setting specific goals.
Step 2: Know Where Your Time Goes
This step includes learning activities that teach participants how to analyze time documented by using a Time Log to identify opportunities for eliminating time wasters and getting more done in the time allotted.
Step 3: Plan Your Weeks
This step includes learning activities and exercises that teach participants how to:
- Transform goals into weekly and daily plans.
- Develop weekly plans
- Develop daily goals and plans to accomplish "must do" task.
Participants prepare and review a weekly plan using the Weekly Planning Form for the week following the program.
Step 4: Make Each Day Count
This step includes learning activities and exercises that teach participants how to say no, set priorities, make each day effective, focus to get results, and prepare and review a daily plan using the Thunderbolt Card tool.
Step 5: Work Smarter
This step includes learning activities and exercises that teach participants how to develop good habits and systems for being effective. Participants learn how to use systematic approaches for processing email, managing meetings, and recurring tasks pertinent to their jobs. topics.
Examples for organizations that have provded this program to associates: Allstate Insurance, BlueCross Blue Shield, Freddie Mac, Marriott, McDonald’s, and the IRS.
“Awesome presentation. It showed me I can be in control of my time and improve the quality of my life at work and home if I make the effort and implement the techniques I learned. It was the best program with the best presenter I’ve ever taken!”
10 Person Starter Kit—
Your Initial Investment
The minimum initial purchase for each of our learning seminars is a 10-person Starter Kit*.
The Starter Kit includes one Learning Leader Facilitation Kit and 10 Participant Kits. After one Starter Kit is purchased, additional Facilitator Kits and Participant Kits may be purchased for the same organization in any quantities desired.
The general content of our Starter Kits is described on this page. There are additional content-specific items in each kit and these depend upon the program.
We would be happy to send you detailed information on any program you like.
Please Note: We offer a 100% replacement guarantee for our items in the event they arrive damaged or do not work properly (in the event of software discs.)
Our Teach-It-Yourself Resource Tools, related Participant Kits, books, posters, and other items are not returnable.
We recommend that potential buyers purchase the book that the course is based on to evaluate course content as the courses we offer track the content that is in the books.
Learning Leader Facilitation Kits
For each program, we offer the same high quality materials we have used for our own seminars. The materials vary from program to program depending upon the content, however we provide certain key materials for every one of our programs. These include a three-ring binder with the following items:
- Facilitator Guides for Learning Leaders - these guides are separately bound documents you can take out of the binder and use as a cookbook like tool for guidance and instruction in teaching the course.
The Facilitation Guides provide step-by-step instructions for what to do and say to present the material.
- Unique layout: The Facilitator Guides are laid out to show the script and instructions for teaching each segment of the program along with small images of the Power Point slides to be used and the respective pages from the Participant Guides that participants will be looking at. This approach makes it simple to teach our programs.
- Complete word-by-word scripts are provided as suggestions for what to say and do to present the material and facilitate the program
- Power Point® presentation slides. These are not your typical Power Point slides with lots of words and bulleted text.
While we provide many slides to aid in presentation, there is no chance of "death by Power Point" with our programs. Our slides are designed with impactful images that bring the concepts to life and make memorable impressions so that people stay focused on the right points and remember what they are learning.
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- Suggested Timetables and Planning Worksheets to layout your program to suit your timetable and objectives
- Summary of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). This is a summary of the most common questions people have had about what to do and how to do it to teach our programs.
- Facilitation Tip Sheet -- provides quick tips for success.
- Telephone consultation for advice and suggestions for facilitating group learning sessions with these materials
Participant Kits
As with the Learning Leader Tools, for participants we offer the same high quality materials we use for our own seminars.
The materials for participants vary from program to program depending upon the content, however we provide certain key materials for every one of our programs. These include:
- Learning Guides for participants - these are full-color guides with exercises, tips, reminders, and teaching stories
- Reference, resource, and implementation tools for participants that include laminated reminder cards, buttons, and other implementation aids and reminders
- Books or Reference Guides on each topic that contain supplemental material and serve as ready references for self-study and follow-on learning
Want More Information About our Kits and Pricing?
It Is Easy to Request More Information
For competitive reasons, we do not provide specific pricing and actual samples of our program resources on our web site.
We would be happy to email you a comprehensive PDF Summary of the Contents of the Starter Kit for individuals that want to facilitate a learning program on one of our topics for their associates.
We would be happy to provide pricing information, too.
To request more information just give us a call or send us an email. Please provide answers to these questions so we may provide you with the information that will be most helpful to you.
- What is your name and position and contact information?
- What is the name of your organization?
- What are the roles of the people you are thinking about for our programs?
- What program or programs would like to learn more about?
We are not a high pressure sales organization. You may request this information without any obligation or pressure to purchase.Third-Party Training Organizations Please Note
Presently, we offer our materials only to end-user organizations for developing their employees and students. While we currently do not offer our materials to third-party trainers, we are considering this option for well-established firms with an ongoing business. If this is your interest, please call or send us an email describing your organization and interest.
