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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

E-mail addiction


Being addicted to e-mail, like any addiction, means that your behavior is being controlled by unconscious forces beyond your conscious regulation. If you are checking your e-mail constantly, or every one, five, or ten minutes, or even once an hour, and there is no particular reason for doing so, you may be addicted to e-mail.

Possible causes

Causes for e-mail addiction range from the simple one that you have gotten into a bad habit and need to break out of it to the more complex one that you are constantly seeking external approval and the need to interact with others, and that takes you away from the work at hand, draining your energy, grabbing your time, and ruining your focus.

Potential consequences

E-mail addiction causes you to break your concentration on the priority project you may be working on. Your co-workers, boss, or employees may see you as unfocused and out of control. By focusing on the constant e-mails that are being sent to you, you can miss the "big picture...

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