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Description: Instant Time Management is an easy-to-use action kit bursting with exercises guaranteed to help you to get more out of your day. Full of simple, quick but effective ways to help you to do more, the book is packed with ideas that will help you to:
· manage your time;
· transform the way you use your time while decreasing your stress levels;
· manage other people;
· learn how to deal with interruptions and distractions;
· manage external factors;
· discover how to balance the influences that can help and hinder your day.
Designed to make you take a fresh look at the way you use your time, this book gives you everything from highly structured time management solutions to simple-to-apply ideas. And thanks to the short, bite-sized exercises, this is one approach to time management that won`t take up too much time. The exercises, with star ratings to assess their impact, can be used to build excellence in time management one step at a time, or individually as a quick fix to give you more time - in an instant!
Contents: Time management ¢ Systematic failure ¢ It doesn`t exist ¢ You can`t waste it ¢ But you can manage demand and usage ¢ The influences ¢ Why instant? ¢ Facing reality using this book ¢ Managing yourself ¢ Why do we fight it? ¢ Being comfortable ¢ On the edge of the abyss ¢ Not letting go ¢ Biological needs ¢ Clutching at straws ¢ The rules ¢ Managing outside influences ¢ It`s all their fault ¢ How ˜they` get in the way ¢ Why ˜they` get in the way ¢ Do you really want to stop them? ¢ It`s not just people ¢ Techno toys ¢ Techno aids ¢ Admin inertia ¢ Planes, trains and automobiles ¢ Shiny systems ¢ The basic requirements ¢ The exercises ¢ Talent spotting ¢ If I were a rich man ¢ Dream day ¢ Obstacle map ¢ What`s it worth? ¢ Where`d it go ¢ Hot spots ¢ Focus ¢ The e-mail of the species ¢ The top 10 list ¢ Scrap the briefcase ¢ Why not no? ¢ Chunking ¢ Calling by numbers ¢ Quiet corners ¢ Priorities ¢ Meet yourself half way ¢ Off loading ideas ¢ No, I can ¢ No action, no report ¢ A personal project ¢ Travel times ¢ Telephone tag ¢ Agenda bender ¢ Tasks, tasks ¢ Pareto ¢ Garbage in garbage out ¢ A little chat ¢ Penalizing pen pushing ¢ Letting go ¢ Paper mountains ¢ Cherry picking ¢ How wide is your door? ¢ Failure rate ¢ A file in a cake ¢ Little treats ¢ Scheduling admin ¢ The red hat ¢ We have contact ¢ Floor plan ¢ How long? ¢ Crowd control ¢ Rampant reading ¢ We don`t deliver ¢ The secretary`s secret ¢ Going walk about ¢ ¢ Deflecting distraction ¢ Home, sweet home ¢ Be prepared Nota bene ¢ Delegation difficulties ¢ Reading up ¢ PC plod ¢ Its mine ¢ TV turn off ¢ Principles ¢ Filter tips ¢ Against the buffers ¢ Task list stragglers ¢ Meeting birth control ¢ Fluffy phones ¢ Jump start ¢ Doggie chocs ¢ Waiting room ¢ Train tracks ¢ Whosat? ¢ Drawn and quartered ¢ Mail strain ¢ Go casual ¢ Notes with attitude ¢ Banning homework ¢ Caught in the web ¢ Other sources ¢ More time management ¢ Web sources ¢ Book ¢ Systems ¢ Software ¢ Appendix : the framework ¢ What framework? ¢ Daily, weekly, monthly and annually ” your make over plan ¢ The whole works ¢ Appendix : the selector ¢ Selection tables ¢ The random selector ¢ Techniques in timing order ¢ Techniques in managing yourself order ¢ Techniques in managing others order ¢ Techniques in managing externals order ¢ Techniques in business impact order ¢ Techniques in social impact order ¢ Techniques in fun order
About the author: Brian Clegg is a journalist and creativity consultant. He is a well-known writer, both in traditional media and on the World Wide Web.
Target Audience: General readers, corporates, managers, students and academics of management.
Special prices are applicable to the authorised sales territory only.
Prices are subject to change without prior notice. ISBN 9788175544369
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Pages : 125
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