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Time Management Skills 


Time management skills are crucial for your effectiveness as a manager. By better managing your time you will be able to accomplish everything in your "to do list" and meet your goals without exhausting all your resources. Rushing thorough hectic schedules makes it easier to put things off:
" too busy for an activity-log, too busy for a  training on time management skills etc.". Putting off your time management plan  is putting off your opportunity to become productive.

Start taking control today by intellectually and strategically self-assessing your time management skills, monitoring and evaluating your schedule, your goals and start planing for effectiveness.

Time management becomes challenging not always because of the workload, but because of the approaches taken to implement certain tasks. You may be putting your energy on the wrong tasks. Examine your activities and their relation to your goals. Are thy taking you were you want to be?
Are you using your time to accomplish the things you truly want? 

Start with the following quiz and then move on to the next step. You will be glad you did.

Self-Assessment Time Management Quiz

1. Why do you want to better manage your time? What do you want to achieve? Eg. More time with your family? More time for personal development? List down three reasons and rank them in order of importance.

2. How much time you think you will need to make the changes?

3. What do you want your life to look like once you have incorporated all the changes into your daily schedule? Visualize the perfect day.

4. Is there anything positive about your current schedule? What do you like about it?

5. What do you really hate about your current schedule?

6. What's your biggest excuse for not starting to manage your time better?

7. What's one thing you wish you had changed in your schedule a long time ago? What was the biggest obstacle that held you back? Name one possible way to overcome it?

8. If you had an extra hour each day to spend, how would you choose to spend it?


Once, you have finalized your self- assessment quiz, continue with the time management activities, tools and tips. They will help sharpen and improve your time management skills as well as support a long- term program. This way you will be able to maintain your time management plan and improve it constantly as you move on with your life and your career.

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