Improve Your Time Management: Teach Yourself
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26th February 2010
Price: £9.99
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Improve your Time Management is the definitive guide to the basics of time management – the art of organizing your life so that you are in control. You don’t need complicated equipment, dozens of staff or a six-month break to learn how to save time and achieve more. All you need is a willingness to try some of the ideas in this book and the energy to start now.
The book starts by asking you what you want to do with your life and explains how to work out how you really spend your time. It helps you to find out what you do that wastes time and tells you how to eliminate it then shows you how to plan your life better so that you deal with important activities and tasks at the most appropriate times. It tackles time-wasting activities such as paperwork, phone calls and meetings. And just to make sure that you aren’t the only person in your office working at optimum efficiency, it explains how to instill good time management practices in your staff.
By the time you finish the book, you will not only be using your time more effectively but will have more of it. This book will help you turn time into your best friend rather than your worst enemy.
Improve Your Time Management includes:
Chapter 1: Choose your personal priorities
Chapter 2: How much time have you got?
Chapter 3: Plan your time
Chapter 4: Using transition time
Chapter 5: Conquer procrastination
Chapter 6: Learn to say ‘no’
Chapter 7: Reduce paperwork
Chapter 8: Subdue your phone
Chapter 9: Master your meetings
Chapter 10: The art of delegating
Chapter 11: Deal with information overload
Chapter 12: Time management training
Learn effortlessly with a new easy-to-read page design and added features:
Not got much time?
One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.
Author insights
Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author’s many years of experience.
Test yourself
Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.
Extend your knowledge
Extra online articles to give you a richer understanding of time management.
Try this
Innovative exercises illustrate what you’ve learnt and how to use it.
Improve your Time Management is the definitive guide to the basics of time management – the art of organizing your life so that you are in control. You don’t need complicated equipment, dozens of staff or a six-month break to learn how to save time and achieve more. All you need is a willingness to try some of the ideas in this book and the energy to start now.
The book starts by asking you what you want to do with your life and explains how to work out how you really spend your time. It helps you to find out what you do that wastes time and tells you how to eliminate it then shows you how to plan your life better so that you deal with important activities and tasks at the most appropriate times. It tackles time-wasting activities such as paperwork, phone calls and meetings. And just to make sure that you aren’t the only person in your office working at optimum efficiency, it explains how to instill good time management practices in your staff.
By the time you finish the book, you will not only be using your time more effectively but will have more of it. This book will help you turn time into your best friend rather than your worst enemy.
Improve Your Time Management includes:
Chapter 1: Choose your personal priorities
Chapter 2: How much time have you got?
Chapter 3: Plan your time
Chapter 4: Using transition time
Chapter 5: Conquer procrastination
Chapter 6: Learn to say ‘no’
Chapter 7: Reduce paperwork
Chapter 8: Subdue your phone
Chapter 9: Master your meetings
Chapter 10: The art of delegating
Chapter 11: Deal with information overload
Chapter 12: Time management training
Learn effortlessly with a new easy-to-read page design and added features:
Not got much time?
One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started.
Author insights
Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author’s many years of experience.
Test yourself
Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress.
Extend your knowledge
Extra online articles to give you a richer understanding of time management.
Try this
Innovative exercises illustrate what you’ve learnt and how to use it.
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