The document discusses effective time management strategies in a competitive and evolving environment. It emphasizes the importance of tracking time, prioritizing tasks, avoiding time stealers, and creating a structured schedule, including the use of 'to do' lists as a powerful visual tool. Additionally, it highlights common time wasters such as procrastination and lack of planning, urging awareness to combat them.

1. TIME
MANAGEMENT

2. TIME
• SCARCEST RESOURCE
• EXPERIENCED DIFFERENTLY
• CANNOT BE SAVED OR BORROWED

3. TIME AND TODAY’S WORLD
• COMPETITION
• CHANGE
• INDUSTRY DEMANDS

4. STEPS TO TAME TIME THAN GETTING
TIED DOWN
• Have a sense of time.
• Know where your time goes.
• Prepare a time log.
• Find Key Areas.
• Prioritise the jobs.
• Stick to the schedules.
• Do one job or one set of jobs.
• Complete one job and go to the next.
• Control/Avoid Time Stealers.

5. PLAN TO ALLOCATE TIME
• Visualize the end result: your goal
• Estimate the time required
• Break the whole into pieces
• Develop a schedule
• Check your progress against your time
estimate
• Refine the schedule if needed
• Anticipate/allow for possible problems

6. The “to do” list: a power tool
– IT’S A VISUAL SCHEDULE
– IT ACTS AS REMINDER
– IT GIVES DIRECTION
– YOU GET SATISFACTION WHEN
ITEMS ARE CROSSED OFF

7. Time wasters
• Be aware of ways in which you waste your
own time:
– Procrastination
– Lack of planning
– Lack of priorities
– Indecision
– Slow reading skills
– Physical or mental exhaustion
– Not being able to say “no”
– Low motivation
– Others you can think of ____________________