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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

Poor pacing


Pacing is how you space out your day so that you are working in a way that includes regular rest time for mental and physical rest as well as for eating. Even if it's just taking a break of a few minutes now and then to stand up and stretch, you can cut down on the increase in errors or greater likelihood of an accident that research has shown may happen if you try to work straight through for hours upon hours without a break. Poor pacing also includes failing to get enough sleep at night so you have enough rest so you can perform well.

Possible causes

Poor pacing is caused by those who don't plan for rests or for food and nourishment. There are those who have a more frenzied personality so regular pacing is a new habit that they have to implement. Others start off a project with appropriate pacing but then, as the deadline looms, they falsely assume that working around the clock and having poor pacing will help them to achieve their goal. (Yes, of course it may help to get to...

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