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Time management skills

Time management skills

This survey assesses employees’ time management skills, including task planning, prioritization, handling distractions, and maintaining productivity under high workload. It helps identify development needs and optimize work processes within teams.

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The Time management skills survey shows how confidently your team plans, prioritizes and protects its focus under pressure. It captures how effectively people organize tasks, how often they run short of time, and which tools and habits keep them productive. Use it to spot where a lack of time is really a lack of prioritization or too many interruptions.

What the “Time management skills” survey measures

The survey measures planning effectiveness on a rating scale, how frequently employees feel they lack time to finish tasks, and the obstacles that get in the way: heavy workload, distractions, unclear priorities, juggling parallel tasks, procrastination or urgent unplanned work. It also tracks how well people stick to their plans and schedule, which tools and approaches help (task lists, calendars, time blocking, time trackers, delegation, methods like Pomodoro), the ability to prioritize when workload is high, and how time management affects productivity. An open question invites suggestions for changes or tools that would help.

Who the “Time management skills” template is for

It suits HR and L&D teams building productivity or time-management training, managers coaching their reports, and team leads who want to reduce overload. It is valuable for knowledge-work teams, project-based and agency environments, remote and hybrid teams, and onboarding where new hires need to build working routines quickly.

How to adapt the template to your needs

Adjust the obstacles list to your context by adding items like too many meetings, context switching or slow approvals, and drop those that do not fit. Tailor the tools question to the software your company actually uses instead of generic categories, convert the productivity-impact question into a self-scored scale, and add branching so that people who often lack time are asked which single obstacle affects them most.

Questions and answer options

Question type: single choice.
Answer options:
— Very often
— Often
— Sometimes
— Rarely
Question type: multiple choice.
Answer options:
— High workload
— Many distractions
— Unclear priorities
— Multiple parallel tasks
— Procrastination
— Urgent unplanned tasks
Question type: multiple choice.
Answer options:
— Task lists
— Calendar or planner
— Time blocking
— Time trackers
— Delegation
— Productivity methods (e.g., Pomodoro)
Question type: single choice.
Answer options:
— Significantly increase it
— Slightly increase it
— Do not affect it
— Sometimes decrease it
— Significantly decrease it

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Frequently asked questions

Yes. It combines the frequency of running out of time with a dedicated question on how well people prioritize under high workload and an obstacles list that includes unclear priorities and parallel tasks. If time pressure is high but prioritization scores low, the issue is focus and sequencing rather than sheer volume.
The tools question offers task lists, calendars or planners, time blocking, time trackers, delegation and productivity methods such as Pomodoro. You can replace these with the specific apps your teams use to see real adoption rather than intentions.
Run it before and after the program and compare the planning-effectiveness rating, the frequency of lacking time and the prioritization question. Improvement across those three, plus wider tool adoption, indicates the training changed daily behavior.
The obstacles question lists procrastination and high workload as separate options, so respondents distinguish self-imposed delays from external volume. Combined with the follow-your-plans question, it shows whether the bottleneck is starting work or simply having too much of it.