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This authoritative, plain-English guide shows you how to set yourself up for success, overcome common time management obstacles, and focus your efforts on your most important tasks and objectives. It explains how to determine the value of your time, provides fantastic tips on streamlining your workspace to speed up the flow, and even helps you minimize or eliminate interruptions from your workday. You’ll discover how to:
- Assess your strengths and weaknesses and establish goals
- Create a routine and make the most of time-saving technology
- Prioritize daily efforts, block off time, plug in to-do items
- Grasp the time-equals-money concept and boost your hourly income
- Create an environment that fosters solid focus and establish boundaries
- Eliminate time-wasting behaviors and promote time-efficient habits
- Reduce stress and anxiety
- Say goodbye late nights at the office and enjoy your leisure time more
At work or at play, don’t let time pass you by. Get Successful Time Management For Dummies and make the most of every precious minute!
From the Back Cover
Practical strategies and advice for putting time on your side—and keeping it there!
Feel like you never have enough hours in the day? No matter what career and job role you're in, this plain-English guide delivers solutions for working better and faster, getting rid of time-wasting distractions, and ultimately, reducing stress. You'll see how to eliminate late nights at the office and spend more time with family, friends — or even yourself!
Set yourself up for success — assess your strengths and weaknesses, establish goals, and create a routine
Overcome time-management obstacles — communicate more effectively, circumvent interruptions, and eliminate procrastination
Focus your efforts — identify your most important tasks, prioritize your daily efforts, block off time, and plug in to-do items
Put a value on your time — grasp the time-equals-money concept, figure your hourly income, and boost your hourly value
Streamline your workspace — assemble essential tools, keep a clutter-free desktop, and create an environment that fosters solid focus
Find a work/life balance — maximize the use of your personal time and enjoy a rich, rewarding life away from the office
Open the book and find:
Specific insight addressing challenges for admin staff, salespeople, owners and executives, and managers
Tools to help organize your physical and electronic workspace for optimal productivity
Suggestions for using traveling time well
Strategies for communicating directly, effectively, and tactfully
Tips and tricks for handling interruptions and ending procrastination
Guidance for working efficiently with supervisors, colleagues, and business associates
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The book is more tailored foe sales and business oriented people. There are 6-parts to the book. The first covers the myths and beliefs in managing time and you conduct a self survey of your strengths and weaknesses. You do the classic goal setting exercise and scheduling your day. This is all like I've seen in many books on time management. Part 2 used the 80/20 rule in accomplishing the important tasks first that makes the most impact and not just routine unimportant activities to stay busy. This part also goes over setting up a work area and some techniques of managing the paper blizzard. Not much detail on what to look for. The book got off track in Chapter 6 on Technology. He talked about the obvious use of email clients, PDA but mostly about CRM. Customer Relations Management software. Considering all the technology out there to save time, he should have covered more topics. I'm just an individual. He then covers traveling light and efficient which was useful. Part 3 covers challenges for you to stay on track. He did this by setting appointments and being hard to get hold of. He wants to schedule all calls for a certain time of day. Emergencies knows no schedule. This is why it's so hard to call companies when everybody is doing the same thing and nothing is syncing up. I did like the guide on writing effective emails and making decisions. Part 4 - He follows by applying time management to the work place including your boss. As a boss, he even covers points that if a person isn't being time efficient to "his" standards then he would fire them. I know with downsizing some people are doing the work of 5-6 employees and that some employers don't realize that employees can't do everything well. They don't realize this until they've gone through 3 or 4 people and they all perform the same. Part 5 is more specialize with each chapter covering Salesperson, Owners, Admin, Executives, and coaches. Finally, Part 6 had parts of ten covering behavior, habits, technologies that should have been in the earlier chapter but still lacking and personal life that I found odd. Personal life covered only hiring maids, gardeners, detailers etc so you can have more free time to do stuff. That's advice for a rich person and not somebody living in a one bedroom apartment. Summary - The book has many ideas that a person can use but is more geared for the business world and not every day people just trying to add more organization to their lives. I read the front, back cover of the book but there was no hint that this is a business book. Only 100 pages are of any use and most of those are common knowledge. Plus the referenced websites wants your email in exchange for test results.
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