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Identify and prioritize goals to ensure critical work gets done
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Make the most of scheduling tools like day-planners
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Mitigate work overloads and eliminate time wasters
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Avoid burnout by delegating effectively
Course Content:
Use Goals as a Guide
You’re Compass to Personal Effectiveness
Goal Setting
Goal Alignment
Sorting Out Your Goals
The Urgent-Versus Important Dilemma
From Goals to Tasks
Unit Goals
Summing Up
How You Spend Your
Time
Where Does It Go?
Create and use an Activity Log
Analyze Your Activity Log"
From Analysis to Change
Summing Up
Scheduling
Your Time
Start with Your Priorities
Scheduling Tools
Building your Schedule
Working with a To- Do List
The Weakness of Scheduling Systems
Summing Up
Time
Robbers
How to Defeat Them
Procrastination
Overreaching
Assuming Subordinates’ Problems
Unnecessary Travel
E-Mail and Paperwork
Time Wasting Meetings
Distractions and Switching Costs
Summing Up
Delegation
Giving Time for Yourself
The Benefits of Delegating
Guidelines for Effective Delegating
Approaches to Delegation
Preparing to Delegate
Making the Assignment
Control, Monitoring, and Feedback
After-Action Review
Summing Up
The
Time Wasting Boss
How to Cope
Confusion about Goals
Failure to Give Clear Directions
Pointless Meetings
The Bottleneck Boss
Your Role
in the Problem
Summing Up
The
Personal Side of Time
Mastering Work-Life Balance
Identify and Prioritize Your
Personal Goals
Make Time for the Things That Matter
Unclutter
Your Personal Life
Build Your Energy
Seek Work-Life Balance
Summing Up
What
Companies Can Do to Help
Ideas for Improving Employer Time Management
Use Technology to Reduce Travel Time
Rein in Presentation Graphics
Facilitate Work-Life Balance
Teach Time Management Principles
Make Time Management a Habit
Summing Up
Appendix A: Useful Implementation Tools
Appendix B: Work Breakdown Structure
Appendix C: A Guide to Effective Meeting
