Improve Your Time Management [electronic resource].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bird, Polly.

Series:

Teach Yourself Business Skills

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : Hodder Education, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Do you want to maximize your time and minimize your clutter and chaos at work? Do you want more time for your personal life? The modern world leaves us all time poor but this book can show you how to take control and wrestle back time for yourself.

Contents:

Cover; Book title; Contents; Meet the author; Only got a minute?; Only got five minutes?; 1 Choose your personal priorities; Where are you going?; Are you Bob or Betty?; Self-assessment; The 80/20 principle; Start taking control; Define your life's key areas; Objectives or major tasks; Prioritizing your goals and objectives; Spider diagrams; Talk priorities through; Summary; Ten things to remember; 2 How much time have you got?; Do you know what you do?; Keeping a time log; Prime time or wasted time?; Saving time; If you really want more time - be ruthless; Habit helps; Ratio of goals to time

Unimportant but good for you?How do you want to spend your time?; Turning dreams into reality; Summary; Ten things to remember; 3 Plan your time; Take time to make time; Advantages and disadvantages of time management tools; What is the diary/planner for?; Planning by priorities; Estimating time; Weekly project page; Daily to-do lists; Allow for emergencies; Summary; Revision test; Ten things to remember; 4 Using transition time; What is transition time?; When are your transition times?; Dealing with transition time; Seizing the moment; What to do in transition time; Uses for transition time

Time-saving technologyExtra work; Pay for time; Summary; Ten things to remember; 5 Conquer procrastination; If you don't start you can't finish; Self-assessment; Start now; What do you really have to do?; Dividing the cake - taking small steps; Set deadlines; Eliminate interruptions; Do it now; Leave time for corrections, review and collation; Good enough is good enough; Get it right first time; Think positively; Don't be late; Summary; Ten things to remember; 6 Learn to say 'no'; The secret of saying 'no'; Saving time by saying 'no'; When to say 'no'; How to say 'no'

How to say 'no' to your bossSay 'no' to your colleagues; Saying 'no' to friends; Turning refusals into acceptances; Ways to say 'no' without tears; Summary; Revision test; Ten things to remember; 7 Reduce paperwork; The myth of the paperless office; What paper do you need?; A tidy workplace is an efficient workplace; Clearance action plan; What do you need on your desk?; Incoming paper; The wastepaper bin secret; Recycling; Stop paper before it gets to you; Filing for fun; 'Bring forward' systems; Reduce your own paper output; Using machines; Summary; Ten things to remember

8 Subdue your phonePhones waste time; Self-assessment; Keep a phone log; Dealing with incoming calls; Taking notes; Unwanted calls; Dealing with outgoing calls; Mobile phones; Phone workstation; Phone call technology; Summary; Ten things to remember; 9 Master your meetings; Meetings - work or waste?; Eliminate unnecessary meetings; Meetings by other means; Managing meetings; Feedback; Conferences and lectures; Review meetings' usefulness; Summary; Ten things to remember; 10 The art of delegating; Don't try to do it all; Why delegate?; What happens if you don't delegate?; Self-assessment

What is delegating?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-282-95737-6

9786612957376

1-4441-2485-4

OCLC:

701704404