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General Category => Common Forum => Topic started by: rumman on July 02, 2010, 02:35:15 PM
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Time Management
This section of Mind Tools teaches you personal time management skills. These are the simple, practical techniques that have helped the leading people in business, sport and public service reach the pinnacles of their careers.
The skills we explain help you become highly effective, by showing you how to identify and focus on the activities that give you the greatest returns. Investing in these time management activities will actually save you time, helping you work smarter, not harder. What's more, these same techniques help you beat work overload – a key source of stress.
You'll finish by learning about goal setting, a vitally important skill for deciding what you want to achieve with your life
That something could be your skills and abilities to
• set priorities and manage your time to meet deadlines,
• set and achieve goals,
• effectively organize your daily actions,
• make smarter decisions faster,
• uncover better options,
• work in a team or build one,
• prevent burnout,
How Good is Your Time Management? - "Zero in" on the time management skills that will help you most.
Beating Procrastination – Manage your time. Get it all done.
Activity Logs – Know where your time goes.
Prioritized To Do Lists – Taking control of your time.
Action Programs – Becoming exceptionally well organized.
Prioritization – Making best use of your time and resources.
Effective Scheduling – Bringing your workload under control.
Personal Goal Setting – Planning to live your life your way.
Locke's Goal Setting Theory – Understanding SMART goal setting.
The Golden Rules of Goal Setting – Five rules to set yourself up for success.
Backward Goal Setting – Using backward planning to set goals.
In Flow – Maximizing productivity through improved focus.
Leverage – Achieve much more with the same effort.
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Time management skills are your abilities to recognize and solve personal time management problems. The goal of these time management lessons is to show you what you can do to improve those skills.
With good time management skills you are in control of your time and your life, of your stress and energy levels. You make progress at work. You are able to maintain balance between your work, personal, and family lives. You have enough flexibility to respond to surprises or new opportunities.
All time management skills are learnable. More than likely you will see much improvement from simply becoming aware of the essence and causes of common personal time management problems. With these time management lessons, you can see better which time management techniques are most relevant for your situation.
Just get started with them. Many of your problems gradually disappear.
If you already know how you should be managing your time, but you still don't do it, don't give up. What you may be overlooking is the psychological side of your time management skills, psychological obstacles hidden behind your personality.
Depending on your personal situation, such obstacles may be the primary reason why you procrastinate, have difficulties saying no, delegating, or making time management decisions.
The psychological component of your time management skills can also be dealt with. The time management skills information below will point at a relevant solution for your situation.
Get Organized Now :
Ideas, tips, tools and more to help you organize your home, your office and your life!
How to avoid procrastination :
Ability to beat procrastination and laziness is among the most important time management skills to learn. Identify your causes of procrastination and start fighting it now.
Decision making skills and techniques guide :
Good decision making skills is the foundation for life and time management skills. Information on decision making skills and techniques with links to related decision making articles and resources.
Prioritizing techniques save your time and energy :
Prioritizing skills allow you to focus on what is most important. Learn to set priorities wisely, and you will achieve more and will have more of personal or family time.
What is planning and why you need to plan :
Planning as an important time management technique. Planning optimizes your efforts of achieving a goal.
Action plan techniques :
Learn to plan efficiently. Simple and powerful techniques to convert your goals and ideas into an effective action plan.
Effective delegation skill and techniques :
Why delegation skill is important for personal time management, how to choose delegatee, how to delegate. How to train your delegation skill.
Build coping skills to withstanding life's challenges :
Well-developed coping skills help you maintain control and do the best that could be done when faced with outstanding challenges.
Analyze and improve personal time management skills with a time log :
Time log is a very effective time management learning tool. Your minimal effort and a few tips and techniques can eliminate much of wasted time and help you reach balance.
A personal digital assistant ( PDA ) outperforms other time management tools :
Advantages of a portable hand held personal digital assistant, or PDA, compared to paper notes or other personal time management tools.
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Often I suffer for time management. This post will help me for better understand. If two duty comes together then what can I do?
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Priority basis you have to think first. Which duty will be more benefited for you?
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Productive post.
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Thank you.
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Do we know the meaning of procrastination that's been pointed here in time management?
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Yes, I know the meaning of procrastination. It means to take excessively longer time to do a work.. You can avoid procrastination by hurry up action more punctuality, dedication and dutifulness.
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Keep a calendar or planner
Monthly, weekly, daily
Make a study plan and stick to it
Use daylight hours to study more efficiently
Guard your time; don’t let it be stolen from you!
Answering the door or phone is a choice, Not mandatory.
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Create a simple "To Do" list
This simple program will help you identify a few items, the reason for doing them, a time line for getting them done, and then printing this simple list and posting it for reminders.
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Good suggestions but needs constant practice.
Antara
Lecturer
English Dept
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good post...I also maintain some techniques to manage everything,I usually do planning of every work,I set a maximum time for finishing this but I try to finish this as quickly as it is possible with necessary perfections. Trying to be 100% perfectionist in finishing work creates procrastination. So no need to do anything with 100 % perfection,we have to fulfil what is required to the maximum possible perfection. Again, I follow my planning as far as I can. If sometimes,my planning can't work or needs amendment,promptly I change my plan to achieve my target,so I do not feel burden & I do much work rather than others with no planning.