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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

Procrastination


Procrastination means putting off something you should be doing, which is usually something you are resisting or a task you don't want to do, by doing something else that is not on your list of priorities.

Possible causes

There are entire books on procrastination, such as the classic Overcoming Procrastination by psychologists Albert Ellis and William Knaus, as well as the more recent Solving the Procrastination Puzzle by Timothy A. Pychyl. From my own research and observations, in a nutshell, the causes behind procrastination can be divided into these categories:

  • Reluctance to perform the required task

  • Unresolved emotional issues

  • Practical constraints

  • Strategic concerns

  • Positive benefits of procrastination

A reluctance to perform the required task includes everything from just not wanting to do something because it's boring, repetitive of something you've done before, or because you simply would rather be doing pretty much anything else but whatever you're putting off.

Unresolved...

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