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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

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Here are some of the top ideas in this chapter:

  • There are many time wasters you can have that can slow down your goal of being more effective. The key is to recognize the time wasters in your life and to deal with each one, determining what the cause might be, understanding the consequence of that time waster, and finding ways to overcome it that will work for you.

  • For most people, procrastination is one of the biggest time wasters. Putting off something you have to do because you don't want to do it usually makes you feel bad and of course it slows down finishing any project. Understanding the causes of procrastination is crucial as well as implementing one or more ways to overcome it such as using the reward method or making what you have to do that you are procrastinating about the first thing you do in the morning.

  • Poor planning and poor pacing are both time wasters that can lead to increased mistakes at work, inconsistent or inadequate rest periods, and unrealistic or too distant...

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