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- Time Management Tip: You Have To Track The Hand-offs - by Submitted on Oct 02, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenWhen you delegate or you have to wait for someone else to do something before you can take your next action this time management tip will keep you from having things fall through the cracks. If you’ve found some things you can delegate good for you, but ultimately you’re still ...
Views: 689 - Time Management Skill: Improving Through Actions - by Submitted on Oct 01, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenYour time management skills are directly proportional to your ability to take the right actions at the right time for the right reasons. Are your in boxes overflowing: physical “in” stack tray, email, and voice mail? Perhaps all these things are building up because you just ...
Views: 682 - Frenzied Time Management - by Submitted on Sep 29, 2007 from Harlan Goerger6 Absolutes for Top Performance. Does your day start with something along this order? You pick up the phone, “Can we get together next Tuesday?” “Oh man we are so swamped, I don’t know how I can get freed up!” goes the voice on the other end. Most of us in management and sales end up ...
Views: 1335 - Time Management Strategy: You Can't Undo Yesterday, But You Can Prevent Tomorrow - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenTechnology, time management strategy friend or foe. When you read the word technology you probably think of technological devices, tools, and software. But did you know the word also refers to methods used to solve problems? When technology works in terms of the technological devices we all ...
Views: 724 - Time Management Technique: Chunk, Block & Tackle - by Submitted on Sep 27, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenIf you have projects and clutter that are so overwhelming you just can’t bring yourself to even start them, this time management technique is for you. Does your office or garage look like the city dump with heaping piles of both good and useless stuff everywhere? This is an example of ...
Views: 5202 - Time Management Skill: How To Let Go Of The Excess & Reduce Your Stress - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenClutter is an enemy of time management. Some people more than others have a need to save everything, but doing so increases your stress and reduces your efficiency. A long time ago a friend of mine made the statement that possessions always cost you more in time and money than the purchase ...
Views: 920 - Rise And Fall Of The Timesheet - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2007 from tom applegateAbstract: In the United States alone, businesses loose an estimated eight billion US dollars annually with the time used for their employees just completing timesheets (http://www.metriq.biz/Company/CostCalc.php). This article gives a brief overview of timesheets and their disadvantages, ...
Views: 746 - Time Management Tip: Rinse, Repeat, Result - by Submitted on Sep 25, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenProcedures and systems are the core of this time management tip. Now, don’t get scared and think procedures and systems are complicated and something you can’t use. Even though you don’t use those terms you already have some procedures and systems that you follow every day of ...
Views: 770 - It's About Time - by Submitted on Sep 25, 2007 from alex blackwellOne of the most important books in the personal development and self improvement space is Stephen Covey's classic The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. The principles outlined in the book are indeed timeless truths. In the book, Covey said there are three basic steps you must take to get what ...
Views: 863 - Time Management Tip: What Type of Learner are You? - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenYou may be wondering how there can be a correlation between how you like to learn and a time management tip, but there is. The way you learn is also the way you like to process information. When you can get information in the format you like to learn in, you can save yourself time and make ...
Views: 4695 - Personal Time Management: Organized Brain Storming may Sound like an Oxymoron - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenWhen you think about brain storming you probably associate it with something you’ve done with a group of people at work. At the time you may even have thought it was kind of stupid and a waste of time as people called out ideas that seemed kind of outlandish to you. This personal time ...
Views: 696 - Time Management Stress: Are You Dealing With Your Stress Through Procrastination? - by Submitted on Sep 19, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenProcrastination can actually be a defense mechanism you use to deal with your time management stress. You really don’t procrastinate because you’re lazy or have some sort of character flaw. Procrastination can just be your way of dealing with something you aren’t comfortable with or about. ...
Views: 707 - Effective Time Management Skill: What are You Doing & What are Your Options? - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenSmall business owners, and all independent sales professionals are small business owners, must have effective time management skills. Without effective time management skills you work yourself to death, you get little enjoyment out of life, and you have far less financial rewards than you could ...
Views: 729 - Inundated In Intention - by Submitted on Sep 16, 2007 from Niquenya FulbrightThis week I find myself drowning in duties and obligations. I had intended to do quite a few things that have been left to fall to the wayside, so to speak. That's the thing about intentions. They mean absolutely nothing without action. What can you do to ensure that all of your ...
Views: 1324 - Time Management Strategy: Why Are You Meeting? - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenThis time management strategy will help you to make better decisions about meetings. People just love to hold meetings, don’t they? You can schedule meetings, plan on who to include in the meeting, prepare an agenda for the meeting, decide on when and where to hold the meeting, etc. All in ...
