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Successful Time Management: How to be Organized, Productive and Get Things Done 6th Revised edition [Mīkstie vāki]

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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 184 pages, height x width x depth: 211x140x12 mm, weight: 260 g
  • Sērija : Creating Success
  • Izdošanas datums: 03-Jul-2022
  • Izdevniecība: Kogan Page Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1398606197
  • ISBN-13: 9781398606197
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  • Formāts: Paperback / softback, 184 pages, height x width x depth: 211x140x12 mm, weight: 260 g
  • Sērija : Creating Success
  • Izdošanas datums: 03-Jul-2022
  • Izdevniecība: Kogan Page Ltd
  • ISBN-10: 1398606197
  • ISBN-13: 9781398606197

Successful Time Management is packed with proven tips, tools and techniques to help you review and assess your time management and adopt new work practices to improve it.

This book includes great time-saving ideas, practical solutions and checklists, plus advice on: controlling paperwork, organizing your emails, delegating and working with others, prioritizing to focus on key issues, getting and staying organized. This fully updated 6th edition features even more practical exercises, useful templates and top tips to help you minimize time-wasting and interruptions, and focus on the priorities that will lead to success in your job and career. Successful Time Management will give you the tools to become more efficient and effective.

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Learn how to organize your time and productivity effectively so you can get more done, work more efficiently and achieve better results.
Preface ix
1 Time, a key resource: opportunities and difficulties 1(10)
Making it work
2(2)
A personal approach
4(1)
The productivity gain
5(1)
Speculate to accumulate
6(2)
Perfect time
8(3)
2 First steps towards effective time management 11(24)
Your work mix
12(1)
Assessing your current working practice
13(4)
Plan the work and work the plan
17(2)
What kind of system?
19(2)
Setting clear objectives
21(2)
Thinking ahead
23(3)
Spend time to save time
26(1)
Taking time to think
26(1)
Be prepared to say 'no'
27(2)
To be, or not to be (perfect)
29(1)
Work smarter not longer
30(2)
Reward yourself
32(1)
Maintaining good intentions
33(2)
3 Getting (and staying) organized 35(24)
Work the plan
36(2)
A work/home working pattern
38(2)
Batch your tasks
40(2)
Use your diary effectively
42(2)
Schedule appointments with care
44(1)
Clear your desk
45(1)
Avoid 'cherry picking'
46(1)
The Internet
47(1)
Highlight key facts
48(1)
Insist on quality
48(2)
Action or investment
50(1)
Working with a secretary or PA
51(1)
Use a 'document parking' system
51(1)
Make use of checklists
52(2)
Directing the techniques at particular result areas
54(1)
Intermission... take a break
55(4)
4 Combating the time wasters 59(24)
The greatest time waster?
60(4)
Why uncomfortable is good
64(1)
When performance is inadequate
65(1)
Recognizing reality
66(1)
Identifying opportunities
67(2)
Handling personal interruptions
69(3)
Handling telephone interruptions
72(3)
Save time getting through
75(1)
Make messages accurate
76(1)
Email
77(1)
On the move
77(6)
5 Emails: shortcut or time black hole? 83(14)
Email versus snail mail
84(1)
Email: possible disadvantages
85(1)
Basic guidelines
86(2)
Systematic sorting
88(1)
Digital signatures and other security devices
89(2)
Jargon and acronyms
91(1)
Attachments
92(1)
Hyperlinks
92(1)
Potential problems
93(4)
6 First things first 97(14)
Pareto's law
97(3)
Make the miscellaneous a priority
100(1)
Schedule - backwards
100(2)
Be honest about deadlines
102(1)
Review task methodology
103(2)
Eliminate the unnecessary
105(2)
Danger - keep your distance
107(1)
Be confident of your priorities
108(3)
7 Controlling the paperwork 111(18)
Aim to minimize paperwork
112(1)
Make a habit of brevity
113(2)
Minimize your paper handling
115(1)
Do not let files and filing waste time
116(3)
Keep papers neat
119(1)
Computerize it - but carefully
120(1)
Do not duplicate information unnecessarily
121(1)
Do not proliferate information unnecessarily
122(2)
Do not put it in writing
124(1)
Write faster
125(1)
WPB - the most time-saving object in your office
125(4)
8 Working with other people 129(32)
The socializing organization
129(2)
Informal contact
131(1)
Making a working lunch work
132(1)
Consider a day out
133(1)
No conflict - no wasted time
134(2)
The right people
136(1)
The need for clear instructions
137(1)
Don't do it - delegate
138(6)
Swap tasks to save time
144(1)
Develop your people
145(2)
Simply the most time-saving phrase in the language
147(2)
Do not hover
149(1)
Motivate your people
150(1)
Provide specific time management help for staff
150(1)
Make and keep some firm rules
151(3)
Meetings - danger or opportunity?
154(7)
9 Final words 161
Is it worthwhile?
163(1)
A final, final word
164
Patrick Forsyth runs Touchstone Training & Consultancy and specializes in marketing, sales and communications skills. He is based in Essex, UK. He is the author of more than fifty successful business books, translated into 17 languages, including How to Write Reports and Proposals, also published in the Kogan Page Creating Success series. He writes regularly for a number of business journals, and for Writing Magazine.