Time Management for Managers
Time Management for Managers
Walid Bergaoui
Time Management for Managers
You run around all day, juggling meetings and requests, and yet by the time evening comes, what really matters hasn't moved forward. As a manager, your time is never quite your own: it gets swallowed up by emergencies, interruptions, and your team's expectations. This training puts you back in control. You'll learn to take back control of your schedule, to tell apart what truly counts from what shouts the loudest, and to turn a day that controls you into a day you steer.
The approach is firmly hands-on and grounded in real-world practice. You start by diagnosing your relationship with time — your time-wasters, your energy peaks, your habits — then you master proven prioritization and planning methods: the Eisenhower matrix, the Pareto principle, time-blocking, task batching. You then learn to protect your time from interruptions, to say no tactfully, to run short and useful meetings, and above all to delegate in order to multiply your impact without carrying everything yourself. Each method is put into practice immediately on your own day-to-day work as a manager.
By the end of the program, you walk away with a time management system that fits you and that lasts: a schedule you control, clear priorities, effective meetings, and a more autonomous team. You don't just gain hours — you gain peace of mind, focus on what truly creates value, and the example of a manager who inspires their team to build a better relationship with time.
What you walk away with
Not just concepts: ready-to-use tools, designed to take root for the long term in your daily work as a manager.
Your typical week under control — a schedule structured by time-blocking that reserves time for what's essential, not just for what's urgent.
Your prioritization matrices — Eisenhower and Pareto applied to your real tasks, so you can decide quickly and without guilt.
Your delegation plan — who does what, how, and with what follow-up, to free up your time and grow your team.
A personalized action plan — your three priority levers and your routines to lock in these new habits starting the very next day.
Program — 10 one-hour sessions
A progressive, practical path: you first diagnose your relationship with time, you master prioritization and planning methods, then you learn to protect your time, to delegate, and to coach your team. Each session applies directly to your daily work as a manager.
Module 1 — Diagnosing your time (sessions 1-2)
1. Your relationship with time — self-diagnosis: where your time really goes, your time-wasters, your beliefs, and your habits as a manager.
2. Energy, rhythms, and emergencies — spotting your focus peaks, understanding the culture of urgency, and setting realistic time goals.
Module 2 — Prioritizing what's essential (sessions 3-4)
3. The Eisenhower matrix — telling the important from the urgent, sorting your tasks, and deciding what to do, schedule, delegate, or drop.
4. Pareto and high-impact tasks — the 80/20 rule: identifying the 20% of actions that produce most of your results.
Module 3 — Planning and organizing (sessions 5-6)
5. Time-blocking and the typical week — building a schedule that reserves slots for what's essential, batching tasks together, and keeping buffers.
6. Lists, to-dos, and digital tools — structuring your tasks (GTD method, the 2-minute rule) and choosing simple tools that last over time.
Module 4 — Protecting your time (sessions 7-8)
7. Interruptions, emails, and focus — managing requests, handling your inbox in time slots, and preserving stretches of deep work.
8. Knowing how to say no and set your limits — declining tactfully, negotiating deadlines, and fighting procrastination without putting yourself in an awkward position.
Module 5 — Multiplying through your team (sessions 9-10)
9. Delegating to save time — what to delegate and to whom, how to hand off a task clearly, and how to follow up without micromanaging.
10. Effective meetings and action plan — short, useful meetings (agenda, duration, decisions), then your personal plan to lock in your new habits for the long term.
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