This short lesson on management English shows you how to discuss deadlines in business. This is very useful if you use English to manage employees or if you assign tasks using business English.
Continuing our series on the language of projects and project management, this lesson covers business English vocabulary related to project timelines.
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This document contains the agenda and notes from a speech preparation class. The agenda includes discussing speech topics, giving introductory speeches, and reviewing assignments. The notes provide tips for choosing a topic, including selecting something you are passionate about. A four-step process for choosing a topic is outlined. Students are asked to give a 1-2 minute introductory speech and the assignment to submit a topic by Sunday is reminded.
The document discusses vocabulary, which is defined as the set of words a person knows. It notes that acquiring vocabulary is important for communication, expression, and comprehension. It outlines different types of vocabulary including reading, listening, speaking, and writing vocabulary. Methods for building vocabulary are also discussed, including learning word parts like prefixes, suffixes, and roots. The importance of continuous vocabulary development is emphasized for tasks like reading, tests, and expression.
This document provides a list of transition words and phrases that are used to connect ideas in writing. It explains that transition words help improve writing by ensuring ideas are elegantly connected for the reader. The document then presents an extensive but not exhaustive list of approximately 200 commonly used English transition words organized into categories based on their meaning and function, such as addition, opposition, cause/condition, examples, and time. It concludes by discussing the usage of transition words in essays to improve coherence and logical organization between sentences and paragraphs.
This presentation covers business English vocabulary related to projects and project management. Visit www.BusinessEnglishPod.com to view the video version of this presentation.
The document discusses how to achieve unity and coherence in essays. It defines unity as relating all ideas to a single topic, such as only discussing the advantages of a topic rather than both advantages and disadvantages. Coherence is achieved through logical organization and using transition words and phrases to connect sentences and paragraphs. The document provides examples of different organizational structures and types of transition signals and devices that can be used to create coherence, such as pronoun references and repeating key nouns.
1. A word is the smallest meaningful unit of language that consists of sounds or combinations of sounds represented in text. Words can be formed by adding prefixes or suffixes to root words to create new words.
2. Prefixes and suffixes are added to root words to form new words and change the meaning. Common prefixes include un-, re-, pre-, and non-. Common suffixes include -ly, -ness, -ment, and -ion.
3. Word formation processes like blending, clipping, and compounding can also be used to form new words by combining parts of existing words. Proper spelling changes may apply when adding affixes depending on the word's root.
Continuing our series on the language of projects and project management, this lesson covers business English vocabulary related to project timelines.
Visit www.BusinessEnglishPod.com to view the video version of this presentation.
This document contains the agenda and notes from a speech preparation class. The agenda includes discussing speech topics, giving introductory speeches, and reviewing assignments. The notes provide tips for choosing a topic, including selecting something you are passionate about. A four-step process for choosing a topic is outlined. Students are asked to give a 1-2 minute introductory speech and the assignment to submit a topic by Sunday is reminded.
The document discusses vocabulary, which is defined as the set of words a person knows. It notes that acquiring vocabulary is important for communication, expression, and comprehension. It outlines different types of vocabulary including reading, listening, speaking, and writing vocabulary. Methods for building vocabulary are also discussed, including learning word parts like prefixes, suffixes, and roots. The importance of continuous vocabulary development is emphasized for tasks like reading, tests, and expression.
This document provides a list of transition words and phrases that are used to connect ideas in writing. It explains that transition words help improve writing by ensuring ideas are elegantly connected for the reader. The document then presents an extensive but not exhaustive list of approximately 200 commonly used English transition words organized into categories based on their meaning and function, such as addition, opposition, cause/condition, examples, and time. It concludes by discussing the usage of transition words in essays to improve coherence and logical organization between sentences and paragraphs.
This presentation covers business English vocabulary related to projects and project management. Visit www.BusinessEnglishPod.com to view the video version of this presentation.
The document discusses how to achieve unity and coherence in essays. It defines unity as relating all ideas to a single topic, such as only discussing the advantages of a topic rather than both advantages and disadvantages. Coherence is achieved through logical organization and using transition words and phrases to connect sentences and paragraphs. The document provides examples of different organizational structures and types of transition signals and devices that can be used to create coherence, such as pronoun references and repeating key nouns.
