Time Management Tips: The ABCs

These consist of 26 tips thus can be viewed as the management ABCs. You can choose among these 26 time management tips- ABCs – to help you to fulfil your roles and achieve your goals;

A – Define roles, set goals and determine action items

B- Plan each day

C- Act immediately and constructively

D – Bring solutions – Accompany each problem with at least one solution

E – Identify and use your best time

F – Organise your space – Create efficient work environment

G – Chain yourself until the task is done

H – Distinguish between efficiency and effectiveness

I – Create professional titles

J – Keep related materials together

K – Meet only when necessary

L – Apply the 20/80 rule

M – Break projects into parts

N – Use discretionary time wisely

O – Avoid telephone and email tag

P – Delegate

Q – Keep door closed but access open

R – Write it down – Document-document-document

S – Network

T – Minimize ‘toxic’situation

U – Use travel and waiting time productively

V – Meet with yourself

W – Log your time

X – Adopt a holistic philosophy

Y – Guarantee small success

Z – ‘Goof off’

 

Taken from ‘Engineering Your Future’ by Stuart G. Walesh