The document outlines effective time management principles, emphasizing the importance of prioritizing tasks, setting realistic deadlines, and delegating responsibilities to reduce stress and improve productivity. It discusses various personality types that affect time management, such as perfectionists and workaholics, and offers self-assessment questions to evaluate one's time management skills. The document also highlights the need to minimize distractions and create a conducive work environment to combat procrastination and enhance focus.

1. Effective
Time Management

3. Lets Evaluate Ourselves

4. Principles Of Time Management
Select the task with highest
priority
Exclude all other tasks
Put all efforts into

5. Shortage of time and pressure
Incompetent
Drained
Harassed
Overloaded
Trapped
Irritable

6. Categories Of Personality
The first simply results from bad
planning
The second results from faulty
estimating of time
The fourth and final one is perhaps
the most difficult: Addiction
The third results from ignoring
facts
Sheep
without a
sheepdog

7. Live for work
Effects home-life Hate routine and repetition
Feed on challenges and completion
Set over-ambitious goals
Take on more work
Workaholic
Setting realistic
deadlines
Delegating as
much as possible
Scheduling
breaks
Re-assessing the
number of hours
worked

8. Worrying what other people think
of them
High stress levels
Experiencing low self esteem when
falling short of self-expectations
Fearing rejection
Going back over tasks again and
again
Perfectionist

9. Compartmentalised
Each compartment is open to the
exclusion of the others
It is far healthier to be able to
switch freely between
compartments
Work, Family, Sport, Shopping
Tycoon
mentality

10. The most appropriate method of assessment to define your style of time management is to ask a
set of questions. These questions should include the following:
1. Are you clear on your goals in life?
2. Are you clear on which of these goals should be reached within 12 months?
3. Are you regularly working toward your goals?
4. Are you happy to delegate tasks to others?
5. Can you prioritize tasks easily?
6. Do you trust other people to carry out tasks on your behalf?
7. Do you clear out any clutter?
8. Do you regularly clear your files or drawers of old paper?
9. Do you use the telephone rather than paperwork wherever possible?
10. When you go home, can you switch “off”?
11. Do you plan your day and your week?
12. Do you prioritize your work?
Asking the right questions
Any individual who replies “yes” to all of these questions is already a competent time manager.

11. Plan Your Day
Long term
success
Use only one
planner
A, B and C
priorities
Block off time
Be your own
Manager

12. Procrastinating
Harold Taylor defines procrastination as the intentional and habitual postponement of an important task that should be
done now
Tasks Strategies
Fix procrastination by working on
Your Environment
Unpleasant
Task
Complex
Projects
Indecision
Fear Of
Failure
Complex
Projects
Lack Of
Interest
Distraction,
lack of focus
Tailor your
environment
for work
Remove
distractions
Work time