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Successful Time Management 3rd Revised edition

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: UK Kogan Page Ltd 2013Description: 196pISBN:
  • 9780749467227
DDC classification:
  • 650.11/FOR
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Successful Time Management is packed with proven tips and techniques to help you review and assess you time management and adopt new work practices to improve it. It includes great time-saving ideas, practical solutions and checklists, plus advice on: controlling paperwork; organizing your e-mail inbox; delegating and working with others; prioritizing to focus on key issues; getting and staying organized.Now in its thrid edition, this essential guide will help you minimize time-wasting and interruptions, and focus on the priority tasks that will lead to success in your job and career.

GBP 9.99

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1. Time: a key resource - opportunities and difficulties making it work; A personal approach; The productivity gain; Speculate to accumulate; Perfect time 2. First steps towards effective time management Your work mix; Assessing your current working practice; Plan the work and work the plan; What kind of system?; Setting clear objectives; Thinking ahead; Spend time to save time; Taking time to think; Be prepared to say 'no'; To be, or not to be (perfect); Work smarter not longer; reward yourself 3. Getting (and staying) organised Work the plan; Batch your tasks; Use your diary effectively; Schedule appointments with care; Clear your desk; Avoid 'cherry picking'; Use abstracts; The Internet; Highlight key facts; Insist on quality; Action or investment; A good personal assistant (or secretary); Use a 'document parking' system; Make use of checklists; Directing the techniques at particular result areas; Intermission... take a break 4. Combating the time wasters The greatest time waster?; Handling personal interruptions; Handling telephone interruptions; Save time getting through; Make messages accurate; E-mail; On the move 5. First things first Pareto's law; Make the miscellaneous a priority; Schedule - backwards; Be honest about deadlines; Review task methodology; Eliminate the unnecessary; Danger - keep your distance; Be confident of your priorities 6. Controlling the paperwork Aim to minimise paperwork; Make a habit of brevity; Minimal memos; Minimise your paper handling; Do not let files and filing waste time; Keep papers neat; Computerise it - but carefully; Do not duplicate information unnecessarily; Do not proliferate information unnecessarily; Do not put it in writing; Write faster; WPB - the most time-saving object in your office 7. Working with other people The socialising organisation; Informal contact; Making a working lunch work; Consider a day out; No conflict - no wasted time; The right people; The need for clear instructions; Don't do it - delegate; Swap tasks to save time; Develop your people; Simply the most time-saving phrase in the language; Do not hover; Motivate your people; Provide specific time management help for staff; Make and keep some firm rules; Meetings - danger or opportunity 8. Final words Excerpted from Successful Time Management by Patrick Forsyth All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.

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