How to Manage Your Time Effectively

Höfundur: Patrick Forsyth (Útgáfa: 7)
How to Manage Your Time Effectively

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How to Manage Your Time Effectively is packed with proven tips, tools and techniques to help you review and assess your time management and adopt new work practices to improve it. This book includes great time-saving ideas, practical solutions and checklists, plus advice on: controlling paperwork, organizing your emails, delegating and working with others, prioritizing to focus on key issues, getting and staying organized.

This fully updated 7th edition features even more practical exercises, useful templates and top tips to help you minimize time-wasting and interruptions, and focus on the priorities that will lead to success in your job and career. How to Manage Your Time Effectively will give you the tools to become more efficient and effective. The Creating Success series of books. . . Unlock vital skills, power up your performance and get ahead with the bestselling Creating Success series.

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Útgefandi
Kogan Page
ISBN
9781398619906
Print ISBN
9781398619692
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
7
Höfundar
Patrick Forsyth
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2026-01-03
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
10
Afritunar takmörkun
10

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  • Cover: How to Manage Your Time Effectively
  • How to Manage Your Time Effectively
  • Creating Success Series
  • Title Page
  • Contents
  • List of figures
  • Preface
  • 01 Time, a key resource: opportunities and difficulties
  • Making it work
  • A personal approach
  • The productivity gain
  • Speculate to accumulate
  • Perfect time
  • 02 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
  • Maintaining good intentions
  • 03 Getting (and staying) organized
  • Work the plan
  • A work/home working pattern
  • Batch your tasks
  • Use your diary effectively
  • Schedule appointments with care
  • Clear your desk
  • Avoid ‘cherry picking’
  • The internet
  • Highlight key facts
  • Insist on quality
  • Action or investment
  • Working with a secretary or PA
  • Use a ‘document parking’ system
  • Make use of checklists
  • Directing the techniques at particular result areas
  • Intermission… take a break
  • 04 Combating the time wasters
  • The greatest time waster?
  • Why uncomfortable is good
  • When performance is inadequate
  • Recognizing reality
  • Identifying opportunities
  • Handling personal interruptions
  • Handling telephone interruptions
  • Save time getting through
  • Make messages accurate
  • Email
  • On the move
  • 05 Emails: shortcut or time black hole?
  • Email versus snail mail
  • Email: possible disadvantages
  • Basic guidelines
  • Systematic sorting
  • Digital signatures and other security devices
  • Jargon and acronyms
  • Attachments
  • Hyperlinks
  • Potential problems
  • 06 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
  • 07 Controlling the paperwork
  • Aim to minimize paperwork
  • Make a habit of brevity
  • Minimize your paper handling
  • Do not let files and filing waste time
  • Keep papers neat
  • Computerize 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
  • 08 Working with other people
  • The socializing organization
  • 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?
  • People external to the organization
  • Appendix: The impact of office politics
  • 09 Final words
  • Is it worthwhile?
  • A final, final word
  • Copyright Page