9Managing Your Time Rather Than Letting It Manage You

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Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you should be able to:

• Increase your ability to multitask.

• Identify time robbers and learn to eliminate or control them.

• Develop a system for better time management.

Time is what we want most, but what, alas, we use worst.

William Penn

THE NEED TO MULTITASK

Like many professions today where organizations have reduced staff, increased technology and focused on increased productivity, customer service requires an ability to handle more than one task at a time (multitask). In a call center this might require listening to a customer on a headset ...

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