1. A word is the smallest meaningful unit of language that consists of sounds or combinations of sounds represented in text. Words can be formed by adding prefixes or suffixes to root words to create new words.
2. Prefixes and suffixes are added to root words to form new words and change the meaning. Common prefixes include un-, re-, pre-, and non-. Common suffixes include -ly, -ness, -ment, and -ion.
3. Word formation processes like blending, clipping, and compounding can also be used to form new words by combining parts of existing words. Proper spelling changes may apply when adding affixes depending on the word's root.
The document outlines the stages of the writing process, including prewriting, writing, revising, and editing. It provides details on each stage, such as choosing a topic, determining the audience and purpose, developing a thesis, creating an outline, drafting and revising content, and editing for grammar and style. The goal is to produce a clear, precise, and concise final draft that is appropriate for its intended audience and context.
This document defines and provides examples of different types of conjunctions that are used to join parts of sentences. There are coordinating conjunctions like and, but, or, nor that join words, phrases and independent clauses. Subordinating conjunctions like because, if, when introduce dependent clauses. Correlative conjunctions like both...and, either...or are pairs of conjunctions used together. Conjunctive adverbs like also, however provide logical connections and are followed by commas. Examples are provided to illustrate the use of each type of conjunction.
This document provides information about writing quotations for business. It defines a quotation as a business letter offering goods for sale at a certain price, terms, and conditions. It describes three common types of quotations and how to write an effective covering letter. It also provides examples and exercises for writing quotations, including sample structures, terms to include, and translations from Vietnamese to English.
This document discusses several skills related to subject-verb agreement including: making verbs agree after prepositional phrases, expressions of quantity, inverted structures, and certain singular words like "anybody" and "everybody". It provides examples to illustrate when verbs should be singular or plural depending on the subject in different contexts.
The document discusses transitions in writing. It defines transitions as words or phrases that connect sentences and paragraphs by establishing logical relationships. It provides examples of different types of transitions that can show similarity, sequence, contrast, emphasis, time, location, introduce examples or additional information, show cause and effect, and conclude ideas. The document encourages using longer transitional phrases to make writing sound more mature.
The document provides guidance on writing a problem-solution essay, including how to analyze the problem, define it for readers, identify possible readers, list potential solutions, choose the most promising solution to argue for, construct an argument for that solution by explaining how it would solve the problem and be possible to implement, anticipate and address counterarguments, consider alternative solutions, and develop a readable plan for the essay. It offers questions to help writers explore each part of the process in developing their essay.
Coherence refers to how meanings and sequences of ideas relate to each other in a logical way, such as from general to specific. Cohesion refers to the grammatical and lexical links within a text that give it meaning. There are various devices that can achieve cohesion, including reference, ellipsis, substitution, lexical repetition, and conjunctions. Together, coherence and cohesion work to create a unified text where the relationships between ideas are clear and the meaning flows smoothly from one sentence or paragraph to the next.
This document defines and provides examples of various grammatical terms including clauses, phrases, appositives, gerunds, infinitives, and participles. It distinguishes clauses from phrases by noting that clauses contain a subject and verb that agree, while phrases do not. Specifically, it defines noun phrases, verb phrases, prepositional phrases, and appositive phrases. It also discusses the two types of clauses - independent and dependent.
Affixation is the process of adding an affix, either a prefix or suffix, to a root word to form a new word or change the meaning. There are different types of prefixes that can be added, including negative prefixes like un- and non-, prefixes denoting size like arch- and super-, prefixes indicating attitude like co- and anti-, and locative prefixes showing location like super- and sub-. Suffixation is the specific process of adding an affix to the end of a word, with examples given of improvement and authorship. Prefixation involves adding a prefix to the base or beginning of a word, as seen in co-author.
The document discusses various categories of verbs including person, number, tense, and aspect. It explains that person associates a process with the speaker, addressee, or others. Number shows if a process involves one or more doers. Tense reflects time and expresses the relation between an action and the moment of speaking. Aspect expresses how an action is portrayed as proceeding, such as with continuous or perfective forms. The document also discusses challenges with classifying verbs and analyzing categories like future tense and aspect in English.
