Time Management

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Time Management
Career Financial Management CHAPTER 7

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Key Points

• What is Time Management?
• American Time Use
• Identify Time Wasters
• Daily Schedules
• Time Management Tips

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What is Time Management?

• Time is uncontrollable
• We can manage ourselves and
• the use of our time
• http//www.worldometers.info/

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Time Statistics

• American Time Use Survey
• June 25, 2008 In 2007, 20 percent of employed
  persons age 15 and over did some or all of their
  work at home on days that they worked and 87
  percent did some or all of their work at their
  workplace. On an average day, nearly all persons
  (96 percent) engaged in some sort of leisure
  activity. More...
• http//www.bls.gov/tus/

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Time Wasters _at_ Work

• E-mail customers vs. Phone Call
• More efficient to call in order to work out an
  issue?
• Why e-mail?
• Don't pay someone 25 an hour to do 7 an hour
  work

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WASTEING TIME

• AOL Instant Messenger
• Myspace, Facebook
• Texting
• Personal Visitors
• Tasks you should have delegated
• Lack of Planning
• PROCRASTINATION
• Inability to say No

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Time Management

• Schedule and Manage time
• Prioritize
• Survey

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Daily Schedules

• A, B, C METHOD
• Learn to Prioritize
• Identify time of day you are most productive

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Time Management Tips

• Make time for yourself
• Relieve Stress
• Use time efficiently effectively
• Eliminate Distractions
• Reward Yourself

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What Have you Learned?

• The more time spent planning activities will
  provide for more time available in the long run!

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Reflection

• 1. How do you make time for yourself?
• 2. What do you do to relieve stress?
• 3. What time of day are you most productive?
• 4. What are some things you can do from this
  point forward to give yourself more free time?