Time Management Tips

Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

Time Management in the Workplace

Learning Time Management Skills is partly about time management techniques, and partly about your discipline to stick to it.  For effective time management, it is best to know how to leverage both.

The 12 Time Management Tips: 

1. Schedule time in your planner to plan.
2. Schedule time in your planner to purge. *
3. Schedule time in your planner for personal productivity.   (see Morning Kickstart below)
4. If you have an assistant: jot down all the attributes of a terrific assistant, then use that as a conversation piece for using her more effectively.
5. Know the difference between important and urgent. Be willing to get interrupted for urgent and important but not for urgent and unimportant.
6. Use time management tools because they work for you, not because they look like cool gadgets.
7. Know what works for you. 
8. Define 3 zones in your workplace.  (see The 3 Workplace Zones below)
9. Use a method for keeping others out of your office (red flag or "in conference")
10. Remember that the key to your personal time management is discipline and how you schedule.
11. Know how to protect your plan by saying "no" when appropriate.
12. Acccept that your plan will be upheaved occasionally.

The Expert's Trick: Morning Kickstart

The importance of time management shows most in your personal stress level. When you can get just a few critical items accomplished, you can focus more clearly the rest of the day. For that reason, dedicate a small chunk of time to getting something of importance out of the way early or balancing your work-life.

The 3 Workplace Zones  - Organizing the workspace

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