Most time-management training is about saying no. This is about saying yes to the right things — and building the calendar discipline that makes those decisions stick past Wednesday.
Most managers don't have a time-management problem. They have a prioritisation problem dressed up as a time problem. The week is full because they said yes to every request from a peer, every escalation from a direct report, and every 'quick chat' from a leader — and now the actual work, the work that pays for the job, is happening at 9pm.
This workshop is built on the Eisenhower matrix (urgent vs important) and Stephen Covey's Quadrant II discipline from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — the framework that almost every credible UK management programme uses to teach prioritisation. We combine it with the focus block discipline from Cal Newport's Deep Work, applied to a typical UK manager's calendar.
The day is built around your actual calendar. Delegates do live surgery on their week — cuts, protections, focus blocks — and leave with a revised diary they'll execute on Monday, not a workbook of techniques they won't use.
Built on the Eisenhower matrix + Covey's 7 HabitsEvery TESS workshop is designed backwards from the change you want to see in your team's behaviour. Here's what coaching graduates do differently on the Monday after.
Eisenhower matrix as a daily filter, not a one-off poster — applied to the actual inbox.
Important but not urgent — the prep, planning, coaching, strategy work that gets squeezed first when the week heats up.
A 90-minute window when the laptop is on Do Not Disturb and the work that pays for the job actually gets done.
Three phrases for declining a request from a peer, a direct report and a leader — without bridge-burning.
Stop hoarding work as a tax on your team. A 4-question delegation framework that releases capacity in both directions.
A repeatable cadence — Friday afternoon or Sunday evening — that resets the diary for the week ahead.
Half-day format. A focused three-and-a-half hour block — the structure compresses to fit the time without losing the live practice.
Genuinely the first time I've left a coaching course able to do it on Monday. The live rounds with feedback made the difference. My 1:1s have completely changed shape.
Pricing depends on group size, delivery mode (live online vs in-person) and whether we tailor the curriculum to your sector. Closed cohorts start from a few hundred pounds per delegate for half-day workshops and scale from there. Book a 15-minute discovery call and we'll give you a concrete figure within 24 hours.
Time Management is a focused half-day by design — the live calendar surgery is the bit that changes behaviour, and it works best in a tight session. A full-day option exists if you want to combine it with the delegation and 1:1 coaching content from Coaching for Performance.
We're flexible. Most cohorts run with 10–20 delegates, but we regularly deliver for smaller groups of 2–4, particularly for senior teams or specialised sectors. The live coaching rounds work better with even numbers, but we'll make any group work.
Live online is our default and works well for coaching — breakout rooms make the practice rounds work cleanly. We also deliver in-person at your site or a venue you choose, particularly when the cohort already work in the same room.
Typical lead time from a first call to delivery is 2–4 weeks. We can move faster if you need to — the limiting factor is usually your calendar, not ours.
Yes. The frameworks (GROW, TGROW, observable behaviours) stay the same; the examples, exercises and case studies are tailored to your sector, tools and your team's real work. We discuss this on the discovery call and rebrief the practitioner before delivery.
Yes. Every delegate receives a CPD-certified digital certificate on completion. The certificate references the hours of learning and the frameworks covered, so it can be added directly to a CPD record for any chartered or professional body.
We allocate a TESS coaching practitioner based on your sector. All practitioners are independently qualified coaches (ILM Level 5 or equivalent) with active corporate coaching practices. We'll send the named practitioner's bio after the discovery call.
Two ways in. Book a 30-minute discovery call below, or fill out the form and we'll reply within 24 hours with cohort options for your group.