Tick tock. Tick tock. These days you’re all asked to do more with less time to do it in. PLA’s new digital training tool, “Time Flies…But Where?” provides all the pieces you need to lead a day-long time management training session for library staff. Make time for this!

Time Flies…But Where? Time Management Tips and Tools is one of a series of electronic publications in the Public Library Association’s Train the Trainer Series. Each publication includes all of the materials needed to present a one day (4-4.5 hour) training program for library staff members. The materials include masters for the handouts that will be distributed to the training participants, a PowerPoint presentation to be used by the trainer during the program, a detailed script for the training program, an evaluation form, and a training manual.

If you ask library staff members about their jobs, you will always hear that they have more work than they can ever accomplish. Staff time constraints will become more challenging in the next several years as library budgets remain flat or decline, the number of staff decrease, and the workload continues to increase. This training program has been designed to provide all levels of library staff with the information and skills they need to identify the major time problems in their lives and to manage those problems more effectively. This training program will help participants to:

*Evaluate the balance between work life and personal life, and identify needed changes
*Understand how work habits and personality affect time management choices
*Identify and describe six of the most common time management challenges
*Identify their own personal time management challenges and determine which causes the most problems
*Use a number of different tips and tools to address each of their major time challenges
*Develop a personal plan addressing their most significant and harmful time management challenges

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