Essential Time Management and Organisation: A Pocket Guide

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Transform the way you work and regain control of your working day!

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Effective time-management techniques to revolutionise the way you work!


Do you struggle to get everything done in the time you have available? Are you deluged with interruptions to your work flow? Do you find it difficult to prioritise your tasks and wish you were more organised?
 

Today’s working environment moves at a very fast pace and, at times, it can be difficult to keep up. Expectations are high, and there are so many things competing for our attention. On top of the workload, we’re interrupted by the phone ringing, e-mails landing in the inbox, people dropping in the office and, before we know it, the day has passed and we’ve only achieved half of what we intended to do.
 

If any of this sounds familiar, then this book is for you! Essential Time Management and Organisation will help you transform the way you work and regain control of your working day. This clear and concise guide offers tried and tested techniques for organising your time and achieving your goals.

Be more productive

Drawing on current best practice and personal experience, Sarah Cook shows you how to:

  • accomplish more in the working day
  • reduce your stress levels by being more organised
  • get things done efficiently and effectively
  • enjoy a reputation as a highly-efficient member of the team.
Improve your working practices

With the help of clear diagrams, checklists and models, this pocket guide will enable you to:
  • transform your methods of working
  • prioritise your tasks
  • follow the 4D model for dealing with e-mails
  • take full advantage of your most productive time of day
  • manage interruptions
  • eliminate timewasters
  • delegate effectively – including upwards!

Buy this pocket guide and be amazed at how much you can achieve! 


About the author
 
Sarah Cook has more than 20 years’ practical experience of helping managers improve the way they manage and organise their time. She is currently Managing Director of The Stairway Consultancy Ltd, and writes and speaks regularly on the topics of time management, leadership, management development, team building and coaching.
 
 
Author: Sarah Cook
Publisher: IT Governance Publishing
ISBN: 9781849283021
Pages: 54
Format: Softcover
Published Date: 20 October 2011
Availability: In Stock
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1. Susan on 20.03.2012, said:

With all the productivity tools at our disposal today, including mobile devices to stay connected anytime and anywhere, you’d think we’d actually feel more productive. But those tools can also provide distractions, as well as set expectations for immediate response. Combined with ever-shrinking budgets and the expectation by our executive management to do more with less, being organized and able to use time effectively is now a requirement just to survive, much less to excel. Sarah Cook, the author of Essential Time Management and Organisation: A Pocket Guide, provides several tools and techniques to help the reader organize their time and meet their goals. Included are a couple of very simple self-assessment tools to measure the reader’s time management skill level as well as when during the day are they at their productive peak. The book suggests a focus on the macro view, advising we set SMART objectives on a monthly basis. We should then define and prioritize tasks to meet those goals based on a matrix of Urgency and Importance. She presents the OATS process (Objectives, Activities, Time, Schedule) to break down the macro goals to monthly, then weekly, then daily activities. To be honest, my SMART objectives are usually only visited twice per year – during the annual and mid-year performance cycles. I love the idea of setting and reviewing these on a monthly basis. This truly is a pocket guide, covering and summarizing concepts which most of us are familiar with. It is by necessity short (40 pages) and to the point but covers the major components of time management: • Setting objectives, goals and priorities • Planning time • Avoiding time-wasters • Email management • Delegation She ends with a summary of the 34 points covered in the book, along with a challenge to select just two ideas to implement immediately. In one month’s time, assuming we are determined and disciplined (big assumption!) a new, good habit can replace a bad one, increasing our time management skills, productivity, and value to the organization. I selected these two: 1) Make sure you complete a monthly plan, as well as a weekly and a daily plan, and 2) Recognize your peak energy time, and use this to achieve your most important and urgent, or difficult, tasks.
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