Time management seminars can help you with a core business issue: keeping employees motivated and on task. Many business owners consider time management a significant topic as efficiency affects your highest budget item, salaries.

A time management seminar, whether it be at a conference, on-site or through self-study, can prove to be beneficial as your employees learn how to increase results and maximize their time. Most of the training will include ways to plan and prioritize work as well as how to set goals and achieve them.

Consider the following seminar information:

1. A time management seminar can be a win-win for both employee and employer. The employee can benefit by excelling in their career while the employer benefits from better productivity.

2. Time management seminars should stress that increased productivity shouldn't result in longer working hours but getting more done with the hours in a day.

3. Time management seminars should also focus on how an employer can accommodate for lifestyle issues or changes in information technology to better the workplace.

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Attend a time management seminar

A seminar in a distant city may seem like the most costly option when you figure in the conference fee, lodging and meals, but it may be beneficial to send a few key individuals in your organization. Those workers can then come back and share information they've learned from the seminar with others.

I recommend: In cities across the country and even into Canada, the Time Management Training Institute offers a number of time management seminars. Find a time management or organization skills seminar in your area from National Seminars Group.

Offer a time management seminar on-site

Another option would be to invite time management speakers to your business. The costs to you would include the speaker's fee and most likely any travel arrangements made for that person. However, an on-site seminar would be beneficial to a wider range of employees who could attend. You could even make the training mandatory.

I recommend: SkillPath can customize an on-site training to fit your employee's individual needs. The Productivity Institute offers on-site time management and personal productivity seminars.

Promote time management seminars via alternative learning

If you don't have the funds to send employees to a conference or to bring a speaker to you, consider supplying books, audio tapes and other materials for your employees to use. There are other options, too, such as teleconferences, coaching and webinars that you may find helpful.

I recommend: David Allen & Co. offers personal telecoaching on the topic "Getting Things Done." Check out the books and self-study options on time management from American Management Association.

Tips & Tactics

Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide

• •  Organizational skills are often a key component to a time management seminar as well. If you have employees who miss appointments or have a disorganized work space, they may benefit the most from attending a time management seminar.