This document provides information on time management. It begins by outlining goals of a time management session, which include clarifying goals, handling time wasters, delegation, efficiency, overcoming stress and procrastination. It then defines time management and explains why it is needed to increase productivity, effectiveness and efficiency. Specific techniques discussed include effective planning, setting goals and deadlines, prioritizing tasks, and spending time on important activities. Poor time management behaviors are also outlined. Throughout, the document emphasizes setting goals, priorities, planning, and scheduling to make the most of time.

1. Time Management

2. Always Late

3. “Remember that time is
money”
Ben Franklin, 1748

4. By the End of the Session
You will be able to
 Clarify your goals and achieve them
 Handle people and projects that waste your time
 Be involved in better delegation
 Work more efficiently with your Boss/Advisor/Colleague
 Learn specific skills and tools to save your time
 Overcome stress and Procrastination

5. Time Management
 Time management is the act of taking conscious control
over the amount of the time spent on specific activities.
 You exercise time management to increase productivity,
effectiveness and efficiency.
 You practice skills and use tools and techniques to aid
you when accomplishment tasks, projects or are working
toward goals and deadlines.

6. Why Do We Need TM?
 To save time
 To reduce stress
 To increase our work output
 To have more control over our job responsibilities
 Bad time management = stress

7. How To Use Time Effectively
 Effective planning
 Setting goals and objectives
 Setting deadlines
 Delegation of responsibilities
 Prioritizing activities as per their importance
 Spending the right time on the right activity.

8. Poor time management
1. Constant rushing (e.g. between meetings or tasks)
2. Frequent delays (e.g. in attending meetings, meeting deadlines)
3. Low productivity, energy and motivation (e.g. I can’t seem to get
worked up about anything’)
4. Frustration (e.g. ‘oh, things just don’t move ahead)
5. Impatience (e.g. ‘where the hell is that information I’ve asked him
for’?)
6. Difficulty setting and achieving goals (e.g. ‘I’m not sure is expected
of me’)

9. There is a time for everything
 A time to be born and a time to die
 A time to plant and a time to uproot
 A time to love and a time to hate
 A time to weep and a time to laugh
 A time mourn and a time to dance
 A time to tear and a time to mend/repair
 A time to be silent and a time to speak
 A time to tear down and a time to build
 A time to search and a time to give up
 A time to keep and a time to throw away

10. THERE IS
A TIME AND
PLACE FOR
EVERYTHING

11. Hear me Now, Believe me later
“Being successful doesn’t make you
manage your time well, Managing your
time well makes you successful”

12. Goals, Priorities, and Planning
 Why am I doing this?
 What is the goal?
 Why will I succeed?
 What happens If I chose not to do it?

13. TO DO LIST
 Break things down into small steps
 Like a child cleaning his/her room
 Do the ugliest thing first

14. Time Management Process
 Making activity logs
 Goal setting
 Planning
 Prioritizing
 Scheduling

15. Making Activity Logs:
 Make a realistic estimate of time.
 Pinpoint the critical areas
 Finding the high yielding time of our day

16. Goal Setting:
 Setting lifetime goals help to chart your life course and
your career path.
 Breakup your lifetime goal in smaller goals.
 Make a daily To-Do list
 Revise and update your list on daily bases and judge
your performance.

17. Planning:
 Failing to plan is planning to fail
 Plan Each Day, Each Week, Each Semester
 You can always change your plan, but only once you
have one!

18. Prioritizing:
 Make a To-Do List.
 Consider the value of the task before to do it- Is it
worth spending your time and company resources.
 Prioritize your task- The most important jobs should
be completed first followed by others jobs.

19. Ephesians 5:15-17
15 Be very careful, then, how you live-not
as unwise but as wise, 16 making the most
of every opportunity, because the days are
evil. 17 Therefore do not be foolish, but
understand what the Lord’s will is

20. So what is Time for you?

21. TIME
IS
A
GIFT

22. “Mariah”
Mary Ann Villar-Eltagunde