Views: 971 - Handling Interruptions Professionally - by Submitted on Sep 14, 2007 from Dr. Larry BakerFor years authors of books and articles about Time Management and leaders of Time Management seminars have suggested numerous simplistic, unrealistic approaches to solving the interruption problem. The most mentioned and most ridiculous suggestion among the Time Management tips is “learn ...
Views: 1438 - The Travel Maestro - Part II - Keeping Toll Free Travel 800-Numbers Handy - by Submitted on Sep 12, 2007 from Randall "Randy" DeanWhile you are waiting patiently for the gate agents to call for the boarding your flight, out of nowhere, an announcement comes across the loudspeaker: "Flight 371 -- Washington to Detroit -- has been canceled due to mechanical difficulties. Please see the gate agent to reschedule your flight." ...
Views: 1213 - Some Time-Saving "Killer Keystroke Combos" Using the ALT-Key - by Submitted on Sep 10, 2007 from Randall "Randy" DeanLearning new and useful keystroke combinations on your computer is a great way to become more efficient and productive at your normal day-to-day tasks. There are many very useful keystroke combinations, often using the CTRL key, the ALT key, the SHIFT key, and the “Windows” key on ...
Views: 2221(1 vote) - Personal Time Management: Is it Time to Stop and Evaluate Where You're Headed? - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenAre you really struggling with time management? I mean really struggling. The kind of struggling that ends up in extreme stress because you’re missing deadlines, losing important pieces of information, scheduling yourself to the point you don’t have a free 15 minute period in your ...
Views: 639 - Time Management Stress: Peak Performance - by Submitted on Sep 07, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenFocusing on peak performance can reduce your time management stress. Throughout your waking hours you have times when you are at you’re best mentally and times when you’re at your best physically. If possible you want to organize your activities around your peak times and where ...
Views: 1054 - Accentuate The Positive and Save Time - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2007 from Dr. Larry BakerHave you ever thought about the number of times in your life as a child and as an adult you were reprimanded /punished for doing the wrong thing, the right thing in the wrong way or being late? Then too, how many times were you praised/rewarded for doing the right thing in the right way and ...
Views: 1598 - Effective Time Management Skill for Agents and Advisors: Moving Toward Ideal - by Submitted on Sep 05, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenKnowing what ideal is will enable you to move toward it, and doing so is an effective time management skill. When you haven’t taken the time to define ideal you engage in a lot of activities, but those activities aren’t necessarily productive. They aren’t productive because ...
Views: 637 - Only Six Months to Live - by Submitted on Dec 27, 2021 from Charles HeinekeWhat is it about the words, "You've only got six months to live," that strike such fear in a human heart and shake a person to his or her very foundation? Why do those words cause such shock to those who receive them? Is it because they now know that their time is limited, and ...What is it ...
Views: 4388 - Time Management Strategy for Agents and Advisors: Are You Focused on Attracting the Right Clients? - by Submitted on Sep 04, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenThe wrong client base prevents you from being able to manage your time no matter what time management strategies you use. The wrong clients take up the bulk of your time. They are low value and they prevent you from being able to grow your business. They are the first to complain, and the ...
Views: 547 - Time Management Technique for Agents and Advisors: The Chaos Comes from How You Store Your Details - by Submitted on Sep 03, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenThis time management technique will help successful agents and advisors to control the chaos, and not so successful agents and advisors to be more successful. You have two levels of details that you need to track in your business. You have the action level related to all the activities ...
Views: 606 - Time Management Skill: A To Do List Should be a List of Actions - by Submitted on Sep 02, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenAn important time management skill is the ability to take the thoughts cluttering your mind, and turn them into actions. Ideally the objective of your time management skills is simplification of your very busy hectic life. When you try to store information in your head about what you need to ...
Views: 623 - Time Management Tip: What Outcome Do You Want from Your Time? - by Submitted on Sep 01, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenThis time management tip focuses on the outcome first and then the details. What is the ultimate outcome you want to achieve from your day? If you were to achieve even just that one outcome would it make today a success? What would prevent you from achieving that outcome today? How could you ...
Views: 610 - Reduce Stress and Save Time with these Microsoft Office Tips - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2007 from melanie gassWe all need to reduce stress at work. If you think about how you function at work, it's usually through the computer, answering phones, making copies, and using some form of today's technology. When it comes to our use of the computer, most of us are self-taught and never really learned it's ...
