Time Management

What is time management?

Time management involves utilizing time to create maximum personal effectiveness and efficiency. This is achieved by planning how best to use your time and successfully implementing the plan.

Benefits

· Achieve control over your activities

· Balance work, rest and play

· Develop a style that is proactive and not reactive

· Deal with problems as they arise rather letting them grow

· Build in time for constructive personal development

· Save money by increasing your efficiency and achieving more

· Complete important assignment on time and avoid wasting time on unimportant task

· Have time to listen to others

· Be well perceived by others and differentiated from less well organized colleagues

· Relieve pressure and stress

· Go home from the office on time

What do you do?

1 Establish how your time is spent

2 Identify your problem areas

3 Clarify your objectives and priorities

4 Tackle the enemy without

5 Tackle the enemies within

PLAN

· Map out your activities a week in advance

· Spend five minutes each morning reviewing your time plan; adjust it as circumstances change

· Build slack time into your schedule so that you don’t constantly overrun

· Have a back up plan for contingency situations-decide which task can be dropped, who can be called on to help out, and who need to be notified if you are consequently delayed with other activities

· Plan time for relaxation and recreation as well as work

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