Manager's Toolkit

Managing Your Time

Making the Most Out of Your Day

Key Topics Covered in This Chapter

•Analyzing how you are spending your time

•Using key goals to identify which tasks should have priority

•Techniques for scheduling priority tasks

•Strategies for combating time-wasters

 

THREE LONG meetings. At least a dozen phone calls—some total time-wasters. Lunch with the boss scrapped at the last minute (“Let’s reschedule for next Tuesday”). Two reports to write. Work on the upcoming presentation to senior management. Simmering conflict between two rival employees to deal with. And it’s already time to start next year’s budgeting process.

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