Gain More Time:
Understanding Time Management Principles

• Does your staff incorporate time management principles into their daily plan?
• Do employees prioritize tasks so that they accomplish their work efficiently?

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Time Management Techniques: First Things First!

In First Things First, Steven Covey devotes a chapter to “The Urgency Addiction” and addresses time management via two variables: importance and urgency.

Of the four possibilities, we are most efficient if we focus our time on important tasks that are not urgent. Too often, we respond to urgent tasks first, whether or not they are important.

Time Management in the Workplace

Consider these distractions:

1. If your team has pop-up email enabled to receive an auto preview of every incoming message:
• How often do they stop working on an important task to read a routine e-mail message?
• Worse, do they set aside the important task to respond to these urgent e-mails?
2. Blackberrys and IPods are the ultimate in pop-up e-mails:
• How often do you find colleagues focused on these devices during meetings?
• How often do the miss important information because their focus is on the device causing others to repeat themselves?

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Time Management Tips to Get Started

Most people would readily agree that completing important tasks take priority over responding to routine e-mail.

Without realizing it, sometimes a technological advantage not used properly can increase interruptions and reduce productivity.

• Carve out time each day to concentrate on the important, not urgent tasks.

• During the smaller segments of time after you have completed the important tasks, take this time to respond to routine requests.

“The Main Thing is Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing”

--Steven Covey