This document provides guidance on how to properly summarize sources to avoid plagiarism. It outlines several key steps: taking notes on key words and ideas rather than full sentences; paraphrasing by putting notes in your own words without copying; and citing sources. Quotes should only be used for direct examples or when the author expresses an idea better than you can. Common knowledge does not need to be cited but unique ideas do. To summarize properly, take notes, write a rough draft paraphrasing, check for accurate paraphrasing, and cite all sources in the bibliography.
This document discusses different types of sentences: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. It provides examples of each type of sentence and explains how they are constructed. A simple sentence contains one subject and one predicate. A compound sentence contains two or more independent clauses joined with coordinating conjunctions. A complex sentence contains one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses joined with subordinating conjunctions. A compound-complex sentence is a combination of the previous types.
Adverbial Clause (4th Group English Education Department Of IAIN Salatiga)Sam1998_
This document discusses adverbial clauses. It defines adverbial clauses as groups of words that play the role of an adverb and contain a subject and verb. It notes that adverbial clauses can modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs by answering questions like why, when, where, how, how much. The document also categorizes different types of adverbial clauses such as time, manner, place, reason, condition, concession, frequency, degree, probability, interrogative, and relative. It provides examples for each type and lists sources for more information.
The document discusses sentence fragments and what defines them. A fragment is a piece of text that is missing something that would make it a complete, independent sentence, such as a subject or verb. While fragments try to convey an idea or message, they ultimately fail because the meaning depends on additional context. Complete sentences must be able to stand alone and express a complete thought without relying on other sentences for clarification.
This document defines and provides examples of basic grammar terminology including sentences, clauses, phrases and their components. It explains that sentences are composed of clauses and phrases, where clauses contain both a subject and verb and phrases act like a single part of speech but do not contain both a subject and verb. Various types of phrases are classified based on their head word, such as prepositional, noun, verb, adjectival and adverbial phrases. Being able to identify clauses and phrases in sentences is important for understanding sentence structure and punctuation.
Coherence in writing refers to arranging ideas in a clear, logical way so that readers can easily understand the main points. When writing, authors should consider using different types of organization depending on their topic, such as chronological order for historical events or classification for grouping ideas. Cohesive devices like transitions, pronoun references, and repetition of key ideas help connect sentences and paragraphs to create a smooth flow of ideas. Examples of transitions include words like "before" and "after" for chronology or "similarly" and "however" for comparisons. Pronouns can refer back to nouns to link sentences, and repeating important words and phrases helps readers remember main ideas.
The document provides a lesson plan for teaching 4th grade students about prefixes, suffixes, and roots. It includes objectives, standards, procedures, materials, and an evaluation. The lesson plan introduces prefixes and suffixes using examples and a powerpoint. It discusses root words and provides activities for students to identify prefixes, suffixes, and roots in sentences. The purpose is for students to understand how these parts of words change word meanings. A quiz evaluates student learning.
This document provides strategies and tips for effective reading comprehension in 6 steps: before, during, and after reading. It recommends preparing for reading by activating background knowledge and making predictions. While reading, it suggests monitoring understanding, visualizing, and making connections. After reading, it advises reviewing questions, summarizing key details, and reflecting on the purpose and overall meaning of the text. The document aims to help readers actively engage with a text at each stage of the reading process.
The professor cast doubt on several key points made in the reading. First, he argued that meerkat sentinels eat before standing guard and are more likely to escape predators than the reading claimed, casting doubt on their supposed altruism. Second, he suggested human acts like organ donation are not truly altruistic as the reading claimed, since donors receive appreciation and a sense of self-worth, providing them personal benefits. In both cases, the professor challenged the core viewpoints expressed in the reading that the behaviors were selfless and altruistic by presenting alternative evidence and interpretations from recent studies.
Planning and scheduling are important workplace skills. Planning decides what tasks need to be done, how to accomplish them, and estimates timelines, while scheduling determines when tasks will be done and who will complete them. To create an effective work plan, one should write goals and deadlines, break projects into smaller tasks, arrange tasks in order, and schedule tasks on a daily or weekly basis working backwards from the deadline. Proper planning and scheduling can help businesses stay organized, meet deadlines, and improve productivity.
