Time
Management
Good time management is essential if you
are to handle a heavy workload without excessive
stress. By using time management skills
effectively, you can reduce work stress
by being more in control of your time, and
by being more productive. This ensures that
you have time to relax outside work.
The central shift of attitude within time
management is to concentrate on
results, not on activity.
To this end, it embraces a range of skills
that help you to:
- Assess the value of your time, understand
how effectively you are using it, and
improve your time use habits;
- Focus on your priorities so that you
focus on the most important jobs to do,
delegate tasks where possible, and drop
low value jobs;
- Manage and avoid distractions; and
- Create more time.
Time Management helps you to reduce long-term
stress by giving you direction when you
have too much work to do. It puts you in
control of where you are going, and helps
you to increase your productivity. By being
efficient in your use of time, you should
enjoy your current role more, and should
find that you are able to find the time
to relax outside work and enjoy life.
The next few tools we look at are some
of the most immediately important time management
skills.
This site will not, however, go into much
more detail than this on these skills, as
the skills are diverse and warrant a site
in their own right. Download Make
Time for Success!, our time management
and personal effectiveness course to find
out more about this...
The next
article shows you how to value your
time, so you know what jobs you shouldn't
be doing...
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