This document provides time management tips organized into building a foundation and completing work. The foundation involves knowing priorities, objectives, critical paths, developing task lists, and staging resources. For completing work, it recommends blocking calendar time, deferring interruptions strategically, communicating expectations, and confirming closure. The tips aim to help the reader achieve goals and objectives by setting SMART objectives, understanding critical paths, managing resources, calendars, and interruptions, and maintaining regular status reporting and validation of success.

2. Top Ten Time Tips:
Build the Foundation,
Complete the Work
Petula Brown, MHSA, PMP

3. 1. Know Your Priorities
2. Understand the Objective
3. Identify the Critical Path
4. Develop Task List
5. Stage Key Resources
Building the Foundation

4. 1. Block Calendar Early
2. Defer Interruptions Strategically
3. Communicate Expectations Proactively
4. Check Progress Regularly
5. Confirm Closure Thoroughly
Completing the Work

5. 1. What do you want to achieve?
2. Where do you want to be next
month? Next year? Next four
years?
3. Goal setting tools
Prioritization Process

6. 1. From goal to objective
2. Is objective SMART?
- Specific
- Measureable
- Achievable
- Relevant
- Time Bound
Objective Definition

7. 1. “Minimum time needed” to reach objective
2. Critical Path in 60 Seconds video –
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Critical Path to Success

8. Task Owner Dependency Start Date End Date Percent
Complete
Deliver
Assignment
Instructor NA 10/11/18 10/12/18 100
Complete
Assignment
Student Deliver
Assignment
10/13/18 10/14/18 50
Submit
Assignment
Student Complete
Assignment
10/15/18 10/15/18 0
Project Plan 101

9. 1. Manpower
2. Materials
3. Money
Resource Readiness

10. 1. Meeting Time – required versus optional
2. Talking Time – high tech versus low tech
3. Thinking Time – task completion *
4. Break Time – self care *
Calendar Management 101

11. 1. “Thanks. I’m in a meeting; please email me the
details” – for text messages
2. “Thanks. Will get back with you within a week; do
you need something sooner?” – for emails or text
messages
3. “I have something due today but will setup a time
for us to chat; is your calendar current?” - for
phone calls or in-person scenarios
Interruption Scripts

12. 1. Deadlines
2. Decisions
3. Delays
Expectation Management

13. 1. Project Plan Reviews
2. Change Management
3. “Temperature Check” video -
https://www.coursera.org/lecture/high-
performing-teams/2-8-taking-the-team-
temperature-D12Qn
Status Reporting

14. 1. Requirements met?
2. Opportunities to improve?
3. Lessons learned?
Success Validation

15. 1. TBD
Q&A