I am looking for ideas on how to make an existing time management course more interactive. Open to any and all suggestions on how to inject some fun into the day.

The Accelerated Learning Handbook - Meier
How to Give It So They Get It - Bowman

Both books are all about focusing on the learner and how to do it.

Also - time management has come up a lot in these forums. You should find some good stuff with a search (use the Find feature).

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You might want to try a favourite exercise of mine. It's quick to set up, visual and gets delegates discussing some of the real time robbers they are faced with in their workplace. Go to http://www.abctrainingsolution...nagementskills1.html and scroll down to 'Time Robbers exercise'
Hope that helps

Time management is about how to organise content. Everyone has their own way of approaching it. Naturally you will have content in your course that teaches the delegates how to do this. Hence a good exercise to carry out just before you explain the ideal way to organise is to see how they currently do it.

Here is the exercise you can use:
Bring a bunch of items that most people get in their inbox. For example, magazine, a note to repair car, a note to order Christmas party venue, mails (some useful and some not) and so on. Place these at the centre of the table and ask delegates to treat them as their inbox and go through it. Observe how they treat these objects or choose not to bother.

For example if someone picks something, then puts it back to pick another, it suggests that they can't be bothered to do it and are procrastinating. You can then use this opportunity to teach them learning points. You can also observe how they organise the content or what happens to the item after it is processed. They need to simulate their personal environment for this to work.

Of course you can use lots of variations with this. For more ideas, you can get downloadable training materials on time management which contains exercises as well as theoretical content.

Hope this helps

Like most of these tip-articles, there is *some* good information here, but…it completely misses the point that different people's minds work in different ways and what works best for some people does not work best for all people.
Best advice I can give; is working when no one else does; it gives the tranquillity needed for getting things done, although it usually means less sleep.