The document discusses time management techniques. It recommends setting SMART goals, prioritizing tasks by importance and urgency, setting time limits for tasks, taking breaks between tasks, using a calendar to plan long-term, removing non-essential tasks, and planning each day's tasks in advance. Poor time management can lead to poor workflow, wasted time, loss of control, poor work quality, and a poor reputation. The document outlines planning, prioritizing, and performing as key types of time management.
The document outlines the stages of the writing process, including prewriting, writing, revising, and editing. It provides details on each stage, such as choosing a topic, determining the audience and purpose, developing a thesis, creating an outline, drafting and revising content, and editing for grammar and style. The goal is to produce a clear, precise, and concise final draft that is appropriate for its intended audience and context.
This document defines and provides examples of different types of conjunctions that are used to join parts of sentences. There are coordinating conjunctions like and, but, or, nor that join words, phrases and independent clauses. Subordinating conjunctions like because, if, when introduce dependent clauses. Correlative conjunctions like both...and, either...or are pairs of conjunctions used together. Conjunctive adverbs like also, however provide logical connections and are followed by commas. Examples are provided to illustrate the use of each type of conjunction.
This document provides information about writing quotations for business. It defines a quotation as a business letter offering goods for sale at a certain price, terms, and conditions. It describes three common types of quotations and how to write an effective covering letter. It also provides examples and exercises for writing quotations, including sample structures, terms to include, and translations from Vietnamese to English.
This document discusses several skills related to subject-verb agreement including: making verbs agree after prepositional phrases, expressions of quantity, inverted structures, and certain singular words like "anybody" and "everybody". It provides examples to illustrate when verbs should be singular or plural depending on the subject in different contexts.
The document discusses transitions in writing. It defines transitions as words or phrases that connect sentences and paragraphs by establishing logical relationships. It provides examples of different types of transitions that can show similarity, sequence, contrast, emphasis, time, location, introduce examples or additional information, show cause and effect, and conclude ideas. The document encourages using longer transitional phrases to make writing sound more mature.
The document provides guidance on writing a problem-solution essay, including how to analyze the problem, define it for readers, identify possible readers, list potential solutions, choose the most promising solution to argue for, construct an argument for that solution by explaining how it would solve the problem and be possible to implement, anticipate and address counterarguments, consider alternative solutions, and develop a readable plan for the essay. It offers questions to help writers explore each part of the process in developing their essay.
Coherence refers to how meanings and sequences of ideas relate to each other in a logical way, such as from general to specific. Cohesion refers to the grammatical and lexical links within a text that give it meaning. There are various devices that can achieve cohesion, including reference, ellipsis, substitution, lexical repetition, and conjunctions. Together, coherence and cohesion work to create a unified text where the relationships between ideas are clear and the meaning flows smoothly from one sentence or paragraph to the next.
This document defines and provides examples of various grammatical terms including clauses, phrases, appositives, gerunds, infinitives, and participles. It distinguishes clauses from phrases by noting that clauses contain a subject and verb that agree, while phrases do not. Specifically, it defines noun phrases, verb phrases, prepositional phrases, and appositive phrases. It also discusses the two types of clauses - independent and dependent.
Affixation is the process of adding an affix, either a prefix or suffix, to a root word to form a new word or change the meaning. There are different types of prefixes that can be added, including negative prefixes like un- and non-, prefixes denoting size like arch- and super-, prefixes indicating attitude like co- and anti-, and locative prefixes showing location like super- and sub-. Suffixation is the specific process of adding an affix to the end of a word, with examples given of improvement and authorship. Prefixation involves adding a prefix to the base or beginning of a word, as seen in co-author.
The document discusses various categories of verbs including person, number, tense, and aspect. It explains that person associates a process with the speaker, addressee, or others. Number shows if a process involves one or more doers. Tense reflects time and expresses the relation between an action and the moment of speaking. Aspect expresses how an action is portrayed as proceeding, such as with continuous or perfective forms. The document also discusses challenges with classifying verbs and analyzing categories like future tense and aspect in English.
This document provides guidance on how to properly summarize sources to avoid plagiarism. It outlines several key steps: taking notes on key words and ideas rather than full sentences; paraphrasing by putting notes in your own words without copying; and citing sources. Quotes should only be used for direct examples or when the author expresses an idea better than you can. Common knowledge does not need to be cited but unique ideas do. To summarize properly, take notes, write a rough draft paraphrasing, check for accurate paraphrasing, and cite all sources in the bibliography.
