Managing Your Time Effectively

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Managing Your Time Effectively

• And Achieving More for Your Effort

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Overview

• Why should I care?
• Poor time management
• Common roadblocks
• Where to start
• Extra help
• How this applies to SNCOs

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Why Should I Care??

• Be more efficient

• Have less stress

• Succeed!

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Poor Time Management Symptoms

• A lack of achievement
• Deadlines always missed
• High proportion of time spent socializing
• Indecisiveness
• Constantly interrupting others and being
  interrupted

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Common Roadblocks

• Unclear objectives

• Inactivity

• Inability to say no

• Disorganization

• Too many things at once

• Interruptions

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Where to start

• Define responsibilities
• Clarify objectives/set goals
• Prioritize
• Postpone the unneccesary

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Some extra help

• Concentrate on the task at hand
• Organize
• Overcome procrastination
• Write it down

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How this applies to SNCOs

• Responsibility to Followers
• Responsibility to Commander
• Providing the Example

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Summary

• Managing your time and you will succeed more
• Define responsibilities and set goals
• Organize and plan
• Concentrate on task at hand
• It is your responsibility as an SNCO

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QUESTIONS??