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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

Prioritizing goals for greater clarity and productivity


Now that you have a minimum of three short and long-term goals, you need to figure out what you will do first. Of course some may try to juggle several goals at once. But if you observe those who seem to be working on several projects at once, you may find that they are actually practicing selective attention—when they're working on one project—they have the other project or projects "on hold." Once they've done enough on that first project, or even finished it, they switch back to the other project.

Prioritizing helps you to decide where to put your attention in a more formal way.

Take your short-term goal list of three. Look over those three items. Which one is the absolutely most important one to do? And why is that your priority? It could be because your boss asked you to do that project first. It could be because it will pay more and you need the money. It could be because there's a very clear time element to it—a fixed in stone...

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