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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

Setting short- and long-term goals, and why it will make you more effective


The sample goals in the preceding section on setting a measurable goal are examples of ___________________ (ask the attendees for their input). Yes, the answer is short-term goals.

Short-term goals are useful to keep us on track but you also need long-term goals to help you to have a vision of yourself, your work, or your career to drive you forward.

At the Academy Awards on March 2, 2014, in his acceptance speech, actor Matthew McConaughey talked about needing three things in his life: God, family, and someone to look up to as a hero.

He shared that when he was 15, he decided his hero would be himself 10 years later. When he was 25, it was going to be him in 10 more years. When he was 35, once again it was going to be him in 10 more years.

He would always keep pushing himself or, as McConaughey so eloquently put it, in one of the few acceptance speeches that was truly memorable and refreshing that evening:

"My hero's...

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