Personal time management for busy managers

By Gerard M. Blair

Personal time management is about controlling the use of your most valuable (and undervalued) resource. Consider these two questions: what would happen if you spent company money in the same way as you spend company time? When was the last time you reviewed the way you use your time?

Without personal time management there last minute rushes to meet deadlines, meetings which achieve nothing, days which seem somehow to go by unproductively, crises which come unexpectedly from nowhere. This sort of environment leads to stress and poor performance: it must be stopped.

Poor4 time management is often a sign of over-confidence: techniques which used to work with small projects are simply reused with large ones. Working inefficiently was perhaps unimportant in the small role, but it becomes unacceptable in the large one. You cannot drive a motorbike like a bicycle, nor can you manage a supermarket chain like a market stall.

English Language

Pre-Intermediate (2 year)

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