Time Management for Creative People

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A Creative Momentum Workshop — Cockpit Arts, Holborn, London

Wednesday 29 July 2009, 6.30 – 8.30pm

Manage the mundane — create the extraordinary. Essential skills to maximise your creativity and minimise your stress levels at work!

• Spark your creativity
• Boost your productivity
• Meet your professional commitments — without compromising your creative work
• Stop worrying about forgetting important tasks
• Tame your e-mail inbox

Time management may not sound like a sexy topic — but it could make or break your business, not to mention your inspiration.

Many creative people would like nothing better than to shut themselves in a room and get on with their creative work. This isn’t just self-indulgence — creativity requires focus and dedication, which is hard to achieve when the phone doesn’t stop ringing and the e-mail keeps pinging.

As a creative professional, you’re constantly having to balance focus on your work with responding to the demands of colleagues, customers and clients.

This practical workshop will help you resolve this tension, by finding the time and mental space for focused creative work — and still meeting all of your professional commitments.

Topics covered include:

• Finding the method in your creative madness
• Identifying and prioritising your most important work
• Getting in the right state of mind for focused creative work
• How to minimise interruptions and distractions
• Managing e-mail effectively
• How to remember — and fulfil — all your important commitments

This workshop is based on my e-book Time Management for Creative People, which has been downloaded over 70,000 times. The workshop includes new material I’ve developed since writing the e-book, and will help you apply the principles to your own work.

How the Workshop Works

Numbers will be limited to 25 places.

1. Tell me what you want to learn
Once you’ve booked your place, I’ll e-mail you some questions about your current challenges and what you want to learn. Based on this feedback, I’ll tailor each workshop to address the challenges that are most relevant to the group.

2. The workshop features:

• Practical skills you can start to use immediately
• Stories and real-life examples
• Activities to help you apply the ideas to your own work
• Questions and discussions – ask me what you want to learn!
• Networking and learning from other interesting creative people

3. After the workshop
I’ll send you my time management e-book as well as articles and links to help you digest the material and apply it to your work.

Who for?

This workshop is for creative people of all kinds — artists, creatives, freelancers, entrepreneurs, and anyone else who takes their creativity seriously.

Who with?

Mark McGuinness — I’m a poet who earns my living as a coach and trainer for creative professionals. I’ve been coaching and training creative people for over a decade, and have worked with organisations including the BBC, Channel 4, Arts & Business and Cockpit Arts. I write two popular blogs about creativity and business: Wishful Thinking and Lateral Action.

Where and When?

Cockpit Arts in Holborn, London. Click here to download directions to Cockpit Arts.

Wednesday 29 July 2009, 6.30 – 8.30pm