Training: Optimizing your time to reach your goals

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Optimizing Your Time to Reach Your Goals Training

This time management training gives you the tools to organize your activity around what truly matters. Over a full day, you experiment with proven methods (Eisenhower matrix, Pomodoro, time blocking, Getting Things Done) and apply them to your real situation. A determining skill for any role with a high volume of solicitations and varied responsibilities.

Managing time is choosing what you really do, not multiplying tasks

For collaborators feeling overwhelmed in French speaking Switzerland, this course offers a structured framework to regain control over the agenda. The course relies on individual diagnosis: where does your time really go, what are your traps (interruptions, context switching, procrastination), how to install lasting habits. You walk away with a personal action plan ready for Monday morning.

Participant Profiles

New managers
Confirmed managers and directors

Objectives

Diagnose your current time relationship
Hierarchize tasks according to importance and urgency
Master 4 to 5 organization methods
Limit interruptions and the mental cost of context switching
Install lasting habits aligned with your objectives

Prerequisites

No prerequisites

Course Content

Manage conflicts

Basic reflexes in conflict situations
A general method of handling conflicts
Effectively manage resistance to change

Manage stress

Escape both physical and psychological pressures
Daily stress management tools
Minute relaxation, trigger a reflex relaxation
Work without getting exhausted and recover energy quickly
Your anti-stress program

Manage your time

The real causes of time management problems
The personal dimension of time management
What is really important and urgent
The principles and rules of good time management

Documentation

Digital courseware included

Lab / Exercises

Situation

Public speaking: intervention on a controlled subject in front of the group. Collective debriefing
Animation in anticipation of the next scheduled meeting or to be scheduled with its employees. Collective debriefing

Exercise

Discovering the “hidden origins of conflicts”: identifying one’s natural behavioral attitudes or tendencies that can generate tensions or conflict situations
Self-diagnosis of its restrictive messages and their impact on the perception of stress

Complementary Courses

Eligible Funding

ITTA is a partner of a continuing education fund dedicated to temporary workers. This fund can subsidize your training, provided that you are subject to the “Service Provision” collective labor agreement (CCT) and meet certain conditions, including having worked at least 88 hours in the past 12 months.

Additional Information

Why follow a time management training

Increase in solicitations, ubiquity of digital tools, multiplication of meetings: managing time has become a critical skill. This course offers a structured approach for those who feel they are running, who finish the day exhausted without being sure of having advanced on what is important. The objective is dual: efficiency and serenity.

Diagnose your current time relationship

Optimizing time starts with knowing it. The course offers a personalized diagnosis: time logging exercises, identification of hidden time eaters, recognition of personal traps (perfectionism, urgency addiction, fragmentation). A often revealing first step.

Hierarchize tasks

Not all tasks have the same value. Eisenhower matrix, Pareto, MIT (Most Important Tasks): the course details prioritization frameworks and walks you through them on your own list. You leave with a clear method to handle a list of 30 tasks without panicking.

Master organization methods

Pomodoro, time blocking, batching, GTD: the course covers the most useful methods, with their advantages and limits. You experiment to identify those that suit your role and rhythm. No miracle method, but a personalized combination.

Limit interruptions

An average interruption costs 23 minutes of full focus refocus. The course gives you concrete tactics to handle Teams, emails, walk in colleagues, expanding meetings. A behavioral and tooling approach, often surprising in its results.

Install lasting habits

The trap of training: a temporary boost without lasting change. The course closes with a clear plan to anchor new habits: weekly rituals, monthly reviews, key indicators. With a personalized written commitment.

Practical time management training in Carouge and Le Flon

At ITTA centers in Carouge and Le Flon, this course runs over one day in a small group with a productivity expert. Format with diagnosis, hands on workshops and individual restitution.

Who this course is for

Any collaborator feeling overwhelmed, in position transition, or wanting to gain in personal efficiency. Managers, project leaders, support functions, technical profiles with multitasking. In Geneva and Lausanne, the course welcomes many profiles seeking balance between professional load and quality of life. No specific prerequisite.

Concretely, what will you be able to do at the end

You diagnose your current relation to time with lucidity, hierarchize your tasks by importance and urgency, master four to five organization methods, limit interruptions and install two to three lasting habits. You leave with a personalized action plan ready to apply from the following Monday.

Concrete use cases in business

A manager moving from 60 to 45 weekly hours without losing productivity through rigorous prioritization. A project leader finishing days with accomplished task list instead of overwhelmed feeling. A consultant regaining brain time available for strategic reflection. The course works these situations on real cases.

Articulation with other ITTA courses

This training combines well with delegation (course 14835) for managerial profiles, stress management (course 14770) for regulation dimension, and mind mapping for visual priority organization. Many participants enroll in one of these courses.

Why this course makes a difference in professional environment

Time management is now recognized as critical transversal skill, whose absence is one of the first factors of professional stress and disengagement. Covey works, Allen GTD method, mental load research: methods today have a solid foundation that distinguishes rigorous use from vague injunctions like “better organize”. This training lays the foundations of lasting practice.

Typical cases by your job

A manager finishing days exhausted without progressing on important subjects. A project leader juggling ten files and losing quality. A consultant struggling to protect strategic reflection time. The course adapts exercises to your context with personalized trainer feedback on your time relation and recurring traps.

Time management is not punctual discipline: it works as a habit consolidated over six to twelve weeks of regular practice. The course integrates a progressive anchoring plan with weekly review rituals and adjustment journal, so course gains transform into stable practice.

FAQ Time management training

Are tools used digital or paper?

The course covers both. Each participant chooses the tool that suits them, the methodology being independent of the tool.

Is procrastination addressed?

Yes. The course explores the cognitive and emotional roots of procrastination, then offers concrete tactics: minimum start, splitting, accountability.

Is the course suitable for managers?

Yes, with specific points on managing the team’s time, delegation and meeting load. A frequent profile in our groups.

Is the link with stress addressed?

Yes, time management directly impacts professional stress. The course also offers a stress course for those who wish to go further.

Time management in international and hybrid contexts

The Geneva and Lausanne international landscape combines time zones, hybrid schedules, and high meeting density that compound time management challenges. The course briefly addresses these specific contexts: how to protect deep work time across time zones, how to handle hybrid week rhythms, how to limit meeting overload. Concrete techniques calibrated to international and hybrid realities make the difference between sustainable practice and superficial fixes.

How does the course handle email and message overload?

The course addresses email and message strategies specifically, with batch processing techniques, response time conventions and inbox-zero alternatives adapted to varied work styles.

Are templates and tools provided?

Yes, ready-to-use templates (weekly review, MIT list, time block calendar) are shared in editable formats applicable from day one.

Where do sessions take place?

ITTA has three centers in French speaking Switzerland: in Geneva (Carouge, Route des Jeunes 35), in Lausanne at the Flon (Rue des Cotes de Montbenon 16) and at Lausanne Mon-Repos (Avenue de Mon-repos 24). The training is also available in virtual classroom.