Time efficiency, time management, and time audits

1. Time Management
Time Efficiency
Time Management
Time Audits

2. Objectives
Identify personal use of time
Identify time pirates
Identify strategies for effective time use

3. Time Management vs. Effective
Use of Time
Myth: Time management
Reality: Effectively using the time that you have
We all have 24 hours in a day. How do you use
your 24 hours?

4. Time Pirates
• Time pirates are people, places, or things that
divert your attention from your academics.
• Time Pirates can include (but are not limited to)
the following.
• Electronics
• Social Butterfly syndrome
• Study method shortcuts
• Cramming
• Procrastination
• Not asking for help.
How many time
pirates did you find
on your time audit?

5. College Success Tool: The Time
Audit
Your time audit illuminated a few things about how you use your time:
•Missed opportunities to effectively use your time.
•Areas that you are spending too much or too little time.
•Where the majority of your time is spent.
•A realistic view of where and how your time is being spent or wasted.
Activity: Pull out a blank time grid and schedule your week with
the following items- Personal care, Sleep, Nutrition, Work, Class time,
Study time, and social time. Notice the order of the items.

6. Strategies to Improve Effective
Time Use
• Plan your time!
• Set priorities! Some things will have to wait.
• Learn to say NO!
• You cannot be everything for everybody or be
everywhere.
• Get rid of time pirates.
• Determine what eats up the most of your time
and develop strategies to rid yourself of those
distractions.
• Understand your learning style.
• How you learn and where you learn will help you
to use your time most efficiently!

7. The Study Plan
Using your planner
Developing your study plan

8. Objectives
Understanding the components of an effective
study plan
Create a study plan

9. • Planning your time helps you to identify your priorities.
• Provides a schedule.
• Gives you a detailed picture about how you are spending your time.
• Writing down your planned activities and events helps you to plan
for other opportunities.
Planners are a necessity in college! Make sure to purchase a
planner or print a template from online.
Plan Your Time

10. Do I really need a planner?
• A planner is a necessity in college!
• Electronic Planner
• Traditional paper planner
• Planner app
• Planner essentials
• Monthly calendar
• Day or week sections to keep track of important
dates, assignments, and priorities
A planner will help you to keep track of the
important dates and deadlines that your
brain may not always hold on to. Get a
planner!

11. College Success Tool: The
Study Plan
• A study plan must be consistent with the academic term.
• Plan must be written- When will you study?
• Plan must be specific- When and how long will you study?
• Plan must be detailed- When, how long, and what exactly what
study activities will you complete?
• Study plans should include three levels of vision.
• A semester plan- Monthly calendar or Semester at a glance
• A weekly plan- Week at a glance appointment page
• A study session plan- Study session ticket

12. Semester-at-a-glance
• What does my semester look like?
• What are the major assignments that I will have
to complete this semester?
Semester planning can be completed on a
monthly or by semester calendar.
Highlights
several months
at one glance.
Provides an
overview of the
semester
The monthly view
gives an overview
for the month.
This gives greater
detail of the
semester and
allows you to
focus on 30 days
at a time.

13. Week-at-a-glance
The week-at-a-glance allows you to plan out
your week day by day.
You can create general to-do list from a
week-at-a-glance planner page that allows
you to prioritize what you need to complete.
You can create weekly studying
appointments based on your week overview.

14. Individualized Study Session
Ticket
• Specifying what, how, and when you will study can improve your study
time and study session.
• Creating an individual study ticket can help you to guide your time during
your study session.
• Items that are not completed or areas of confusion can be clarified by
asking questions of your professor, TA, or tutor.
A blank study
session ticket
template is available in
the textbook.

15. What goes where on my Study
Plan?
Semester/
Monthly
Calendar
• Major
assignments
• All major
projects
• Personal timeline
of due dates for
larger
assignments
• Institutional and
college dates and
deadlines
Weekly
Calendar
• Weekly
homework
• Study sessions
• Reading
assignments
• Personal
timeline of due
dates for larger
assignments
• New homework/
reading assigned
• Study sessions
with detailed
items for study
• Reading
assignments to be
completed today
• Personal due
dates for larger
assignments
Daily Calendar
Always have note cards or reading material available and ready to review or read.
This strategy can turn travel time on a bus or waiting in line at the bank more
productive!

16. Organization Systems in
Real Life
Planners do not
work if you do not
use them!
Find a system that
works for you and
USE IT!