A practical program to improve time management in your work, professional and personal life.
Chinese proverb.
This program offers a practical, systematic and unconventional approach to time management. It is not limited to a list of tips; it helps participants understand how they use their time, where they lose it, how they can reorganize it and how they can turn it into an ally for better results.
Online or in person, on the indicated dates.
6 classes of 2.5 hours each.
Also available for closed groups within companies or organizations.
Study Plan
When it comes to time management, lists of tips abound, but a systematic treatment of such an everyday and important issue is often missing. This course addresses time management not only in work tasks but also in personal life.
The value of time and how it is managed is not experienced the same way in every culture. That is why this program looks at the subject through its own lens, especially from cultural realities where these skills have often not been taught or trained systematically.
Time is an everyday resource, and precisely because it is everyday, it tends to be underestimated. Yet failing to approach it with method causes daily headaches, unproductiveness, burnout and the feeling of always running behind your obligations.
The content is presented in an unconventional way, seeking not only to spark interest but also to prompt an honest recognition of what happens to us every day: habits, waste, false urgencies, disorder, procrastination and ways of acting whose consequences we feel, even though we often do not know their causes.
It is a very practical course with immediate application, designed to give participants tools whose results can be verified. Its value lies in combining honest reflection with concrete tools that can influence, from day one, the way you work, decide, organize and live.
Training in time management matters because it is directly related to one of the most important human activities: doing. Doing at work, in your profession, in family relationships, in leisure and, ultimately, throughout life.
Work Plan | Focus of Each Class
This course is designed to prompt deep reflection on how we use our time and how we could use it better. Not out of perfectionism, but because time is a demanding resource, independent of our wishes, and if we treat it as an enemy we end up suffering the consequences.
Managing time can be compared to sailing. In a storm and against the wind, the results will be worrying. That is why you need to learn the direction, follow a route and develop habits that turn time into an ally.
The program helps participants change their habits. Many of those habits were adopted so naturally that it is hard to recognize when they are harmful. The goal is not only to reflect, but to achieve a real change in the way time is conceived and managed.
A useful image for understanding its importance is the story of the bank that credits your account with 86,400 dollars every morning. That balance cannot be accumulated, does not carry over to the next day and is lost if it is not invested. In the same way, every day we have 86,400 seconds that cannot be saved.
Everyone, regardless of social position, profession, age or condition, shares exactly 24 hours a day. The difference lies in how each person decides to manage that resource.
Questions to Diagnose Our Relationship with Time
The course invites you to honestly review questions such as these:
- Do you feel you never have enough time?
- Do you feel you have too much to do?
- Do you feel overwhelmed by everything happening at the office?
- Do you feel that most of the time you are buried under piles of paperwork or backlogged tasks?
- Would you like more time than you have to do what you want?
- Do you often work overtime, at night or on weekends to catch up?
- Do you get tense about what you cannot get done?
- Are you unable to focus on long-term improvement because you are caught up in constant crises?
- Do you wonder whether you are really achieving what you want in your work and in your life?
- Would you like better results for the time and effort you invest?
- Would you like to rest or take vacations more often?
Class Plan
The course is structured around progressive, consecutive lessons aimed at diagnosing, understanding, reorganizing and improving the participant’s relationship with time.
1. Effective Time Management and Personal Diagnosis
- Developing the notion of effective time management.
- Diagnosing how we currently use our time.
- A personal snapshot of how you use your time.
- Detecting leaks, waste and unproductive spaces.
- Identifying habits that affect day-to-day organization.
2. General Principles, Priorities and Urgencies
- Analysis of the general principles of time management.
- The difference between real priorities and apparent urgencies.
- Reviewing actions and tasks considered priorities.
- Reorganizing time according to importance, impact and need.
- Understanding how poorly managed urgencies take over the agenda.
3. Methods for Effective Time Management
- Introduction to concrete methods of efficient management.
- Analysis of the generations of time management.
- Developing time management skills.
- Reviewing “how” we currently do things.
- Seeking greater effectiveness in tasks, decisions and habits.
4. Time Eaters, Time Thieves and Procrastination
- Detailed identification of time eaters or time destroyers.
- Analysis of positive and negative factors in daily management.
- Recognizing habits that consume time without creating value.
- Reducing or eliminating time thieves.
- Forms of procrastination and ways to control it.
5. Methodological Changes for More Effective Management
- Conclusions aimed at effective time management.
- Identifying errors found during the process.
- Applying improvement formulas.
- Methodological changes to organize your personal and professional agenda.
- Building more productive and sustainable habits.
6. Practical Integration and Immediate Application
- Integrating what was learned in the course.
- Immediate application to the participant’s work and personal reality.
- Designing new time management routines.
- Reviewing results and making practical adjustments.
- Building a more conscious relationship with time as a resource.
Who Is It For?
It is for everyone. It is not a trend but a necessary skill for anyone who lives in society. Managing time is a capability that runs through work, professional, family and personal life.
Everyone is called to manage time just as they are destined to live. As has rightly been said, managing time is learning to live.
The course helps you understand the benefits of managing this resource better and, above all, doing so more consciously as the first step toward better results.
Additional Tools
Each course is made up of practical tools that participants can apply to their own reality from the very beginning.
- TED talks.
- In-depth articles.
- Worksheets.
- Supplementary videos.
- Resources to broaden the practical base of each topic covered.
A Program to Make Time Your Ally
This program lets you review how you use one of the scarcest and most decisive resources in life. The goal is not to live under more pressure or fill your agenda even more, but to learn to invest time better, reduce waste, change habits and build a freer, more conscious and more productive relationship with something that can never be recovered.
