Book description
In today?s competitive global environment?where people at all levels need to accomplish more, in less time, with fewer resources?the ability to manage priorities is key to personal and professional success. How to Manage Your Priorities, Second Edition, provides managers, team leaders, professionals, and others in the workplace with the tools to master this essential business skill. The second edition, revised and updated with a new chapter on technology-based tools for identifying and organizing priorities, teaches managers the critical benefits of managing their priorities and removing the obstacles that interfere with success.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About This Course
- How to Take This Course
- Pre-Test
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1 Why Learn to Manage Your Priorities?
- What It Means to Manage Your Priorities
- The Benefits of Managing Your Priorities
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What Gets in the Way?
- Failure to Identify Clearly What Is Important
- Vague Goals and Expected Outcomes
- Lack of Planning
- Poor Communication
- Conflicting and/or Unexpected Needs and Demands
- Failure to Recognize and Respond to Change
- Lack of Resources
- Striving for Perfection, Not for Results
- Failure to Think Creatively
- Organizational Problems
- What You Will Learn in This Course
- Recap
- Review Questions
- 2 How to Know What Is Important
- 3 Strategies for Managing Your Priorities
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4 Planning and Scheduling
- What Action Planning and Scheduling Can Accomplish
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Components of an Action Plan
- What Is the Expected Outcome and What Is the Deadline?
- What Activities Are Necessary to Achieve the Outcome?
- What Resources Are Needed and Where Will They Come From?
- Who Else Needs to Be Involved and What Is the Nature of Their Involvement?
- What Factors Might Influence or Constrain the Way the Outcome Is Achieved?
- What Is the Sequence of Key Activities and What Are the Progress Checkpoints?
- Who Will Do What?
- What Problems Might Come Up and What Will Be Done to Handle Them?
- When Don’t You Need an Action Plan?
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Scheduling
- Realistically Estimate the Time Needed to Complete Each Task and Activity
- Identify Activities that Can Be Clustered
- Decide When You Do Your Best Thinking
- Leave “Lag” Time in Your Schedule
- Include Time for Thinking and Reflecting
- Allocate Sufficient Time for “Important, Not Urgent” Activities as well as “Urgent and Important” Activities
- Build in Personal Time
- Review and Revise Your Schedules Regularly
- How to Build a Schedule
- Recap
- Review Questions
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5 Working Efficiently
- What It Means to Work Efficiently
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Obstacles to Working Efficiently
- Doing Things You Enjoy Instead of Those that Move You Towards Your Goals
- Using E-Mail Unproductively
- Unnecessary Interruptions
- Disorganization
- Managing by Crisis
- Inefficient Delegation
- Saying “Yes” to Everything
- Unnecessary or Poorly Planned Meetings
- Procrastination
- Doing Things That Do Not Need to Be Done
- Tracking Your Time Wasters
- Strategies for Working More Efficiently
- Delegating Successfully
- Using E-Mail Productively
- Recap
- Review Questions
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6 Using Technology to Manage Your Priorities
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Tools to Help You Manage Your Priorities
- Computer Applications for Organizing and Scheduling
- Computer Applications for Managing Your Goals and Projects
- Tools for Working Remotely
- Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
- Teleconferencing System
- Instant Messaging (IM)
- Text Messaging
- Palm Pilot
- BlackBerry
- Pocket PC
- Personal Information Manager (PIM)
- Short Message Service (SMS)
- Common Problems When Using Technology-Based Tools
- How to Learn More About Technology-Based Tools
- Recap
- Review Questions
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Tools to Help You Manage Your Priorities
- Bibliography
- Post-Test
- Index
Product information
- Title: How to Manage Your Priorities
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2007
- Publisher(s): AMA Self-Study
- ISBN: 9780761214649
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