Mastering Your Time Management

You start the day with a plan, but emails, meetings, and urgent requests soon take over. By the afternoon, your to-do list is untouched, and the pressure is building. It feels like there’s never enough time to get everything done.

Across workplaces, professionals face similar challenges. Competing demands, constant interruptions, and the pressure to multitask make it difficult to focus on meaningful work. What often gets overlooked is the role our habits play and how we respond to interruptions, plan our days, or prioritize tasks. Over time, these patterns can make us feel reactive instead of in control. Studies show that after a single distraction, refocusing can take more than 20 minutes, adding up to hours of lost productivity each week.

This workshop offers practical tools to help you manage your time more effectively and shift the habits that are holding you back. You’ll explore proven strategies like setting realistic goals and developing routines that support your priorities. You’ll also reflect on what drives your current behaviours and learn how to make small changes that add up to meaningful improvements.

By the end of this session, you’ll have a system for managing your workload, reducing stress, and creating better balance in your day. You’ll walk away with strategies to set priorities, manage distractions, and approach your work with more purpose and clarity.

What You Will Learn
What You Will Learn
  • Recognize how habits affect productivity and develop better time management skills.
  • Set priorities and realistic goals to focus on what matters most.
  • Use planning and scheduling techniques to stay organized and meet deadlines.
  • Reduce distractions and interruptions to stay on track.
  • Manage emails, calls, and information effectively to avoid overload.
  • Identify and eliminate time-wasting habits to improve efficiency.
  • Track your productivity and adjust your approach to improve how you use your time.
Who Should Attend

This workshop is designed for professionals who want to take control of their time and reduce the overwhelm of constant demands. Whether juggling multiple priorities, managing frequent interruptions, or simply looking to improve your day-to-day planning, this session will provide tools to help you focus and follow through.

You should attend if you

  • End the day feeling like you were busy but didn’t get to what mattered most
  • Struggle to stay on top of competing deadlines, tasks, and requests
  • Find it hard to manage distractions or maintain focus for long stretches
  • Want to feel more in control of your schedule and your energy
  • Need a more structured approach to goal-setting, task management, and daily planning
  • Work in a fast-paced environment where effective time management is essential to success

After this session, you’ll be able to approach your workday with more clarity and control. You’ll have tools to plan with purpose, manage competing demands, and make better use of your time without feeling pulled in every direction.

Workshop Format

This session invites you to step back from your daily routine and take an honest look at how you manage your time. You’ll explore your habits, test out new planning tools, and collaborate with others to tackle common challenges. The workshop combines personal reflection, hands-on practice, and group conversation so you can experiment with different strategies and build a system that fits your work and life.

You’ll also receive a workbook filled with planning resources, self-assessment checklists, and progress tracking sheets to use long after the workshop ends.

Workshop activities include

  • Assessing your time use and identifying habits and barriers to productivity
  • Identifying your priorities to support more informed time management decisions
  • Setting goals and evaluating time use to support long-term achievement
  • Prioritizing tasks using structured exercises
  • Exploring delegation opportunities and uncovering barriers to effective delegation
  • Identifying and assessing interruptions to develop strategies to maintain focus
  • Discussing time management challenges and solutions in groups
  • Creating a personal action plan