TIME MANAGEMENT Time Management skills are essential for

TIME MANAGEMENT Time Management skills are essential for successful people these are the practical techniques which have helped the leading people in business, sport and public service reach the pinnacles of their careers.

Time Management Skills • Costing Your Time – Finding out how much your time costs • Deciding Work Priorities – Doing tasks which add the greatest value • Activity Logs – Understanding where you lose time • Small-Scale Planning – Action Plans • Prioritized To Do Lists – Doing the most important things first • Personal Goal Setting – Planning to Live Your Life Your Way

Time Management Tips • • • Daily Schedules Don't be a perfectionist Learn to Prioritize Combine several activities Conclusion – After scheduling becomes a habit, then you can adjust it. It's better to be precise at first. It is easier to find something to do with extra time then to find extra time to do something. Most importantly, make it work for you. A time schedule that is not personalized and honest is not a time schedule at all.

Manage Yourself - Not Your Time 1. Shifting priorities and crisis management 2. The telephone 3. Lack of priorities/objectives 4. Attempting too much 5. Drop in visitors 6. Ineffective delegation 7. The cluttered desk 8. Procrastination 9. The inability to say "no!“ 10. Meetings

The 80: 20 Rule This is the Pareto Principle • This argues that typically 80% of unfocussed effort generates only 20% of results. • The remaining 80% of results are achieved with only 20% of the effort.

TIME MANAGEMENT How people handle time is dictated by their brain processing style and the way in which they perceive time. The following table illustrates the way the two styles handle time. • • • Strong analytics ( left-brain processors) Are highly organised are overly punctual Plan their day Enjoy using time-planners and diaries Keep to-do lists Find routine reassuring Plan activities in advance Live with real-time frames Usually prefer morning hours Strong holistics ( right-brain processors ) • Are chaotic • Find keeping appointments difficult • Tend to lose track of time • dislike formal schedules • Find lists depressing • Find routine limiting and boring • are spontaneous • Live with a diffused time concept • Usually function better

SOFTWARE ON TIME MANAGEMENT • Goal. Pro 5 – Goal. Pro is a powerful software package which helps you to set and monitor the achievement of personal goals. Using Goal. Pro regularly helps you to get into the habit of setting and achieving personal goals • ACT ! 2000 – ACT is the market-leading contact management software package. If you are in a role which involves keeping in contact with many people, ACT will make this much easier, helping you to keep your commitments and stay organized. The version of ACT!2000 shown is downloadable, and runs on Win 95/98/NT & 2000. • Online Organizing – Online Organizing provide a wide range of useful products and services helping you to organize your life and manage your time effectively.

The HEART of Time Management Concentrate on results, not on being busy - Siddesh. S