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Essentials of Time Management

Boost your productivity, manage your stress, and with the most effective ways to manage your time.

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The Key Issues

Are you a manager working on multiple projects and feeling the weight of endless tasks? You need to learn how to shift your focus from managing time to managing yourself, and set expectations with your key stakeholders to avoid frustration and stress.

Personal
efficiency

Focus and concentration

Multitasking strategies

Key Competences​

Time
management

Managing priorities

Managing
stress

The Right Programme for You

You are a manager working on a lot of projects. You need to learn how to shift your focus from managing time to managing yourself, and set expectations with your key stakeholders to avoid frustration and stress.
 
  • Business Professionals
Specialists, engineers, chemists, technical staff, logistics, commercial positions, project managers etc
  • New Managers
Managers of teams including team leaders with up to 3 years' experience in this role
  • Managers
Managers of teams and departments with more than 3 years' experience in this role
  • Senior Managers
Managers of managers, countries, divisions, regions companies with more than 10 years of senior management experience

Highlights

Pinpoint the things that make you waste too much of your time and learn how to avoid them.

Learn how to set clear expectations with colleagues, customers and your boss and avoid frustration.

Learn, Practice and Use

  • Set and accomplish goals
  • Create priorities and establish realistic boundaries
  • Recognize and deal with time-wasters
  • Improve concentration and efficiency
  • Break indecision and procrastination habits.
  • Use technology to help manage time
  • Create and recharge positive energy
  • Shift your focus from managing time to managing yourself
  • Learn how to use a robust planning process to analyse and review plans
  • Set clear expectations with colleagues, customers and your boss
  • Share your knowledge and challenges with your peers and MCE's highly experienced faculty

Programme Details

Essentials of Time Management is a hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. The programme will be led by an experienced facilitator with former management experience in international companies.

Five Programme Modules

1 | Time Management Is Self Management

  • Shift focus from managing time to managing self
  • Identify typical time wasters
  • Identify personal strengths and development opportunities to control time

2 | Planning for Success

  • Define goals based on your role
  • Establish important and valid priorities
  • Create a realistic and productive schedule
  • Use a robust planning process to analyse and review plans

3 | When “They” Cause the Problem

  • Attend meetings with purpose and add value
  • Set clear expectations with colleagues, customers, and your boss
  • Manage interruptions from others

4 | Concentration, Focus and Organization

  • Build both productivity and efficiency
  • Re-evaluate multitasking strategies
  • Overcome procrastination
  • Manage technological distractions

5 | Creating Boundaries and Balance

  • Prioritize and choose activities to balance life and work
  • Create your own “no” script
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Bettina
Hausmann

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Hausmann

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Hausmann

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Hausmann

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2 days
€1,995
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29 Sep – 30 Sep 2025
Frankfurt
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03 Nov – 04 Nov 2025
4 Sessions
03 Nov, 09:00 – 13:00CET
03 Nov, 14:00 – 18:00CET
04 Nov, 09:00 – 13:00CET
04 Nov, 14:00 – 18:00CET
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29 Sep – 30 Sep 2025
Frankfurt
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Brussels
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03 Nov – 04 Nov 2025
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03 Nov, 09:00 – 13:00CET
03 Nov, 14:00 – 18:00CET
04 Nov, 09:00 – 13:00CET
04 Nov, 14:00 – 18:00CET
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Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

Agata Kulik, Product Manager Special Salts, Jungbunzlauer Ladenburg GmbH, Germany”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

Andreas Armenat, Head of Production, GO Generics & Standard Solutions, Fresenius Kabi AG, Germany

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

Alessandro Foresio, Vice President,
Logic S.p.A., Italy

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

Rosa Karen Schmidt, Senior VP-Assistant, Novo Nordisk, Denmark

Testimonials

"“It is a perfect possibility to connect with people from different industries, who are dealing with the same issues.”

Agata Kulik, Product Manager Special Salts, Jungbunzlauer Ladenburg GmbH, Germany”

“Facilitator, content, tools, methods, room were very good and fitted to the participants and their needs.”

Andreas Armenat, Head of Production, GO Generics & Standard Solutions, Fresenius Kabi AG, Germany

“Very interesting topics, international and multicultural environment. Very professional coach.”

Alessandro Foresio, Vice President,
Logic S.p.A., Italy

“The subjects covered were extremely relevant and gave input to my personal development.”

Rosa Karen Schmidt, Senior VP-Assistant, Novo Nordisk, Denmark

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