Managing My Time as a Leader

Learning Level: Manager
Format: Half-Day (3hr)
Delivery: Virtual
Online

Time isn’t your problem. Where you focus it is. With constant demands, meetings and shifting priorities, it’s easy for contact centre leaders to get stuck in reactive mode. This highly practical session helps you step back, take control and lead with intent by focusing on what actually matters. Rather than doing more, you’ll learn how to work deliberately, creating space for strategic thinking, people leadership and better results.

In a contact centre, the day rarely unfolds as planned. Escalations demand immediate attention, service levels fluctuate and the pressure to deliver never lets up. It becomes easy to default to firefighting, reacting to what is loudest rather than what matters most. Over time, this can pull you away from your leadership role and limit your ability to create a climate of success for your team.

This learning experience challenges that cycle by helping you pause, reset and take control of how you show up every day. Through a coaching driven, human centred approach, you will explore where your time and energy are really going and how that aligns with your leadership priorities. You will work through practical tools and realistic contact centre scenarios to help you manage escalations with confidence, stay visible during peak pressure and balance operational delivery with leading your people.

You will leave with more than awareness. You will build a clear, grounded action plan that reflects your contact centre environment and supports consistent, focused leadership. The result is not just better time management, but stronger decision making, clearer priorities and the ability to engage your people, even when the pressure is on.

Course Content

  • Where your time goes: Gain clarity on how your time is currently spent and its impact.
  • Urgent vs important matrix: Use this model to prioritise effectively and reduce reactive work.
  • Identifying time stealers: Recognise habits and interruptions that limit your effectiveness.
  • Managing energy and focus: Understand how attention and energy influence productivity.
  • Short and long term planning: Balance immediate demands with future leadership priorities.
  • Delegation ladder: Learn how to let go of tasks and develop your team.
  • Breaking firefighting habits: Move from reactive working to proactive leadership.
  • Effective meetings: Create focused agendas that support clear outcomes.
  • Setting boundaries: Build practical habits that protect your time and focus.
  • Personal action plan: Leave with a clear plan to lead with intent.

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand where your time is really spent across meetings, tasks, priorities and interruptions
  • Align how you spend time with leadership priorities that deliver measurable impact for your role
  • Use practical prioritisation tools to reduce reactive working and stay focused on what matters most
  • Identify and tackle common time stealers, distractions and behaviours that reduce your effectiveness each day
  • Plan your time well across short and long term priorities without losing flexibility or control
  • Delegate with confidence using structured approaches that build capability and free up your time
  • Build consistent habits that support focus, boundaries, energy management and sustained contact centre leadership performance

Who should attend?

Leaders juggling priorities, workload and constant demands

What will you learn?

Prioritise effectively and align time to leadership impact

How much is it?

£300 + VAT for members, £375 + VAT for non-members

Format Info

3 hour online workshop using Zoom

Group discount

Additional discounts available for group bookings

Who is it for?

Leaders juggling priorities, workload and constant demands

Why should you go?

Prioritise effectively and align time to leadership impact

How much is it?

£300 + VAT for members, £375 + VAT for non-members

What delegates say

“Honestly, Jenifer really made this training enjoyable. She was on point with content and led a very interactive course with good, helpful content.”
Amanda Walker, Team Leader, Esure

Upcoming Dates

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Tue 3 Nov 2026
9:00 – 12:00
Thu 11 Feb 2027
9:00 – 12:00

Meet the Trainer

Jennifer Lord

Jenifer Lord

Jenifer Lord is a highly skilled Coach and facilitator who has worked with many prestigious clients and organisations all over the UK and in South Africa, India and USA. Having gained most of her experience over many years leading teams in fast paced multi-million turnover organisations, Jenifer blends strong commerciality and outstanding customer focus with a revolutionary way of thinking. She is a qualified NLP Practitioner as well as a Hypnotherapist and is qualified to use several psychometric profiling tools including MBTI and TMSDI.

Her passion for understanding what makes people tick led her to study Psychology, Neuroscience and Neuroplasticity and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for stress reduction as well as Mindfulness.

As a lover of life Jenifer understands that the key to success in both life and business is through people.

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