Managing Your Time and Your Team’s Work With Equal Precision

Effective Time & Work Management

A Two-Day Workshop for Managers Responsible for Both Their Own Output and Their Team’s
“A manager who manages their own time perfectly but cannot manage their team’s work output has solved only half the problem.”

Time management becomes a different and more complex challenge the moment a professional becomes a manager.

Managing your own time is hard enough.

Managing your own time while simultaneously being responsible for the output of three, five, or ten other people who each have their own competing demands, their own working styles, and their own tendency to bring problems upward rather than solving them independently, is a qualitatively different challenge that personal time management tools alone do not address.
Effective Time and Work Management Training is IKTAR’s program for the managerial dimension of this challenge. It covers personal time discipline, the fundamentals of managing your own priorities, planning your week, and protecting time for high-value work, alongside the work management skills specific to leading a team: planning and distributing work effectively, tracking team output without micromanaging, handling the constant upward delegation of problems that drains a manager’s time, and building the team systems and habits that reduce the manager’s need to intervene in every task.
This program is specifically designed for managers and team leaders. It is the managerial counterpart to Time Management Training in IKTAR’s Personal Development suite, which addresses individual productivity. Where that program focuses on managing your own workload, this program extends those principles to the responsibility of managing a team’s collective output.

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Who This Program Is For

Effective Time & Work Management is designed for:

• Managers and team leaders who carry responsibility for both their own deliverables and their team’s output, and struggle to balance both consistently
• New managers who made the transition from individual contributor to team leader and have not yet developed the work planning and coordination habits the new role requires
• Managers whose teams consistently miss deadlines or produce uneven output and want to address the planning and coordination gaps rather than simply applying more pressure
• Department heads who are spending disproportionate time on operational firefighting rather than strategic work because their team’s work management is not running independently
• Organizations that want to build a consistent work management standard across a management bench rather than leaving each manager to develop their own approach informally

If your managers are working long hours but their teams are still missing deadlines, this program addresses the planning, coordination, and delegation gap that creates exactly that situation.

What Participants Learn

By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:

•Plan their own week with enough discipline that strategic priorities get protected time rather than always being displaced by operational urgencies
• Plan and distribute team work in a way that is clear, realistic, and trackable without requiring constant managerial supervision
• Stop absorbing problems that team members should be solving themselves, and redirect that upward delegation back to the appropriate level
• Track team output effectively using simple, consistent systems that give early warning of slippage before deadlines are missed
• Build meeting disciplines that keep the team informed and accountable without consuming the majority of everyone’s working week
• Identify and address the team habits and organizational patterns that systematically waste time at the team level rather than the individual level

Methodology

Program Structure and Methodology

Format: Two day in-person workshop
Group Size: Optimal cohort of 12 to 20 managers
Methodology: Personal time audit, team work planning exercises, upward delegation role plays, and a practical team work management system built by each participant during the workshop
Delivery Options: Public workshop with scheduled dates, or in-house program for a management team
Training
The workshop is structured so that Day One focuses primarily on personal time management for managers, applying the fundamentals of prioritization and planning to the specific pressures of a management role. Day Two shifts to team work management, building the planning, tracking, and coordination systems that keep a team’s collective output on track. Participants build a practical personal and team work management plan during the second day that they can implement immediately on returning to work.

Why IKTAR

Time management training for managers that focuses only on personal productivity tools ignores the fact that the manager’s biggest time problem is often not their own scheduling but their team’s work habits. IKTAR’s program addresses both levels because both matter, and addresses them in a sequence that reflects how the problem actually presents itself in Pakistani organizations: personal discipline first, then team coordination.
Following the workshop, IKTAR provides a free training review report identifying each participant’s most significant personal and team-level time management gap and recommended first steps for addressing each.

Public Training Workshops

Open Public Training Workshops

Scheduled training sessions held at IKTAR’s facilities or partner venues in Lahore. Open to participants from any organization. Ideal for organizations sending one to five people, or for individuals investing in their own professional development

Scheduled dates published in advance | Meet and learn with professionals from other organizations | Cost-effective for small teams | Immediate availability without minimum group size | Certificate of completion issued

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In-House Customized Programs

Customized In-House Training Solutions

Training designed exclusively for your organization and delivered at your premises or a venue of your choice. IKTAR conducts a Training Needs Analysis first, then develops a program that reflects your organization’s specific context, challenges, and objectives.

Designed around your actual training gaps | Delivered at your location across Pakistan | Consistent messaging for your entire team | Flexible scheduling around your operations | Higher ROI for teams of 10 or more | Ongoing support and follow-up available

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Explore Our Management Training Programs

Effective Time & Work Management pairs well with other IKTAR programs:

Time Management Training

The individual version of this skill for non-management professionals

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Presentation Skills Training

Presenting proposals to funders and donors in person

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Project Management & Paradigm Shift

Applying time and work discipline to defined project delivery

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Modern Methods of Team Building

• Building the team cohesion that makes coordinated work management possible

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CLIENT RESULTS

What Organizations Say About IKTAR Training

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Shafqat is well experienced trainer familiar with Competency Based Education and Training CBET & Quality Assurance QA / Quality Control QC of Training

Moustafa WahbaTVET Consultant

I don’t hesitate in placing Shafqat Jilani among the best trainers in the country. He always explores modern approaches, creative skills, innovative ideas and relevant case studies. Any enterprise looking for training services in human development, strategic planning, development of selling & marketing skills, improvement in presentation skills, policy & strategy development, polishing decision-making skills, introduction of modern approaches etc. must opt IKTAR as a Trainer.

Zulfiqar Ahmad HBL

Mr. Shafqat is a thorough gentleman and a perfect professional who keeps his commitments and have all the potential to steer any organization to success. He is a Lead Trainer and Consultant and I for once trust him to deliver effective and mesmerizing trainings as well as innovative solutions. I would like to highly recommend him for training and consulting assignments.

Suhail Iqbal SysComp International (Pvt.) Ltd

KTAR is very good training institute, as we experienced recently. We sent our team on Leadership training course to IKTAR and found a tremendous change in behavior of our team. IKTAR has been useful in bringing a Paradigm shift in their approach to handle things and now the same employees are very helpful towards other colleagues. I believe, IKTAR training modules makes employees from Followers to Leaders, who not only delivery their own KPIs but also help others to grow to achieve joint goals of the company.

Abdul Wahid QureshiRenacon Pharma

Shafqat Jilani is a a detailed oriented person. Hope his organization can take a lot a benefit from him. Good Luck

Chaudhry Ahmad JawadPakistan Business Forum

I had the opportunity to work with Shafqat Jilani and found him to be a knowledgeable and dedicated business consultant. His practical advice, strategic thinking, and commitment to helping businesses grow make him a valuable professional. I appreciate his guidance and confidently recommend him to anyone seeking business transformation and growth expertise.

Dr. Shafa UllahPower Lion Seed

I know Shafqat from his university days, he had a candid and persuasive personality from the early days. He had bold presentations with innovative and unique ideas complemented by his ability to put this on the paper as well. Teaching and passing on his knowledge to others has always been his passion and he has been doing this very well in his different roles at the present and previous assignments.

M. Zafar IqbalLa Computa Vision LLC

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