Introduction
Topics
- Goals
- Objectives
- Urgent v Important
- Human nature
- Blame culture
- Productivity
- Time log
- Strategies
- Delegation
- Information
- Filing
- Where are we going?
- Decision making
- Task management
- Time
- Styles
- Planning
- Personal issues
- Tips
Key time destroyers
- General
- Action chasing
- Being disorganised
- Can't say 'No'
- Crisis management
- Desktop management
- Friends
- Large reports
- Low energy levels
- Meetings Part 1
- Meetings Part 2
- Multiple tasks
- Others errors
- Others jobs
- Paperwork
- Perfection
- Poor communication
- Poor control and reporting
- Poor delegation
- Poor information
- Poor leadership
- Poor planning
- Poor preparation
- Poor self discipline
- Putting things off
- Resource issues
- Responsibility / accountability / authority
- Socialising
- Staff issues
- The boss
- The telephone Part 1
- The telephone Part 2
- Travel time
- Unfinished tasks
- Unwanted callers
- Work overload
- Your own errors
Time management - Poor preparation
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Poor preparation
What are you going to do?
Generate a list of what you plan to do for your next days activity. This should be relatively easy starting from your diary.
Order of play
Decide on the ‘urgency’ and importance’ of the tasks and list them in the order that you will tackle them.
This is discussed in detail elsewhere, see ‘urgent v important’.
Tidy desk
Return in the morning to a tidy desk. This will motivate you to get going. The only exception to this should be items left there to act as reminders to do particular tasks.
other areas of interest in the series
- PRINCE2 2009PRINCE2 2009 updates PRINCE2 2005 and covers the principles, the themes -
business case, organisation, quality, plans, risk, change and progress.
The processes – starting up a project, directing a project, initiating a project, controlling a stage,
managing product delivery, managing a stage boundary, closing a project and tailoring PRINCE2 2009 and more... - PRINCE2 2005PRINCE2 2005 covers definition, terminology, the processes - Starting up a Project (SU), Initiating a Project (IP),
Directing a Project (DP), Controlling a Stage (CS), Managing Product Delivery (MP), Managing Stage Boundaries (SB),
Closing a Project (CP) and Planning (PL). The components – Business case, Management of risk,
Quality in a project environment, Configuration management Change control, Organisation, Plans and Controls.
Also, Product-based planning, change control technique and quality review technique and more... - Project managementProject management covers planning, milestones, objectives, scope, control, estimating, assumptions and constraints, problem statements, mission statements, identifying strategy, deliverables, work breakdown structure (wbs), plan types, dependencies, PERT, critical path management (cpm), cost terminology, the project manager, report writing, manual methods, resource levelling, popular project management systems, quality function deployment and more...
- Risk managementRisk management covers proactive and reactive planning, triggers, monitoring and control, risk combination,
what is risk, core process steps, project life cycle, terminology, cumulative probability graph, modifying plans,
plan types, identifying risk issues, assessing risk, cost model, Monte Carlo distribution, probability density function (PDF), uncertain events, correlated events, budget versus contingency, simple networks, Markov chain and more... - Time managementTime management covers goals, objectives, time logs, filing, delegation, planning, key time destroyers,
prioritising, urgent versus important, typical process, strategies, positive thinking,
mind maps, monochronic and polychronic time, culture,
convergent and divergent thinking, assertiveness, stress and more... - LeadershipLeadership covers definition, the vision, influencing, change, confidence, motivation,
strategy, personality indicators, trust and integrity, empowerment, prioritising, proactivity,
SWOT analysis, strategy, insight, personal direction, the three C’s, being positive, self discipline,
leadership training, meetings and agendas, styles and more... - MotivationMotivation covers performance management, empowerment, relations and needs, integrity and trust,
consequences, positive and negative reinforcement, measurement, feedback, goals, rewards,
appraisals, creativity and labelling, communication, coaching and mentoring, teamwork and self motivation,
insight, intuition, foresight, inspiration and influence and more...
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