Time management involves planning, prioritizing and organizing one's activities to maximize productivity. It includes analyzing how time is spent, setting goals, and developing techniques to track time and minimize time wasted on less important tasks. Common time wasters include interruptions, procrastination, lack of focus, and failure to finish projects or prioritize tasks. The document provides tips for improving time management such as scheduling tasks, minimizing distractions, taking breaks to stay focused, and avoiding people who waste your time. Developing self-discipline and clarity around priorities are emphasized as important skills for effective time management.

1. Time Management

2. Ice Breaker

3. What is Time management ?

4. Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst. --William Penn

5. Story

6. IntroductionRange of skills, tools, and techniques Accomplishing specific tasks, projects and goalsBusiness or work activitiesPersonal activitiesCombination of processes, tools, techniques, and methods

7. What according to you is the meaning of time management ?

8. Expected AnswersPlanningAllocatingSetting goalsDelegationAnalysis of time spentMonitoringOrganizingSchedulingPrioritizing

9. Time Wasters

10. Activity

11. Clarity of Priorities Know your priorities you'll have a road map to guide your behaviormanaging competing prioritiesprovide a partial, complex compromiseWorking smarter is all about clarity of purposesimplicity of processDo not overcomplicate it with too many tools

12. Investment of Time It's been said that 80% of our results come from 20% of our efforts. Maximize your efforts by investing 80% of your timeDiscover the things that produce the greatest results

13. Interruptionstremendous drain and time waster. Interruptions, distractions, vistorsclose your doorunhook your telephoneget all your work done without any distractionssome of them become opportunities to help increase the productivity and effectiveness of your team

14. ConflictA conflict is an opposition of people, forces, or other entities

15. Conflict takes up energy and drains us of our ability

16. To be enthusiastic, focused and productive.

17. You'll have more energy and focus as a result.Personal Concerns During Business HoursPersonal issues including family problems, life changing situations, emotional difficulties, illness can impact your job and ultimately your ability to advance your career Try as you might to keep your private life separate from your work life Learn how to keep personal issues from negatively affecting your job Respect the boundaries between personal concerns and businessStay focused on the present task at hand while also minimizing distractions

18. ProcrastinationAct of replacing high-priority actions or tasks with low-priority actions Putting off important tasks to a later time May result in stress, a sense of guilt and crisis, severe loss of personal productivitySocial disapproval for not meeting responsibilities or commitments Indecision, daydreaming and delay Working with a professional

19. Lack of Self-DisciplineStructure supports our creativityKnowing what to pay attention to and living from this awarenessCreating the supports and structures that help us "stay on track" Fully honor our commitments

20. Unfinished ProjectsJumping from project to projectleaving tasks partly doneconstantly switching priorities tie up loose endsReview your financesIf you're desperate to finish these projects to make money, fear may be blocking your intuitionYou'll have trouble thinking clearly and setting priorities“Idea board" near your desk

21. SocializingHaving a welcoming attitudecan lead to disturbances and disruptionssocial visits that take up too much timevisits can come from superiors, peers, subordinates, or even personal friendssolution is to be strategic and manage by exceptionSend out a clear message that you are not available Postpone all socialization until office hours are overstand up as soon as somebody comes to your desk and keep standing until he or she leavesFine line and balance between the two

22. Guilt and Shoulds"Shoulds" come from the unexamined beliefs that unconsciously guide our behaviorguilt is the outcome of these "shoulds.“Identify your pre-existing beliefs Unexamined beliefs create guiltExplore what's really important to you NOW

23. Techniques in Time Management

25. Improving Yourself:How do you do a SWOT of yourself?

26. Strengths: What advantages do you have? What do you do well? What relevant resources do you have access to? What do other people see as your strengths?

27. Weaknesses: What could you improve? What do you do badly? What should you avoid?Are You not qualified fully for the future opportunities?

28. Opportunities:Where are the good opportunities facing you? What are the interesting trends you are aware of?Useful opportunities can come from such things as:Your immediate boss quittingAlternate portfolio in a related fieldAny personal Oppourtunities ?Eg Marriage

29. ThreatsWhat obstacles do you face? Are the required specifications for your job changing? Is changing technology threatening your position? Could any of your weaknesses seriously threaten your job?Is there any threat to you which will force you not to take the “Opportunity” when it comes along?

30. 6 simple Time Management tips

31. Email‘Ping' goes or the duck pops up Stop doing thatPostman arrived once a dayMute or disable whatever 'you have mail' signal you useDisable the automatic check and do it manually Four times a dayWhen you do open upRead

32. Action

33. Delegate

34. File or bin immediately, each email in turn

35. Be strict - you can do thisSubscriptionsMailing lists, blogs, feeds, social networking sitesMultiply like rabbitsTake time to readReduce the numbersUn-subscribe from ALL of them Re-subscribe only to the ones that you absolutely have to haveBetween two and three hours a week

36. TVTurn off the TV. Turn it on only when you want to watch somethingWhen you are done watching turn it off againBe selective about what you want to watch

37. Make a listMake a list of everythingYou would like to accomplishSort the prioritiesAnything that is geared towards generating income naturally outranks Schedule everything on the list

38. ScheduleBreak the whole day down, from start to finishProven to workTry not to allot more than two consecutive time chunksFinish each task within the allotted timeLiteral two or three minutesRe-schedule it Download a countdown timer and use itYou really strive to finish a given task within the allotted timeYou become aware of how and on what, your time is being spent in general

39. PhonesPut your cell phone on silent let it take messagesEvery time you find yourself distractedcheck yourself and focus again on the task at hand.simply make a note of it attend to it when appropriatehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc2Ks3lQew8