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Hub You - Time Management Is About Managing Self
Let's examine the question “Do you want to select top candidates or top employees?” The answer would seem obvious but a surprising number of manager’s perform very poorly in this critical task.Peter Drucker, one of America’s leading management gurus has examined this and says, "Executives spend more time on managing people and people decisions than on anything else, and they should. No other decisions are so long-lasting in their consequences or so difficult to unmake and yet, by and large, executives make poor promotion and staffing decisions. By all accounts, their batting average is no better than .333. At most one-third of such decisions turn out right; one-third are minimally effective
Don’t postpone your activities to tomorrow. Tomorrow never comes. Do it right now.
Time Wasters
One must know the time wasters and the way to tackle those activities. Many of us hesitate to take certain actions when it is required because of lack of assertiveness. Let us look in to few time wasters which need to be taken care of to manage our time well.
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If you are an accounting graduate congratulations, you are about to enter into a wonderful world of employment for your degree will give you many options and opportunities. Certain skills come along with having an accounting degree, and the opportunities are limitless on the type of company you can work for.In this article we'll look at many ways that you can find a job in the wonderful world of accounting and a career ladder you can choose to follow.After graduating if your areas of expertise are in public accounting. Some positions that you may be able to acquire are management services staff auditor or a consultant. Typically you will have to report to a senior, and you will learn v
-Charles Bixton
Time management is not much about managing time but managing oneself. The usual compliant we hear from every one is “No time”. Time is fixed for every one; 24 hrs a day, 52 weeks an year. It is up to the individual how effectively and efficiently he or she manages and uses the time. Plan your time well, and then you will have ample time to do your activities.
Characteristics of Time
♣ It is a valuable and scarce resource
♣ It cannot be accumulated like money
♣ Once lost is lost for ever
♣ It cannot be stretched
There are 3 P’s of time management which needs to be taken care of:
1. Planning – must
Planning is deciding in advance what to do, when to do and how to do for any activity. For e.g. Consider that you need to submit a sales report to your superior or to your management team. First you need to plan out the outline / content of the report, decide when to do and plan how to go about of doing it.
2. Prioritizing – vital
The next step is prioritizing the activities. Categorize your activities in to Important and Urgent, Important but not Urgent, Urgent but not Important, Not Urgent and Not Important and act accordingly.
3. Procrastination – avoid
Procrastinating is most common among the individuals. There are certain activities which can wait and certain activities which need to be taken care of today itself.
Most of us will delay Important but Not Urgent activities till it becomes Important and Urgent and end up with lack of time. For Eg. Assume the same example of preparing a Sales Report, given a time of ten days. Now it is an Important but Not Urgent activity. You will postpone it till the deadline and will start working on it a day before the deadline and it becomes an Important and Urgent activity. Then you will not be able to put in quality time to that activity and end up with somehow managing to get the report ready. And at last end up with not meeting your superior’s expectations from you.
Don’t postpone your activities to tomorrow. Tomorrow never comes. Do it right now.
Time Wasters
One must know the time wasters and the way to tackle those activities. Many of us hesitate to take certain actions when it is required because of lack of assertiveness. Let us look in to few time wasters which need to be taken care of to manage our time well.
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The headlines recently have focused on how the replacement of President George W. Bush’s chief of staff may serve to salvage the President’s second term. His new chief of staff has set an agenda, made announcements and started lopping off heads, so to speak, in a very public way. This is not too different from what has happened at corporations during turnarounds. Whether looking at financial institutions, industrial companies, airlines, consumer goods companies or telecommunications giants, the visible dynamics are they same. But are they effective? Why are the characteristics of an effective turnaround process?Identify the problem. Whether it is the White House or Burger King, measures
♣ It is a valuable and scarce resource
♣ It cannot be accumulated like money
♣ Once lost is lost for ever
♣ It cannot be stretched
There are 3 P’s of time management which needs to be taken care of:
1. Planning – must
Planning is deciding in advance what to do, when to do and how to do for any activity. For e.g. Consider that you need to submit a sales report to your superior or to your management team. First you need to plan out the outline / content of the report, decide when to do and plan how to go about of doing it.
2. Prioritizing – vital
The next step is prioritizing the activities. Categorize your activities in to Important and Urgent, Important but not Urgent, Urgent but not Important, Not Urgent and Not Important and act accordingly.
3. Procrastination – avoid
Procrastinating is most common among the individuals. There are certain activities which can wait and certain activities which need to be taken care of today itself.
Most of us will delay Important but Not Urgent activities till it becomes Important and Urgent and end up with lack of time. For Eg. Assume the same example of preparing a Sales Report, given a time of ten days. Now it is an Important but Not Urgent activity. You will postpone it till the deadline and will start working on it a day before the deadline and it becomes an Important and Urgent activity. Then you will not be able to put in quality time to that activity and end up with somehow managing to get the report ready. And at last end up with not meeting your superior’s expectations from you.
Don’t postpone your activities to tomorrow. Tomorrow never comes. Do it right now.
Time Wasters
One must know the time wasters and the way to tackle those activities. Many of us hesitate to take certain actions when it is required because of lack of assertiveness. Let us look in to few time wasters which need to be taken care of to manage our time well.
