This webinar discusses time management and productivity. It will cover what time management means, the concept and limits of time, and why stopping time waste is important. The presentation will provide context on time management and finding a balance between priorities like business, health, family and personal growth. It will also discuss common time-wasting culprits and how to use time more effectively through strategies like consolidating tasks, tackling tough jobs first, and reducing unnecessary meetings. The webinar aims to help attendees better manage their limited time.

1. This webinar will begin shortly
Time Management:
Productivity and Time Stealers
Alan Power
Associate Consultant
Informa Middle East

2. Agenda
• What do we mean by Time Management?
• The concept of Time
• The limits of Time
• Why we need to stop wasting Time
• Putting Time Management into context
• Finding balance
• Everyone wants the same thing!
• What gets in your way?

3. Time Management is…..

5. The Flow
of Time

7. Time can’t
be recycled

8. The end
of Time

9. Your time is limited

11. Business & Career
Finances
Health & Fitness
Family & FriendsRomance
Personal Growth
Fun & Recreations
Physical
Environment

12. Achieving
balance

13. POINTLESSNESS
PAIN
PURPOSEFULNESS
PLEASURE opposed
opposed
Potentialunhappiness
Potentialhappiness Increase time of feelings Reduce time of feelings
Increase intensity of feelings Reduce intensity of feelings

14. What gets in
the way?

15. Time Wasting
Culprits

16. How to Use Time Effectively
•Consolidate similar tasks
•Tackle tough jobs first
•Delegate and develop others
•Learn to use idle time
•Get control of the paper flow
•Avoid the ‘cluttered desk syndrome’

17. How to Use Time Effectively
•Reduce meeting time
•Take time to plan – meeting purpose
and agenda
•Learn to say “no”

18. Stop Time Wasting Culprits
•Do not directly face open doors – it invites
distractions
•Leave specific messages on answering
machines, including when they may reach
you
•When visitors ‘beat around the bush’, ask
them how you can be of help – it gets them
to the point
•Interruptions are often part of your job –
keep them short to remain focused

19. Stop Time Wasting Culprits
•Take coffee breaks at unpopular times –
unless you need relevant ‘grapevine’
information
•Request that employees bring in their
recommendations along with their problems
•Keep clocks in prominent places for you and
your visitors
•Sort mail into action, future action,
background, and junk categories

21. Lack of
scheduling

23. Our Time
Management
Course

24. Do you have any
questions?