Time
management skills and techniques
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.
The
key to successful time management is planning and then protecting the planned
time. People who say that they have no time do not plan, or fail to protect
planned time. If you plan what to do and when, and then stick to it, then you
will have time. This involves conditioning, or re-conditioning your
environment. For people who have demands placed on them by others, particularly
other departments, managers, customers, etc, time management requires
diplomatically managing the expectations of others. Time management is chiefly
about conditioning your environment, rather than allowing your environment to
condition you. If you tolerate, and accept without question, the interruptions
and demands of others then you effectively encourage these time management
pressures to continue.
Time management has
enormous implications for organizations and the whole economy. See the
astonishing 'wasted time' statistics on the time management quick tips page.
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