Time management in production planning – how to plan daily work duties effectively and plan company operations strategically

Training process

Training needs analysis

If you have specific requirements regarding the training programme, we will carry out a training needs analysis for you. This will guide us on which aspects of the programme should receive greater emphasis, so that the training programme meets your specific needs.

What will you gain?

Better daily structure - You will organize your workday so you can move from planning to execution faster. You will learn to build task lists, set priorities, and assess available time more realistically.

Goals turned into tasks - You will learn how to translate production goals into clear tasks for yourself and your team. This will help you plan work more smoothly, reduce confusion, and speed up execution.

Stronger production planning - You will better understand how to plan production flow, production resources, staffing, and materials. This will help you build plans that fit real shop floor conditions.

Smarter prioritization - You will use practical methods to identify the tasks that matter most, including the Eisenhower matrix and the Pareto rule. This will cut time spent on low-value activities.

Fewer delays and disruptions - You will learn how to spot common obstacles in daily work and respond to distractions and procrastination. This will help you keep work on track and improve predictability.

More effective schedules - You will learn how to build schedules for your own work and for your team, taking shifts, resources, and deadlines into account. This will make coordination easier and reduce downtime.

Better delegation and decisions - You will practice assigning tasks in a clear way matched to goals, workload, and team capability. This will support better decisions and strengthen accountability in your team.

Shorter, more useful meetings - You will learn how to run working meetings with a clear goal, agenda, and outcome. With schedules, checklists, and moderation, you will shorten meetings and make them more useful.

Training programme

1. Time management in the organization of one's own work

subjective sense of time,
analysis of patterns of one's activity,
dependence on time,
business approach to time.

2. Management by objectives in the production sector

the art of setting goals,
principles of wise goal formulation – the SMART technique,
operationalization of goals into tasks,
effective delegation of tasks.

3. The essence of strategic planning

4. Operational planning in the enterprise

course of the production process,
planning of means of production,
personnel management,
shift working time,
materials management.

5. Effective planning techniques

task list and day organization,
setting priorities,
the Eisenhower matrix and its use in practice,
the Pareto rule – what is it about?
key planning principles,
working with a calendar and planner,
control of the prepared plan.

6. Distractors in everyday work

obstacles and methods of dealing with them,
putting things off until later.

7. Skillful time management

time management efficiency and evaluation of results,
a multidimensional view of tasks,
searching for variants of action and making decisions.

8. Time management in production planning

assigning tasks to oneself and the team,
creating schedules.

9. Conducting effective meetings

moderating a meeting, techniques for conducting thematic and organizational meetings,
creating meeting schedules,
preparing checklists and worksheets.

10. Summary of aspects concerning time management in production planning

What are the prerequisites for participating in the training?

Basics of production work - You should know the basic stages of a production process and understand how work is organized in practice, including shift staffing and task execution on the shop floor or in planning.

Experience in task planning - You should have at least basic experience in planning your own tasks or your team's work so you can relate the methods discussed to your everyday professional responsibilities.

Understanding goals and deadlines - You should understand how goals, deadlines, and priorities affect work organization, because the training focuses on turning them into specific tasks and workable schedules.

Readiness for practical work - You should be ready to examine your own work habits, common obstacles, and real company situations, because the training is built around practical examples and exercises.