Time Management

About this program.

Firstly welcome and I hope you find our personal investigation on time usage a useful tool to help with your personal efficiencies during your working career. Work is to enjoy – not stress over!

I have specifically written the program in plain language and often in dot point form as a simple way to make you question yourselves and your work habits.

Having had over 25 years in the commercial world, and as so many junior staff, started licking stamps at the bottom of the corporate ladder to having climbed and slid many rungs along the way. I have experienced hundreds of situations where similar people have achieved opposite degrees of accomplishment, and ask myself - how?

We have all heard some of the following statements at some stage of our lives;

• There are not enough hours in the day!
• Where has the time gone?
• Is it that time already?
• I missed the bus because...
• Sorry I’m late, but...

An effective time management program is about knowing how you actually spend your time over a given period – usually a week period.

By better using our finite resource (time) we can make our personal lives much more relaxing as we wont be thinking about all those jobs sitting on our work desk when we go in on Monday morning.

Time Management is all about attitude and a willingness to change.

You have to want to change your current practices in order to relieve some of the stress you are feeling. If you don’t feel uptight and are very happy with your current work habits, then this program is not for you.

Now for those of you staying for the ride on my bus, our first task will be to have a self analysis. We all go and see our doctor for an annual check-up. Treat the next few hours as part of that annual routine. You may even find your blood pressure comes down and you don’t need those anxiety pills by adopting a positive approach to your working life.

We must have motivation to achieve a change of direction and a desire to change or improve our current style. Therefore we must set ourselves some new achievable goals. Personal or work goals should be S.M.A.R.T.

Specific + Measurable + Achievable + Realistic + Within a Timeframe