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As an entrepreneur, you're hardwired to enjoy a greater level of risk than the average person. But do you enjoy the thrill of business and investing so much that you're willing to risk:-Being hounded by creditors?
-Declaring bankruptcy?
-Being denied a mortgage?
-Paying more than your fair share of interest on your loans?
-Losing your house?If you answered "no" to one or more of these questions, this may be the most important report you've read in a long time.Because, if you're like most entrepreneurs, investors, and business owners I've met over the past 28 years, you're in danger of facing all of these horrific problems.And it's all because of your b
2. Prioritizing – vital
The next step is prioritizing the activities. Categorize your activities in to Important and Urgent, Important but not Urgent, Urgent but not Important, Not Urgent and Not Important and act accordingly.
3. Procrastination – avoid
Procrastinating is most common among the individuals. There are certain activities which can wait and certain activities which need to be taken care of today itself.
Most of us will delay Important but Not Urgent activities till it becomes Important and Urgent and end up with lack of time. For Eg. Assume the same example of preparing a Sales Report, given a time of ten days. Now it is an Important but Not Urgent activity. You will postpone it till the deadline and will start working on it a day before the deadline and it becomes an Important and Urgent activity. Then you will not be able to put in quality time to that activity and end up with somehow managing to get the report ready. And at last end up with not meeting your superior’s expectations from you.
Don’t postpone your activities to tomorrow. Tomorrow never comes. Do it right now.
Time Wasters
One must know the time wasters and the way to tackle those activities. Many of us hesitate to take certain actions when it is required because of lack of assertiveness. Let us look in to few time wasters which need to be taken care of to manage our time well.
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When you have gone through your list for the day, it is time to build the list for the next day. I recommend only one day at a time because of the referrals you will get from your calls during the day. If you would rather plan a week in advance, then you should do so and call the referrals as they come in. Remember doing the calls is only a portion of your day and the remainder of the time will be spent doing the work you have created for yourself and other activities. Through all of your activities, networking, and client interactions, you will be building more names for your call list. You can plan on obtaining additional leads everywhere you go. You never know where the conversation will lead whe
Most of us will delay Important but Not Urgent activities till it becomes Important and Urgent and end up with lack of time. For Eg. Assume the same example of preparing a Sales Report, given a time of ten days. Now it is an Important but Not Urgent activity. You will postpone it till the deadline and will start working on it a day before the deadline and it becomes an Important and Urgent activity. Then you will not be able to put in quality time to that activity and end up with somehow managing to get the report ready. And at last end up with not meeting your superior’s expectations from you.
Don’t postpone your activities to tomorrow. Tomorrow never comes. Do it right now.
Time Wasters
One must know the time wasters and the way to tackle those activities. Many of us hesitate to take certain actions when it is required because of lack of assertiveness. Let us look in to few time wasters which need to be taken care of to manage our time well.
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Globalization and technology developed at a rattling rate make our lives more comfortable but we are stranded in a tighter area in our daily lives, on the contrary. Future might be ahead that is worse than Georger Orwell’s “Big Brother”. This time private companies trace us more than the government does, ranging from GSM operators to web search engines, credit card data and survey forms.In the era of marketing, advertising and consumpiton, it does not matter so much to get data collected about us. The heart of the mattter for the companies is what they could do with those data, how they could increase their sales and forecast future.Data mining is a method became very popular in 1990s,
Don’t postpone your activities to tomorrow. Tomorrow never comes. Do it right now.
Time Wasters
One must know the time wasters and the way to tackle those activities. Many of us hesitate to take certain actions when it is required because of lack of assertiveness. Let us look in to few time wasters which need to be taken care of to manage our time well.
♣ Inability to say “No”
One should learn to say “NO”. If your superior or peer is dumping work on you, if you have other activities to concentrate on which is Important and Urgent, you should learn to say “No” in a pleasing manner and in the nice language which does not hurt them. Or else you will be dumped with work and you will be wasting more time on the Not Important, Not Urgent activities and less time will be left to concentrate on your activities which are of utmost importance.
♣ Indecision / delayed decision
According to the intensity of importance of activities, one should know when to take quick decisions and when to delay decisions. One should think about the consequences of delaying decisions on others in the workplace and act accordingly.
♣ Lack of planning / organizing
Proper planning / organizing steps for an activity will help an individual to manage time efficiently.
♣ Interruptions like telephone, drop in visitors
If you have Important and Urgent activity to be concentrated on, ask your secretary not to transfer calls unless the call is of utmost importance. Otherwise, you will be spending unnecessarily a major part of the time in unwanted conversation.
Certain activities like drop in visitors cannot be ignored and needs to be taken care of because networking will be helpful for successful professional life.
♣ Inability to delegate work
Learn to delegate work. If your sub-ordinate can do an activity, delegate the job to him or her and do the activities where your presence is required instead of doing all by yourself. Trust your sub-ordinate and get his or her confidence of completing the job.
Usually there is a perception that “only I can do the work”. They will not be satisfied with others work and identify faults in each and every activity. They end up with doing everything by oneself and also will end up with lack of time.
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