There are many time management tips available. This list offers 10 tips to avoid, at the same time offering you great insights into 10 ways to succeed.

1. TIMEMANAGEMENT
Ten Mistakes to Avoid
PART ONE

2. HOW WELLDO YOU MANAGE YOUR TIME?

3. Remedies for Time Troubles
Identify time management mistakes
Strategies to overcome
“At the desk” examples
Begin today to take control

4. Overloaded?
In Crisis?
Deadlines?
Too Many Refills?
Frustrated?
Unorganized?
Stressed???

5. Time Management Mistakes
#1 Failing to Keep a To-Do List
#2 Not Setting Personal Goals
#3 Not Prioritizing
#4 Multi-tasking
#5 Not Taking Breaks

6. STRATEGY
INCREASE BRANCH SELLING TIME
BUILD 2012

7. Use To-Do List….
So you don’t forget something.
To prioritize.
To be effective!
Proactively plan.
Tempware To Dos training to follow
#1 Failing to Keep a To-Do List

8. Where you would like to be in 6 months? Next
year? 10 years?
Personal goal setting is essential
Decide what’s worth spending your time on,
And what’s a distraction.
#2 Not Setting Personal Goals

9. When you know where you want to go, you can
manage…
Priorities
Time
Resources
#2 Not Setting Personal Goals

10. Your cell phone rings and your temp has a crisis that she
needs you to deal with right now. But you’re in the middle
of a proposal for a new client. You’re sure you can land the
client if you just put the numbers together. You had a great
idea but it’s fading away because of this “emergency”.
#3 Not Prioritizing

11. How do you prioritize when you’re faced with a
flood of seemingly urgent tasks?
Understand the difference between urgent and
important
Overcome the tendency to focus on urgent.
Prioritize tasks to manage your time better.
#3 Not Prioritizing

12. Urgent Important
Urgent
And
Important
Urgent
And
NOT
Important
NOT Urgent
And
Important
NOT Urgent
And
NOT
Important

13. Important/Urgent Not Important/Urgent
Important/Not Urgent Not Important/Not Urgent

14. Important/Urgent Not Important/Urgent
Fill Temp Order –
Starts Tomorrow
Order paper for
overnight delivery
Important/Not Urgent Not Important/Not Urgent
Complete 20 residual calls Clean up supply cabinet

15. STRATEGY
INCREASE BRANCH SELLING TIME
BUILD 2012

16. Mady regularly writes emails while she chats on
the phone with clients. However, while Mady
thinks this is a good use of her time, the truth is
that it can take 20% - 40% more time to finish a list
of jobs while you are multi-tasking!
#4 Multi-tasking

17. Focus on one task at a time.
Manage projects simultaneously.
Break up your time into 20 minute segments.
Read “The Myth of Multitasking” by Dave
Crenshaw.
#4 Multi-tasking

18. FORGET
ABOUT MULTI-TASKING!

19. You can all work 8-10 hours straight…
without taking a break. But…
Brains work better with time to rest.
You recharge yourself.
Don’t dismiss breaks as “wasting time.”
They are not a waste of time.
They provide valuable down time.
#5 Not Taking Breaks

20. Time Management Mistakes
#1 Failing to Keep a To-Do List
#2 Not Setting Personal Goals
#3 Not Prioritizing
#4 Multi-tasking
#5 Not Taking Breaks

21. HOW WELL
DO YOU MANAGE YOUR TIME?

22. Remedies for Time Troubles
Identify time management mistakes
Begin today to reduce the stress
Implement ONE of these time savers on your
desk this week.
Next meeting, share your successes… or your
challenges!