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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

Organizing principles to apply to your things


These principles will help your attendees be more organized in where they put and retrieve the items they need in order to perform their work.

Here are some effective ways to organize yourself and your materials:

  • Organize by a principle: by date (chronologically), by category, by file color, or alphabetically.

  • Rearrange your materials so that files or books related to current, active projects are close at hand, as well as supplies you use every day.

  • Group similar tasks together. (See the Repetitive Tasks Organizer box.)

  • Eliminate clutter: Discard, give away, pass along, recycle, or sell unnecessary items.

  • Make a commitment to getting and staying organized as part of your job, not something you will do when you get around to it.

  • Have a master appointment book or calendar where you record all your upcoming meetings. You can keep a paper appointment book, use your smartphone, or any of the free or fee-based scheduling apps, software, or websites that are...

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