This document discusses time management and its importance. It provides definitions of time management as developing processes and tools to increase efficiency and productivity. It states that time management is important for students, businesses, and organizations. Some key benefits mentioned are increased productivity, reduced stress, better balance, and goal achievement. Common time wasters are identified as poor planning, procrastination, unnecessary meetings, and negative people. Various time management techniques are also outlined such as setting specific times to work on tasks, dividing large projects into smaller pieces, and backwards planning by setting deadlines first.
3. What is
time management?
•We all have time to either spend or waste and
it is our decision what to do with it. But once
passed, it is gone forever.”
•Time management refers to the development
of processes and tools that increase efficiency
and productivity (for a student (individual),
for a business, for an organization)
4. time = life
time management = self management
“TO WASTE YOUR TIME IS TO WASTE
YOUR LIFE, BUT TO MASTER YOUR
TIME IS TO MASTER YOUR LIFE
AND MAKE THE MOST OF IT”.
Alan Lakein
5. EARLY SIGNS OF TM PROBLEMS….
• Handing in work late
• Submitting work that is not up to your
usual standard
• Forgetting commitments
• Finding that you often don’t have enough
time to complete a task
• Making excuses for why work is not done
• Having to let go of activities you enjoy
because of a lack of time or low grades
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7. WE JUGGLE WITH MANY WORKS EVERY
DAY
• college work
• Jobs
• Volunteer work
• Co-curricular activities
• Community activities
• Family responsibilities
• Social life
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8. Myths about Time Management
Time management is nothing but common sense. I do
well in school, so I must be managing my time
effectively.
Time
No matter
management? I
what I do, I
work better
won’t have
under pressure.
enough time!
It takes all the
fun out of life!!!
10. The Benefits of Time
Management
• You are more productive.
• You reduce your stress.
• You improve your self-
esteem.
• You achieve balance in your
life.
• You feel more confident in
your ability to get things
done.
• You reach your goals.
11. The nine Time Thieves
1. Poor Planning
2. Procrastination
3. Interruptions
4. Not Delegating
5. Unnecessary Meetings
6. Poor Physical Setup
7. Poor Networking
8. Bad Attitude
9. Negative People
12. Procrastination:
Forms of procrastination:
• Ignoring the task, hoping
it will go away
• Underestimating how
long it will take
• Overestimating your
abilities and resources
• Telling yourself that • Believing that repeated
poor performance is “minor” delays won’t
okay hurt you
• Doing something else • Talking about a hard
that isn’t very important job rather than doing it
13. Procrastination:
Enemy of Time Management
• It delays working of an important task,
• it also brings:
– Anxiety
– Reduced sleep
– Illness
– Lower grades
– Poorer quality of work
– Less learning as a result of being rushed
– A personal sense of disappointment
• In the end, it hurts you more than it helps you!
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14. How to Overcome
Procrastination
• Win the mental battle by committing
to being on time.
• Set and keep deadlines.
• Organize, schedule & plan.
• Divide a big job into smaller ones.
• Find a way to make a game of your
work or make it fun.
• Reward yourself when you’re done.
• Tell your friends and room mates to
remind you of priorities and
deadlines.
• Learn to say “no” to time wasters.
19. Time Management Techniques
• The Set Time Method
Block out a specific time to accomplish a
task.
Examples:
Monday 1:00—2:00 Work physics problem
Saturday 9:00—11:30 Go to the gym
The Swiss Cheese Approach
Whenever you find yourself with some free time,
do a small part of a larger task
Examples: brainstorm research ideas while
waiting for your friend to arrive for lunch, review
notes from today’s History lecture.
22. ACTIVITY: WORK LIFE -BALANCE
•If you'd have put the rocks in first, then the pebbles, then the
sand, all three would have fit.
•This is much like time management, in that by completing
your biggest tasks first, you leave room to complete your
medium tasks, then your smaller ones.
•By completing your smallest tasks first you spend so much
time on them you leave yourself unable to complete either
medium or large tasks satisfactorily.
23. TIME INVENTORY CHART
Hours unaccounted for = _____________
Activity mon Tues Wed Thur Fri Sat Sun Total
Sleep
Hours Awake
Work: Office &
Home
Commuting &
Travel
Eating
Dressing &
Personal
Hygiene
Family &
Personal
Work
Education &
Self-Improvement
Community &
Professional
24. Backwards Planning
(COUNT DOWN)
• Step one – determine your deadline date.
• Step two – break the large task into smaller tasks.
• Step three – determine how long each small task will
take and place them on your calendar and to do list.
• Example :
30TH :
29TH :
28TH :
27TH :
26TH :
AND SO ON……
29. AUDIT……
100%
90% DO U SHARP YOUR AXE???
80%
70% HE ANSWERED :
60% NO. OF NO I WAS TOO BUSY WORKING
50% TREES
40%
HARD. WORKING SHIFT
30% DAYS 8.30AM-11.30PM
20%
10%
0%
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30. FACTORS AFFECTING THIS YOUNG
MAN
•PROCRASTINATION
•NO TIME TO SHARP THE AXE
•GUILT
•WORRIES
•NOT ABLE TO SAY “NO”
•NOT ORGANIZED PERSONAL /PROFESSIONAL
•NO GOALS =SO=NO PLANS=SO =NO RESULTS