Thump off your work Overload. Increase Your Effectiveness. Achieve Much More.
This is a survey study to the professionals for retaining their prospective of the professional style in all concern. It has been taken from Mind Tools and composed for a readable version to get you personal time management skills. These are the simple, practical techniques that have helped the leading people in business; sport and public service reach the pinnacles of their careers.
Work Smarter
Take Control of Your Workload
Time Management Tools
1. Beating Procrastination
Manage Your Time. Get It All Done.
Why do we procrastinate?
In a nutshell, you procrastinate when you put off things that you should be focusing on right now.
How to Overcome Procrastination:
Whatever the reason behind procrastination, it must be recognized, dealt with and controlled before you miss opportunities or your career is derailed.
Step 1: Recognize that you're Procrastinating
If you're honest with yourself, you probably know when you're procrastinating.
Step 2: Work out WHY you’re Procrastinating
Why you procrastinate can depend on both you and the task. But it's important to understand what the reasons for procrastination are for each situation, so that you can select the best approach for overcoming your reluctance to get going.
Key points:
To have a good chance of conquering procrastination, you need to spot straight away that you're doing it. Then, you need to identify why you're procrastinating and taken appropriate steps to overcome the block.
Activity Logs
Find Out How You Really Spend Your Time
Key points:
Activity logs are useful tools for auditing the way that you use your time. They can also help you to track changes in your energy, alertness and effectiveness throughout the day.
Action Plans
Small Scale Planning
How to Use the Tool:
Wherever you want to achieve something significant then you have to draw up an Action Plan. This helps you think about what you need to do to achieve that thing, so that you can get help where you need it and monitor your progress.
Tips:
A useful mnemonic that you can use to help you check that you've remembered all the types of task that might be needed to meet your goal is SCHEMES. This stands for:
* Space
* Cash
* Helpers/people
* Equipment
* Materials
* Expertise
* Systems
You may not need all of them to meet some goals: a small internal project to streamline the format of your team's reports, for example, only requires "people", "expertise" and "systems".
Tip:
Action Plans are great for small projects, where deadlines are not particularly important or strenuous, and where you don't need to co-ordinate other people.
Key points:
An Action Plan is a list of things that you need to do to achieve a goal. To use it, simply carry out each task in the list
Using Your To-Do Lists
Different people use To-Do Lists in different ways in different situations: if you are in a sales-type role, a good way of motivating yourself is to keep your list relatively short and aim to complete it every day.
Key points:
Prioritized To-Do Lists are fundamentally important to efficient work. If you use To-Do Lists, you will ensure that:
* You remember to carry out all necessary tasks
* You tackle the most important jobs first, and do not waste time on trivial tasks.
* You do not get stressed by a large number of unimportant jobs.
This is a survey study to the professionals for retaining their prospective of the professional style in all concern. It has been taken from Mind Tools and composed for a readable version to get you personal time management skills. These are the simple, practical techniques that have helped the leading people in business; sport and public service reach the pinnacles of their careers.
Work Smarter
Take Control of Your Workload
Time Management Tools
1. Beating Procrastination
Manage Your Time. Get It All Done.
Why do we procrastinate?
In a nutshell, you procrastinate when you put off things that you should be focusing on right now.
How to Overcome Procrastination:
Whatever the reason behind procrastination, it must be recognized, dealt with and controlled before you miss opportunities or your career is derailed.
Step 1: Recognize that you're Procrastinating
If you're honest with yourself, you probably know when you're procrastinating.
Step 2: Work out WHY you’re Procrastinating
Why you procrastinate can depend on both you and the task. But it's important to understand what the reasons for procrastination are for each situation, so that you can select the best approach for overcoming your reluctance to get going.
Key points:
To have a good chance of conquering procrastination, you need to spot straight away that you're doing it. Then, you need to identify why you're procrastinating and taken appropriate steps to overcome the block.
Activity Logs
Find Out How You Really Spend Your Time
Key points:
Activity logs are useful tools for auditing the way that you use your time. They can also help you to track changes in your energy, alertness and effectiveness throughout the day.
Action Plans
Small Scale Planning
How to Use the Tool:
Wherever you want to achieve something significant then you have to draw up an Action Plan. This helps you think about what you need to do to achieve that thing, so that you can get help where you need it and monitor your progress.
Tips:
A useful mnemonic that you can use to help you check that you've remembered all the types of task that might be needed to meet your goal is SCHEMES. This stands for:
* Space
* Cash
* Helpers/people
* Equipment
* Materials
* Expertise
* Systems
You may not need all of them to meet some goals: a small internal project to streamline the format of your team's reports, for example, only requires "people", "expertise" and "systems".
Tip:
Action Plans are great for small projects, where deadlines are not particularly important or strenuous, and where you don't need to co-ordinate other people.
Key points:
An Action Plan is a list of things that you need to do to achieve a goal. To use it, simply carry out each task in the list
Using Your To-Do Lists
Different people use To-Do Lists in different ways in different situations: if you are in a sales-type role, a good way of motivating yourself is to keep your list relatively short and aim to complete it every day.
Key points:
Prioritized To-Do Lists are fundamentally important to efficient work. If you use To-Do Lists, you will ensure that:
* You remember to carry out all necessary tasks
* You tackle the most important jobs first, and do not waste time on trivial tasks.
* You do not get stressed by a large number of unimportant jobs.
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