The document discusses time management strategies for increasing productivity. It defines time management as planning and controlling how time is spent on activities. Effective time management can save time, reduce stress, and increase productivity. While time cannot truly be managed, one can manage thoughts, actions, and conversations. The document recommends planning with goals and visions, creating a time budget, prioritizing tasks, scheduling "me time", sequencing activities, using tools like to-do lists, learning skills like multitasking and delegation, and getting sufficient rest, food, and water to stay productive. It advises reviewing time management strategies to see what is working well.

1. Time Management:
Optimize For all round
Productivity
by
Jude Akhabue

2. OUTLINE
• Time Management defined
• Why time management
• Can We really manage time?
• What do we actually do with ALL the Time.
• What to do
• How to measure time ROI
• Closing

3. What is Time Management
• Time management is the act or process of
planning and exercising conscious control over
the amount of time spent on specific activities,
especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency or
productivity.
▫ Wikipedia.com

4. Why do we need TM
• To save time
• To reduce stress
• To increase work output
• To have more control over our lives
• To function effectively
• To live an ordered and structured life
PRODUCTIVITY

5. BUT….
• CAN WE REALY MANAGE TIME

6. What do we actually DO with All
the time we’ve got
Thoughts
Actions
Conversations, yeah, talk!

7. So if you Managed those 3 things
• You would have better managed time.
• Simply PUT,
Time management
SELF MANAGEMENT

8. Time Management Hacks
• Plan
• Employ a budget
• Prioritize
• Have a “Me Only” time
• Sequence
• Stop hardwork-ing, start smart-working
• 5 things to learn
• Rest and sleep
• Good food and water
• Synchronize
• Review.

9. Plan : Vision and Goal setting
A Plan could be
▫ Long, Medium or Short term.
• Plans should be
▫ Simple
▫ Realistic
▫ Specific
▫ Complete
Goals and visions should be written out…

10. Budgeting
• Estimates right?
remember the talk about cutting coat to size? –
that’s budgeting.
•So, cut your activities to time
•Plan your activities with time in
view

11. Prioritize, without it, everything will collapse
• It puts things in real perspective
▫ in order of importance to YOU and your GOALS.
• It removes the backlogs
▫ helping you focus on what’s important.

12. Do You have a ‘Me Alone’ Time
• If you don’t, now you should.
• Shut everyone out, its you and only you.
• Remember those 3 things you do with ALL your time (talk, act,
think),
• Now think on these things OR
• Just do nothing, yap NADA… shut down the factory.

13. SEQUENCE
• Put order into it
▫ Imagine if all these bricks were scattered
▫ Look, even evolution was sequential, why not
TIME.

14. (HARDwork VS SMARTwork)ing.
Smartworking = Hardwork + Tools

15. HOW; Use Tools like
▫ Schedules
▫ To do Lists
▫ Apps
▫ Timesheets

16. 5 Things You MUST learn
▫ Multi-tasking
▫ Delegating
▫ The Art of saying “NO”
▫ Leveraging on other people’s time
▫ Recreating Yourself in others (leadership +
mentorship)

17. Rest+ Sleep =
• Being alive
• Being alert
• being energized
So make it a habit to Rest and Sleep
(at the right time)
You need all these to be PRODUCTIVE.

18. Good Food + Water =
• Life
• Vitality
• Energy
• Freshness
• Essential body minerals
Again, You need all these to be PRODUCTIVE.

19. SYNCRONIZE
wrap all we’ve learnt into one personalised strategy
Plan Personal time Prioritization
Hard/smart-working Tools
delegation/multi-tasking/saying No
Rest & Sleep Food & water.
THEN

20. REVIEW
• Find out if you are profiting,
• Remember the 80/20 Principle
• Find out where YOU ROCK, put more EFFORT ,
it will eventually yield the RESULTS you want to
see.

21. I CAN NOW TAKE YOUR
QUESTIONS

22. Akhabue Jude
• Jude is a book lover and an insightful youth on a quest to be an
internationally acclaimed thoughtpreneur. He employs his listening
skills in delivering insightful solutions to needs. He is passionate
about making simple life’s complexities.
• Jude enjoys teaching (secular and Christian) and he unwinds by
taking power naps or playing sudoku.
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