Taking Control With Time Management, Fifth Edition
Authors: M. J. Weeks, Janis Fischer Chan
Credit: 1.0 CEUs
Testing Format: multiple choice
Your Price: $139.00
ISBN: 9780761214380
Format: Book
Overview
How to balance the demands of work and personal life.
Apply the tools and techniques in this course to meet contemporary time challenges and balance the demands of work and personal life.
Now packed with exercises and application tools, this up-to-the-minute revision of the classic course gives you proven time management strategies to increase your productivity and your efficiency. You’ll discover how to use effective systems for setting and achieving your goals and reducing on-the-job stress.
Course Objective: Develop a system for managing time by using a self-audit, personal planner, and plan of action; develop skills to use delegation in traditional work settings as well as team-based environments.
Selected Learning Objectives
• Conduct a personal time audit
• Conquer time wasters, including pitfalls of e-mail, cell phones, and the Internet
• Delegate appropriately and effectively
• Set SMART goals and establish priorities
• Uncover the time you need for planning, supervising, and decision making
• Manage information overload and avoid “wired stress”
• Schedule and conduct well-run meetings that focus on effective actions and goals
• Maximize the returns on your telephone, travel, and meeting times
• Use team time more productively
• Set up and implement a Time Management Plan
• Make changes that will reduce stress and add balance to your life
Testing Format
This course contains one multiple choice test valued at one Continuing Education Unit (CEU).
Table of Contents
About This Course
How to Take This Course
Pre-Test
1. Why Take Time to Manage Your Time? 1
Being Busy vs. Being Productive
Your Time Challenges
What’s the Value of Your Time?
What Learning to Manage Your Time Will Do for You
Recap
Review Questions
2. Evaluating Your Use of Time 11
Auditing Your Time
What Is a Time Audit?
Keep a Daily Log
Summarize the Data
Pinpoint Your Time Wasters
Doing the Wrong Things
Misjudging Time
Oversocializing
Lack of Delegation
Recap
Review Questions
3. Goal Setting and Prioritizing 21
Why Set Goals?
Five Steps for Setting and Achieving Goals
Step 1. Using the SMART System to Develop Goals
Step 2. Writing Out Your Goals
Step 3. Checking for Balance
Step 4. Prioritizing Your Goals
Step 5. Identifying the Activities Needed to Achieve a Goal
Achieving Goals with the 3-V System
Recap
Review Questions
4. Organizing Yourself to Meet Your Goals 35
Identify the System That Works for You
Scheduling Your Time
Guidelines for Making a To-Do List
Prioritizing
Scheduling and Planning Systems
Recap
Review Questions
5. Managing External Time Wasters 45
Controlling the Telephone
Incoming Calls
Outgoing Calls
Managing Drop-In Visitors
Managing Information
IOK Method
Managing E-Mail
Meeting Time
Determine the Need
Be Prepared
Begin on Time, Stick to the Agenda, and Record the Proceedings
Consider a Stand-Up Meeting
Cancel Unnecessary Meetings
Don’t Attend Every Meeting
Handle Problem Behavior
Four Time Management Keys for Absolutely Every Meeting
Travel and Commuting Time
Management by Crisis
Preventing Emergencies
The CALM Method
Recap
Review Questions
6. Managing Internal Time Wasters 65
Reducing the Tendency to Attempt Too Much
Organizing Your Workspace
Communicating More Effectively
Improving Your Personal Organization
Breaking the Procrastination Habit
Causes of Procrastination
Doing Something About Procrastination
Planning and Scheduling Your Time
Recap
Review Questions
7. Working in Teams and Delegating Work 81
Working in Teams
Delegation: A Critical Skill
What Delegation Is—and Is Not
Benefits of Delegation
Barriers to Effective Delegation
What Can’t You Delegate?
Steps to Successful Delegation
When You Are the Delegatee
Recap
Review Questions
8. Time Pressures in the “Wired” Workplace 97
Technology Rules
Get to Know the Tools
Common Technological Time Wasters
How to Reduce “Wired” Stress
Recap
Review Questions
9. Coping with Stress and Pressure 105
Warning Signs of Stress
How to Manage Stress
Avoid Multitasking
Learn to Say “No”
Use the 80/20 Rule
Reevaluate Your Priorities When Things Change
Balance Your Work and Personal Life
Recap
Review Questions
10. Developing Your Time Management
Action Plan 115
Analyze Your Use of Time
Develop an Action Plan to Manage Your Time
Go Public with Your Commitment
Follow Up
Recap
Review Questions
Annotated Bibliography
Post-Test
Index