Description
Duration: 6 months.
Starts: From January 2023
This unit is Included in the motor vehicle service qualification but can be delivered as a stand-alone qualification.
Sessions: 09.30am – 11.30am / 12.30pm-14.30pm
Progression: Level 2 Personnel Development
Sessions can be once a week. We can accommodate single students or block bookings from schools, APs, CIC and Trusts. Max numbers per group is 6.
This course is aimed at Year 9,10 & 11
Unit in brief
Learners will develop key techniques to help organise their work and priorities and manage their
time effectively
Learning aims
In this unit you will:
A Explore techniques to improve own organisational skills
B Review the use of techniques to improve own organisational skills
Knowledge and sector skills
Techniques to improve organisation
Learners will practice skills and techniques to improve their organisation over a period
of time before final assessment.
Time-management techniques:
produce daily or weekly to-do lists or action plans to meet deadlines
prioritise tasks
create a checklist of tasks that need to be completed, reviewing it regularlyconsider how long each task might take
use free calendar software to keep timings of lessons and work
allow a little extra time in case longer is spent on one task than expected
foresee problems and plan ways to overcome them
review priorities.
Organisational techniques:
ensure there is access to required resources to complete tasks such as notebooks,
pens, laptops, tablets
use organisational stationery such as folders, dividers, highlighters
set up and manage a filing system of work and emails to allow for quick and
easy access
use alerts on phones and other digital devices
use project plans and spreadsheets for organisation and budgeting
Planners to organise time:
different types of planners such as wall planners, calendars, electronic
and/or online planners
using them daily, weekly or monthly
keeping them updated and reviewing the priorities.
Review own time-management and organisational skills through identifying:
strengths and weaknesses of techniques used
why some techniques worked better than others
ways to improve own time management and organisation.
For more information, please email: schools@easternregiontraining.co.uk or call 01473 830255