This document discusses different types of sentences: simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex. It provides examples of each type of sentence and explains how they are constructed. A simple sentence contains one subject and one predicate. A compound sentence contains two or more independent clauses joined with coordinating conjunctions. A complex sentence contains one independent clause and one or more dependent clauses joined with subordinating conjunctions. A compound-complex sentence is a combination of the previous types.
Adverbial Clause (4th Group English Education Department Of IAIN Salatiga)Sam1998_
This document discusses adverbial clauses. It defines adverbial clauses as groups of words that play the role of an adverb and contain a subject and verb. It notes that adverbial clauses can modify verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs by answering questions like why, when, where, how, how much. The document also categorizes different types of adverbial clauses such as time, manner, place, reason, condition, concession, frequency, degree, probability, interrogative, and relative. It provides examples for each type and lists sources for more information.
The document discusses sentence fragments and what defines them. A fragment is a piece of text that is missing something that would make it a complete, independent sentence, such as a subject or verb. While fragments try to convey an idea or message, they ultimately fail because the meaning depends on additional context. Complete sentences must be able to stand alone and express a complete thought without relying on other sentences for clarification.
This document defines and provides examples of basic grammar terminology including sentences, clauses, phrases and their components. It explains that sentences are composed of clauses and phrases, where clauses contain both a subject and verb and phrases act like a single part of speech but do not contain both a subject and verb. Various types of phrases are classified based on their head word, such as prepositional, noun, verb, adjectival and adverbial phrases. Being able to identify clauses and phrases in sentences is important for understanding sentence structure and punctuation.
Coherence in writing refers to arranging ideas in a clear, logical way so that readers can easily understand the main points. When writing, authors should consider using different types of organization depending on their topic, such as chronological order for historical events or classification for grouping ideas. Cohesive devices like transitions, pronoun references, and repetition of key ideas help connect sentences and paragraphs to create a smooth flow of ideas. Examples of transitions include words like "before" and "after" for chronology or "similarly" and "however" for comparisons. Pronouns can refer back to nouns to link sentences, and repeating important words and phrases helps readers remember main ideas.
The document provides a lesson plan for teaching 4th grade students about prefixes, suffixes, and roots. It includes objectives, standards, procedures, materials, and an evaluation. The lesson plan introduces prefixes and suffixes using examples and a powerpoint. It discusses root words and provides activities for students to identify prefixes, suffixes, and roots in sentences. The purpose is for students to understand how these parts of words change word meanings. A quiz evaluates student learning.
This document provides strategies and tips for effective reading comprehension in 6 steps: before, during, and after reading. It recommends preparing for reading by activating background knowledge and making predictions. While reading, it suggests monitoring understanding, visualizing, and making connections. After reading, it advises reviewing questions, summarizing key details, and reflecting on the purpose and overall meaning of the text. The document aims to help readers actively engage with a text at each stage of the reading process.
The professor cast doubt on several key points made in the reading. First, he argued that meerkat sentinels eat before standing guard and are more likely to escape predators than the reading claimed, casting doubt on their supposed altruism. Second, he suggested human acts like organ donation are not truly altruistic as the reading claimed, since donors receive appreciation and a sense of self-worth, providing them personal benefits. In both cases, the professor challenged the core viewpoints expressed in the reading that the behaviors were selfless and altruistic by presenting alternative evidence and interpretations from recent studies.
Planning and scheduling are important workplace skills. Planning decides what tasks need to be done, how to accomplish them, and estimates timelines, while scheduling determines when tasks will be done and who will complete them. To create an effective work plan, one should write goals and deadlines, break projects into smaller tasks, arrange tasks in order, and schedule tasks on a daily or weekly basis working backwards from the deadline. Proper planning and scheduling can help businesses stay organized, meet deadlines, and improve productivity.
The document discusses time management techniques. It recommends setting SMART goals, prioritizing tasks by importance and urgency, setting time limits for tasks, taking breaks between tasks, using a calendar to plan long-term, removing non-essential tasks, and planning each day's tasks in advance. Poor time management can lead to poor workflow, wasted time, loss of control, poor work quality, and a poor reputation. The document outlines planning, prioritizing, and performing as key types of time management.
