Introdcution to Time Management

1. TIME MANAGEMENT

3. TIME AND EFFECTIVENESS THERE IS NOT AN AUTOMATIC CORRELATION BETWEEN WORKING HARD AND BEING EFFECTIVE. MANY PEOPLE ARE WORKING HARD BUT ARE NOT WORKING EFFECTIVELY

4. TIME IS LIFE. IT IS BOTH IRREVERSABLE AND IRREPLACEABLE. TO WASTE YOUR TIME IS TO WASTE YOUR LIFE, BUT TO MASTER TIME IS TO MASTER YOUR LIFE AND TO THEN MAKE THE MOST OF IT. ALAN LARKIN

5. A DEFINITION MAXIMISING THE USE OF THE TIME THAT IS AVAILABLE TO ALLOW EACH INDIVIDUAL TO BEST ACHIEVE THEIR LIFE’S GOALS AND OBJECTIVES .

6. FACT WE ARE ALL MANAGING TIME TO SOME EXTENT BUT IF WE DO IT BETTER WE CAN END UP WITH OUR LIVES BECOMING MORE COMPLETE WITH MORE FULFILLMENT

10. WHY DO WE NEED IT? ALMOST ALL ASPECTS OF MOST PEOPLES LIVES HAVE BECOME MORE COMPLICATED AND THE DEMANDS BEING PLACED ON US ARE INCREASING

11. FEELING THE PRESSURE PRESSURE EXISTS WHEN THERE IS AN IMBALANCE BETWEEN DEMNDS BEING PLACED ON YOU AND YOUR ABILITY TO DEAL WITH ALL OF THESE DEMANDS

19. When you know what your specific objectives are concerning your distant, immediate and intermediate goals, you will be more apt to recognise that which will help you to achieve them and be more content. N. Clement Stone

22. PERSONAL SUCCESS WHEEL

23. WHAT IS A PRIORTY? SOMETHING THAT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE

28. PRIORITIES TIME MANAGEMENT IS NOT ACTUALLY ABOUT MANAGING TIME. ITS ABOUT MANAGING PRIORITIES. SURPRISINGLY WE DO NOT AUTOMATICALLY FOCUS ON THE THINGS THAT ARE MOST IMPORTANT .

30. TIME WASTING 90% OF ALL MANAGERS ARE SPENDING AT LEAST 50% THEIR TIME ON UNIMPORTANT TASKS. Harvard Business Review 2002

31. TIME WASTE DIFFERS FROM MATERIAL WASTE IN THAT THERE CAN BE NO SALVAGE. WASTED TIME DOES NOT LITTER THE FLOOR LIKE WASTED MATERIAL Henry Ford.

32. THE MAIN THING IS TO KEEP THE MAIN THING THE MAIN THING. Stephen Covey

33. THE WORK DILEMA

34. LIST YOUR TASKS KEEP COMPREHENSIVE LISTS OF ALL THINGS YOU WANT TO DO AND ALL THINGS THAT YOU NEED TO DO EXTRACT THESE FROM ALL SOURCES NOTES, EMAILS, MEMOS, MEETING MINUTES, WEBSITES, ARTICLES ETC.

35. PULL IT TOGETHER MEETING MINUTES ACTION PLANS MESSAGES EMAILS MEMOS MY AGENDA

38. PLOT THEM ON A GRAPH

39. TIME MANGEMENT CYCLE

40. URGENCY ENGULFS MANAGERS; YET URGENT TASKS ARE NOT ALWAYS THE MOST IMPORTANT. THE TYRANY OR THE URGENT LIES IN ITS DISTORTION OF PRIORITIES. ONE OF THE MEASURES OF A GOOD MANAGER IS HIS OR HER ABILITY TO DISTINGUISH WHAT IS IMPORTANT AND WHAT IS URGENT AND TO REFUSE TO MANAGE BY CRISIS. ALEC MACKENZIE

43. YOUR ATTITUDE TO TIME 3 KEY ISSUES PERFECTIONISM Things take too long or stack up PROCRASTINATION Put things off Until the last Minute PLANNING Looking ahead And balancing Tasks

46. SET UP A WEEKLY PLAN FAIL TO PLAN PLAN TO FAIL

48. WEEKLY PLAN

49. WEEKLY WORKSHEET

50. DAILY WORKSHEET

53. THE BRAIN RESPONDS TO COLOUR

56. WORKING EFFECTIVELY WORKING EFFECTIVELY MEANS ACHIEVING WHAT YOU HAD PLANNED TO DO OR WHAT YOU HAD AGREED TO DO.

57. MANAGING YOUR DAY Rejuvenate Good time for problem solving Good time for creativity Bad time to concentrate 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 Action MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR DAY

64. NOTHING IS EASIER THAT BEING BUSY AND NOTHING IS MORE DIFFICULT THAT BEING EFFECTIVE Alec MacKenzie

66. THE END ANY QUESTIONS?