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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

The reality or myth of work-life balance


In the 70s, the term that was used to typify those who failed to achieve work-life balance was burn out. As reflected in the huge outcry and debate caused by academic-turned-high-level-government-official-turned-back-to-academic, Anne-Marie Slaughter's lengthy magazine piece in The Atlantic, "Why Women Still Can't Have It All," published in July 2012, having it all—which is really what we're calling work-life balance in this part of the workshop—is especially challenging for women. But as men increasingly take on the dual role of worker and engaged and involved parent, not just economic provider, more men are also wondering how to achieve work-life balance, without sacrificing their career.

Slaughter conveys in her article her belief that you can work and have it all but you need to have the kind of job that allows you to set your own hours. She compares how she managed, even though it was challenging, being married and raising two sons when she was...

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