The document discusses compressed workweeks, where employees work longer hours over fewer days in order to fulfill their standard work hours in a week. It describes potential benefits for both employers and employees, such as energy savings, extended office hours, better work-life balance, and three-day weekends. The document also outlines considerations for implementing a compressed workweek schedule, including determining employee eligibility and managing paid time off and holidays.
Kyiv Project Management Day 2016 Іванна Заєць: Основи ПМа (PM’s Essentials)
Сайт конференції: http://pmday.org/
Спільнота в мережі Linkedin: http://bit.ly/PMDayLin
Спільнота в мережі facebook: http://bit.ly/PMDayKyivFB
Twitter конференції: https://twitter.com/LvivPMDay
The document is an assessment report from Cem Kilinc, Head of project development at Leatty, regarding the construction project in Shanghai that has faced multiple delays. It recommends establishing an intranet and quarterly meetings to improve coordination and communication. It also suggests implementing a mentoring program, team-building events, and rewards to boost employee morale. Finally, it advises calculating more delays into the schedule as a safety buffer and making all deadlines clear to avoid future issues. The goal is to remodel operations to reduce delays and allow the Shanghai project to be completed on time and successfully.
The document is an assessment report from Cem Kilinc, Head of project development at Leatty, about a construction project in Shanghai that has faced delays. It recommends establishing an intranet and quarterly meetings to improve coordination and communication. It also suggests implementing a mentoring program, team-building events, and rewards to boost employee morale. Finally, it advises calculating more delays into the schedule as a safety buffer and making all deadlines clear to avoid future issues. The goal is to remodel operations to reduce delays and allow the Shanghai project to be completed on time and efficiently.
ABC Method Time Management - What It Is & How to ImplementTime Doctor
Developed by Alan Lakein, an American author, the ABC method for time management is a simple yet effective way to improve your time and task management skills.
In the ABC method, you break down daily tasks by prioritizing them based on importance and urgency. This way, you can manage your time efficiently and get more done by prioritizing the right tasks.
This article explores the ABC analysis method and 12 ways to implement it in your life.
Original Blog: https://biz30.timedoctor.com/abc-method-time-management/
This document outlines steps for creating a project plan, including allocating tasks, building a schedule, determining costs, adding milestones and contingency. Key points:
- Tasks are allocated to individuals who are available to complete the work. A schedule is then built based on task dependencies, resource availability, and exclusions for weekends and holidays.
- Costs include those associated with running the project like personnel time, and costs to create deliverables.
- Milestones are added to communicate progress. Contingency is included either as a top-down percentage or bottom-up review of individual tasks to account for risk.
- Before moving forward, the plan is reviewed to ensure it is feasible given available time,
The document provides information about time management. It begins with an agenda for a time management lesson that will help students organize their time to increase effectiveness when studying and working in a call center. It then defines time management and lists benefits such as stress relief, having more time and opportunities, and achieving goals. The document also provides tips for effective time management, such as setting goals, prioritizing tasks, taking breaks, and removing non-essential tasks. It discusses implications of poor time management like poor workflow, wasted time, loss of control, and poor quality work. Finally, it introduces new vocabulary related to time management.
10 Amazing Benefits of Time Management (+ Tips & Tools)Time Doctor
This document covers the 10 key benefits of time management and six smart tips for managing time efficiently. It also highlights the best tool available today for easy time management.
Original Blog: https://biz30.timedoctor.com/benefits-of-time-management/
The document discusses reframing employer-employee relationships based on Reid Hoffman's book "The Alliance". It proposes three key solutions:
1. Building alignment between company and employee goals through honest conversations to define expectations and find common missions and values.
2. Implementing "Tours of Duty" as short-term, project-based work to support mutual goals through rotational, transformational, and foundational levels of commitment.
3. Embracing network intelligence and alumni networks to foster lifelong relationships that benefit both employees and employers over the long run.
