Successful Time Management (Creating Success series, 119) - Softcover

Forsyth, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749448342 ISBN 13: 9780749448349

Publisher: Kogan Page, 2007

Synopsis

<p>In business, the increasing pressure to achieve makes time management a vital skill. It is necessary to be able to work efficiently and effectively to ensure that one's desired results are achieved - both in one's job, and in one's career. Successful Time Management sets out practical guidelines to help readers do just that.</p><p>Packed with proven tips and techniques, it helps anyone to review and assess their own time management and adopt new work practices to improve it.</p><p>Includes great advice on: controlling paperwork; getting and staying organized; delegating and working with others; prioritizing to focus on key issues and prompt the best results. The appendices include a brief assessment of various time management systems such as day, year or meeting planners, action sheets and more</p><p>Whether under pressure or not, this essential guide will help your readers to reduce time wasting and interruptions, and focus on the priority tasks that lead to success - it could just change their life!</p>

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About the Author

<b>Patrick Forsyth</b> runs Touchstone Training &amp; Consultancy based in the UK and specialises in marketing, sales and communications skills. Writing is a significant part of his own work portfolio. He is the author of more than fifty successful business books (with translations into 23 languages). These include: <b><i>How to Motivate People</i>, <i>Successful Time Management</i></b>, <i><b>How to Write Reports and Proposals</b></i>, <i><b>Tough Tactics for Tough Times</b></i>, <i><b>Effective Business Writing</b></i> and <i><b>The PowerPoint Detox</b></i> (all published by Kogan Page). He writes regularly for a number of business journals and for <i>Writing Magazine</i>, and devises and writes training materials.

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<p><b>1. Time: a key resource - opportunities and difficulties </b></p><p> making it work; A personal approach; The</p><p> productivity gain; Speculate to accumulate;</p><p> Perfect time</p><p> <b>2. First steps towards effective time management</b></p><p> Your work mix; Assessing your current</p><p> working practice; Plan the work and work the</p><p> plan; What kind of system?; Setting clear</p><p> objectives; Thinking ahead; Spend time to</p><p> save time; Taking time to think; Be prepared</p><p> to say 'no'; To be, or not to be (perfect);</p><p> Work smarter not longer; reward yourself</p><p> <b>3. Getting (and staying) organised </b></p><p> Work the plan; Batch your tasks; Use your</p><p> diary effectively; Schedule appointments with</p><p> care; Clear your desk; Avoid 'cherry</p><p> picking'; Use abstracts; The Internet;</p><p> Highlight key facts; Insist on quality;</p><p> Action or investment; A good personal assistant</p><p> (or secretary); Use a 'document parking'</p><p> system; Make use of checklists; Directing</p><p> the techniques at particular result areas;</p><p> Intermission... take a break</p><p> <b>4. Combating the time wasters </b></p><p> The greatest time waster?; Handling personal</p><p> interruptions; Handling telephone</p><p> interruptions; Save time getting through;</p><p> Make messages accurate; E-mail; On the</p><p> move</p><p> <b>5. First things first</b></p><p> Pareto's law; Make the miscellaneous a</p><p> priority; Schedule - backwards; Be honest</p><p> about deadlines; Review task methodology;</p><p> Eliminate the unnecessary; Danger - keep your</p><p> distance; Be confident of your priorities</p><p> <b>6. Controlling the paperwork</b></p><p> Aim to minimise paperwork; Make a habit of</p><p> brevity; Minimal memos; Minimise your</p><p> paper handling; Do not let files and filing waste</p><p> time; Keep papers neat; Computerise it - but</p><p> carefully; Do not duplicate information</p><p> unnecessarily; Do not proliferate information</p><p> unnecessarily; Do not put it in writing;</p><p> Write faster; WPB - the most time-saving</p><p> object in your office</p><p> <b>7. Working with other people</b></p><p> The socialising organisation; Informal</p><p> contact; Making a working lunch work;</p><p> Consider a day out; No conflict - no wasted</p><p> time; The right people; The need for clear</p><p> instructions; Don't do it - delegate; Swap</p><p> tasks to save time; Develop your people;</p><p> Simply the most time-saving phrase in the</p><p> language; Do not hover; Motivate your</p><p> people; Provide specific time management help</p><p> for staff; Make and keep some firm rules;</p><p> Meetings - danger or opportunity</p><p> <b>8. Final words </b></p>

Edition details

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0749448342
• ISBN 13: 9780749448349
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 160