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Delivering Time Management for IT Professionals: A Trainer's Manual

You're reading from   Delivering Time Management for IT Professionals: A Trainer's Manual Tools, methods, and strategies for delivering effective time management training

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783000920
Length 260 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Delivering Time Management for IT Professionals: A Trainer's Manual
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
Preface
Introduction
1. Why Time Management Is More Important Than Ever FREE CHAPTER 2. How Efficient Are You? Self-Awareness of Your Body Clock and Work Style 3. Setting Goals and Prioritizing 4. Getting Organized 5. Identifying and Overcoming the Top 15 Time Wasters 6. Dealing with Distractions, Interruptions, and Handling Change 7. Enhancing Your Verbal and Written Communication Skills for Efficiency 8. Setting and Meeting Deadlines 9. Improving Your Work and Personal Relationships 10. Cultivating a Work-Life Balance 11. Closing the Training Appendix

The top six ways to develop work-life balance


Here are some ways that you can achieve the work-life balance that you seek.

  • Make it a goal.

    Just like setting a goal of accomplishing a certain project by a specific date, make achieving work-life balance a goal that you are going to strive for.

  • Take a work and personal time inventory.

    Start by looking at your entire work week and weekend. If you have been keeping time logs, look over all your logs. If you are using time-keeping software, such as Time Doctor ( www.timedoctor.com), look over your logs and see what it says about your work and personal time. When do you get to work? When do you leave? How much of the weekend do you spend enjoying yourself, doing chores, or doing more work?

  • Create a reasonable and realistic schedule that you can stick to.

    What is realistic for you and your job? An eight, nine, or ten hour workday? Is it the four hour workweek that Tim Ferris recommends in his mega-bestseller of the same name? If you are working twelve...

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