Using Goals to Become a Successful EntrepreneurJohn Lemp
The document discusses how setting goals and tracking progress towards those goals is important for business success, especially for new entrepreneurs. It provides examples of how to write goals, objectives, and tasks to support those goals for a sample bakery business. Key steps include:
1. Define goals that are the desired outcomes and objectives that are the critical tasks to achieve the goals.
2. Break objectives down into sequential tasks with time estimates for completion.
3. Use a calendar to enter deadlines for objectives and tasks based on start dates and time estimates to track progress.
4. Regularly review progress on the calendar to help ensure all tasks and objectives are completed on time to achieve the defined goals.
The document discusses the differences between effectiveness and efficiency. It states that effectiveness refers to how useful or productive actions are in achieving desired results, while efficiency refers to how quickly or resource-efficiently a task can be completed. An effective employee consistently achieves sales, while an inefficient one struggles. Efficiency saves both time and money. Overall, effectiveness ensures you work on the right things, while efficiency focuses on performing tasks productively.
1. The document discusses defining the scope of a project, including writing a basic statement of what is being made, choosing a general approach, providing a detailed description, work breakdown structure, and action plan.
2. It covers estimating time and costs through techniques like early estimation, research, and assigning dollar values to tasks.
3. Detailed scheduling involves ordering tasks, assigning resources, estimating durations, and accounting for dependencies to create a project schedule.
4. Budgeting completes the planning process by assigning costs to all scheduled tasks and resources.
Time management refers to planning and exercising control over how time is spent on specific activities. It involves using skills, tools, and techniques to accomplish tasks and goals more effectively and efficiently. Key time management skills include setting goals, planning and scheduling, prioritizing, decision making, and delegating. Improving time management involves making to-do lists, scheduling blocks of time for each task in order of priority, being reasonable about what can be accomplished each day, breaking larger projects into smaller pieces, pairing tasks, and taking time to relax.
The document summarizes time management skills presented by Dr. B. Victor. It discusses prioritizing tasks, identifying time wasters, making schedules, and setting goals. Key points include using the "pickle jar theory" to prioritize important vs. urgent tasks, recognizing good and bad use of time, and overcoming barriers like poor planning and inability to say no to take control of one's schedule.
Job design is the process of organizing tasks, duties, and responsibilities within a job to meet organizational needs like productivity and efficiency as well as individual needs like interests and challenges. The major goal of job design is to integrate organizational requirements with individual needs. Approaches to job design include engineering, human relations, job characteristics, and social technical systems. Specific job design methods include job simplification, job enlargement, job rotation, and job enrichment.
The document discusses flexible work practices that can help improve employee well-being and work-life balance while still meeting business needs. It describes allowing flexible working hours, part-time work, job sharing, and working from home. These practices help reduce employee burnout, turnover, and boost retention while accommodating personal lives and business demands. Implementing flexible options can create a more positive and productive work environment.
This document provides several productivity tips for entrepreneurs in 2022. It recommends making a routine by starting work at the same time each day to stay focused. Entrepreneurs should avoid multitasking as it prevents full focus and leads to feelings of distraction. Taking breaks is important but they should be limited in duration to maintain discipline. Entrepreneurs should delegate tasks where possible and divide their day into blocks of time dedicated to specific tasks to stay organized.
- The three critical skills you need to manage multiple projects webinar
Monday 24 April 2023
APM Women in Project Management Specific Interest Group
Presented by:
Elizabeth Harrin
The link to the write up page and resources of this webinar:
https://www.apm.org.uk/news/the-three-critical-skills-you-need-to-manage-multiple-projects-webinar/
Content description:
In this webinar, Elizabeth Harrin shared the skills you need to develop to get your to do list under control so you can spend less time juggling and more time moving your projects forward.
Elizabeth explained:
- The five things that make managing multiple projects different to just leading one project.
- Her favourite method for managing your time across multiple projects.
- The best way to sequence your projects.
- The one thing that´s killing your communications and what do about it.
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Success is often not achievable without facing and overcoming obstacles along the way. To reach our goals and achieve success, it is important to understand and resolve the obstacles that come in our way.
In this article, we will discuss the various obstacles that hinder success, strategies to overcome them, and examples of individuals who have successfully surmounted their obstacles.
Learnings from Successful Jobs SearchersBruce Bennett
Are you interested to know what actions help in a job search? This webinar is the summary of several individuals who discussed their job search journey for others to follow. You will learn there are common actions that helped them succeed in their quest for gainful employment.
