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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 your day: the value of routine


Let's start off with the more macro concern: organizing your day. We can go from there to the more micro concerns of what to do with the clutter on your desk.

System administrator and author of Time Management for System Administrators, Thomas A. Limoncelli, is a big advocate of developing routines and having those routines become habits. That concept is right up there in Time Management Principles, the very first chapter of Limoncelli's book.

So the first step in having better organization in your job is to take control of how you organize your day. If possible, create a routine that works for you. Start with when you will get up each day and when you will get to work each day. Are you allowing yourself enough time in the morning to get ready, including having breakfast? No time to exercise? Maybe taking a walk or going running for just twenty minutes in the morning will be your solution.

Perhaps you have discovered that if you get to work an hour...

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