Time Management

This subject deals with managing your own personal time and that of your team. How can I effectively managing my own time to maximize my management efficiency? What are the "time robbers" and how do I deal with them? Is it normal that project managers should work a lot of overtime? How can I prioritize my tasks more effectively? How can I learn to delegate? These are timely questions for busy project managers! We'll help answer them with tips, tools, and advice.

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  Priorities, Goals and Actions Alignment Worksheet to help you capture critical personal goals, prioritize them, and develop personal action plans aligned with those priorities.
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  Our Personal Time Management Assessment Log provides a time log for helping busy project managers and team members watch where their precious time is going each day, and categorize it to find out whether their time is being used appropriately on valuable project work (or is being eaten up by paperwork, interruptions, or other time-sinks that don't contribute to getting our projects done!) Use it yourself or give it to that always-behind team member--maybe their time really is getting sucked away by non-value-add work.
• BOOKS
  See our book list for some references on time management.
• ARTICLES (offsite link)
  A set of introductory tutorial articles on Time Management is available on-line at http://www.mindtools.com/page5.html. Hint: the "down arrow" next-page button on the first page is down amidst the ads at the bottom of the page - subsequent pages have the navigation buttons at the top.
• ARTICLES (offsite link)
  See the Harold Taylor, Inc. Time Consultants web site for some interesting articles on time management, including "Time Management for Creative People", "Managing Your Paperwork ", "Managing Your E-mail", "If You're Going To Stop Procrastinating, Quit Putting It Off", and more.
• ARTICLES
  Among our archived Columns with a Time Management theme (Member login required):
  • Fence It In!
  • I'll Get Those Priorities To You Tomorrow ... But First ...