Time Management

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Time Management
November 2019
Naomi Blackwell
Senior Careers Consultant

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Agenda
Objective: Understand and implement established time management
techniques to better manage immediate time pressures and proactively embed
longer-term coping mechanisms to be more productive.
• Personal importance of time management
• Professional importance of time management
• What is time management?
• Prioritisation
• Planning
• Avoid Procrastination
• Environment and ways of working
• Next steps

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Personal importance of time management
- Productivity
- Confidence
- Realisation of goals
- Energy
- Discipline and control
- Quality of work
- Relaxation
- Stress and anxiety
- Missed opportunities
- Impact on sleep and
health
- Difficulty saying ‘no’
- Lowering standards
- Impact on
relationships
Improving
Reducing

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Professional importance of time management
• “Be used to dealing effectively with multiple concurrent challenges on
multiple sites.”
- Business Continuity Advisor at AstraZeneca
• “Comfortable working autonomously in a fast-paced, demanding
environment, under pressure.”
- Analytics Business Partner at FaceBook
• “You are deadline driven, team focused, adaptable and have excellent time
management and organizational skills.”
- Partner Success Manager at Expedia Group
• “Comfortable working towards fast deadlines.”
- Senior HR Business Partner at Toyota

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What is time management?
https://www.time-management-success.com/definition-of-time-management.html

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Prioritisation

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Planning

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Avoid Procrastination

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Environment and ways of working

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Next Steps
Be conscious of your goals.
Identify the areas/projects that requires better time management.
Select the most appropriate method for each and implement.
Involve/Inform other people if necessary/helpful.
Mark a future date in your diary to evaluate.

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Resources
“The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
Book”, Peter Drucker (1966).
LinkedIn Learning course: “Improving Your Focus”.
“Why It's Easy to Procrastinate and 7 Ways to Break the Habit”, Psychology Today (2016).
“Why You Procrastinate, and How to Stop It. Now.”, Forbes (2013).
“Introducing the Eisenhower Matrix”, Eisenhower (2017).
“Use the Time Management Matrix to Manage Your Time”, Time Management Success.
“23 Time Management Techniques of Insanely Busy People”, Dan Silvestre.

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