In the intricate tapestry of life, connections serve as the vibrant threads that weave together opportunities, experiences, and growth. Whether in personal or professional spheres, the ability to forge meaningful connections opens doors to a multitude of possibilities, propelling individuals toward success and fulfillment.
Eirini is an HR professional with strong passion for technology and semiconductors industry in particular. She started her career as a software recruiter in 2012, and developed an interest for business development, talent enablement and innovation which later got her setting up the concept of Software Community Management in ASML, and to Developer Relations today. She holds a bachelor degree in Lifelong Learning and an MBA specialised in Strategic Human Resources Management. She is a world citizen, having grown up in Greece, she studied and kickstarted her career in The Netherlands and can currently be found in Santa Clara, CA.
Joyce M Sullivan, Founder & CEO of SocMediaFin, Inc. shares her "Five Questions - The Story of You", "Reflections - What Matters to You?" and "The Three Circle Exercise" to guide those evaluating what their next move may be in their careers.
A Guide to a Winning Interview June 2024Bruce Bennett
This webinar is an in-depth review of the interview process. Preparation is a key element to acing an interview. Learn the best approaches from the initial phone screen to the face-to-face meeting with the hiring manager. You will hear great answers to several standard questions, including the dreaded “Tell Me About Yourself”.
Time for an overhaul. Trainers and trainees unite!
The Silver Spring Leadership has spent the last six months collecting thoughts, ideas, and feedback on what our membership wants from the Chapter to help them on their PMI journey.
We've listened and now we're hosting a workshop during our June virtual meeting to give you our pitch and collect final feedback. Before we design our new page of resources we want to hear from:
Local, certified PMI trainers who teach PMI courses. We want to highlight you and provide your resources to our members.
Members and non-members who are new to PMI course work for certifications, or looking to start. We want to hear if our solution tackle the challenges we've heard you're facing.
Three of PMISSC's membership advocates will lead three discussions on the offerings we're rolling out and facilitate a discussion on your thoughts and desires in these areas. Register for the topic you would like to participate in.
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We are a branch of the Project Management Institute. We offer a platform for project management professionals in Silver Spring, MD, and the DC/Baltimore metro area. Monthly meetings facilitate networking, knowledge sharing, and professional development. For more, visit pmissc.org.
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2. A deadline describes when work or a task
must be completed. In some situations, the
manager ‘set’s the deadline and in other
situations everyone agrees on a deadline.
A deadline is usually a day and a date. For
example, your manager might tell you that
you need to finish some work before Friday,
May 15th.
Managers use deadlines to organize the
work of their teams. Having a deadline also
means that a manager can check on
progress.
MEANING
a deadline in
business
3. “My manager always sets tough deadlines for
work. Last week, she set a very tight deadline
for me to complete the marketing strategy
report.
I’ll try to meet her deadline, but I’m concerned
that I might miss this deadline so tomorrow
I’m going to meet Ms. Green to ask her if I
can extend the deadline by one week.”
BUSINESS CONVERSATION
How is it
used in
business?
4. to set a [tough / tight] deadline
In business, a manager sets a deadline to
clarify when someone in his team must
complete work or finish a task. Some
managers set tough or tight deadlines so their
team has to work productively.
For example:
“Mr. Brown set a two-week deadline to submit
the sales report. This is a really tough
deadline. It’s going to be difficult to complete
the report in such a tight deadline.”
to set a
[tough / tight]
deadline
DIFFERENT WAYS TO USE IT
5. to meet a deadline / to miss a
deadline
To meet a deadline means that the person
has completed his task on time. To miss a
deadline means that the task hasn’t been
completed on time.
For example:
“If we work hard, I believe we can meet the
project completion deadline. However, I’m
concerned that we might miss the deadline
for submitting the final report.”
to meet /
miss a
deadline
DIFFERENT WAYS TO USE IT
6. to extend a deadline
This means that you can’t meet your
deadline. You need more time to complete a
task, so your manager changes the deadline
to a later date to give you more time.
For example:
“The deadline for completing this project is
very tight. We might need to extend the
deadline by one week because I think we
won’t meet this deadline.”
to extend a
deadline
DIFFERENT WAYS TO USE IT