Views: 1202 - Time Management Tip: Are You taking on More than You can Handle? - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenThis time management tip is based on being realistic. Are you feeling frustrated, overwhelmed, and perplexed as to how to get everything done in a day? If you are, it may be time to ask yourself if you’re trying to do more than you can realistically handle. In your eagerness to excel, ...
Views: 668 - Personal Time Management: Are You Focused on being Effective? - by Submitted on Aug 29, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenIs your personal time management efficiency driven or effectiveness driven? Efficiency comes from doing things right the first time. The adage goes, if you don’t have time to do it right the first time when will you ever have time to do it right the second time. Perhaps the real question is, ...
Views: 1569 - Effective Time Managements Tips For Achieving Balance In Your Work And Family Life - by Submitted on Aug 29, 2007 from Adebola OniIn surveys done across many job categories, including construction, service industries like hotels and restaurants, small business owners and corporate moguls, a large percentage of those surveyed said that they felt they needed to improve their time management skills so that they didn’t ...
Views: 1621 - Effective Time Management Skill: Are You a Waffler? - by Submitted on Aug 27, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenEffective time management skills start with decisions. Do you have trouble making decisions? Do you make decisions by not making decisions? After you make decisions you do change your mind? If this sounds like you, you may be a waffler. Waffling is a time management killer. Why is it ...
Views: 2343 - 20 Time Tips And Beliefs About Time - by Submitted on Oct 18, 2009 from Thea WestraWhenever you are feeling overwhelmed or rushed, check-in with your personal perception and experience of ‘reality’. It might be useful to remember that our calendars and clocks are man-made; therefore these can also be ‘man-unmade’. The fact is, our globe moves ...
Views: 1690 - Time Management Technique: Can You Truly Get an ROI from Your Time? - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenThis time management technique is focused on getting the most from your most productive time. You spend your time either doing things that are important, interesting, or useful; or doing the things you have to do whether you want to do them or not. You only spend time on the things you want to ...
Views: 591 - Time Management Skill: Do You Want to have More Energy, Feel More Relaxed, and Get More Done? - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenYour time management skills are the missing link to what you want. Why are you so drained, stressed out, and overwhelmed now? Because you’ve allowed your life to get out of control and it’s surfacing through your time management. This lack of control isn’t just internal it’s externally ...
Views: 704 - Time Management Tip: Do You Lead by Crisis Management? - by Submitted on Aug 23, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenIs your management style whether self-management or managing a team the root of your time management issues? Crisis management is a management style that is consistently driven by uncontrolled external issues. This management style reacts to crisis rather than proactively predicting and ...
Views: 720 - 3 Scheduling Hints to Aid in Time Management - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2009 from Jan HaynerWe run out of time, have to change the day and times of various appointments or call ahead and tell people we are going to be late and this happens more often than we would like. Besides that, it is embarrassing to have other people know that we cannot be depended on to make the appointment at ...
Views: 1131 - Time Management or Life Management - by Submitted on Aug 22, 2007 from Deborah !BakerTime Management or Life Management Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. H. Jackson Brown There aren’t enough hours ...
Views: 1731 - 20 More Tips ON Managing Your Time From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach - by Submitted on Aug 22, 2007 from J. Glenn EbersoleEvery day we hear someone say, I am so busy. I just don't have enough time to get things done!And I imagine each of us has fallen into that same feeling from time to time. Are you a good manager of your time? Could you improve upon your use of this limited and precious item called time? If we ...
Views: 2242(3 votes) - The Five Secrets to Effective Time Management - by Submitted on Aug 21, 2007 from Mike BrooksI don't know about you, but 24 hours in a day isn't enough. And 8 - 9 hours for work just barely covers the paperwork, order follow-up, client calls, e-mails that need answering, voicemail messages, etc. "You mean you want me to prospect and find closing time, too? What, are you ...
Views: 820 - Time Management Tip: How to Stop Letting the Phone Put You Behind - by Submitted on Aug 20, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenMost people want and need a time management tip for effectively managing their use of the phone. Don’t be a slave to your phone learn how to master it and use it as the useful tool it can be. Unfortunately far too often the phone is your enemy sucking up tons of time with little benefit to ...
Views: 649 - Personal Time Management: Achieving Superior Performance Doing the Things You Hate - by Submitted on Aug 19, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenCould personal time management actually be fun? When you think of time management you may associate time management with making yourself live by someone else’s rules so you have more time for work. That’s definitely not fun or a fun way to look at time management. We all have things we have ...
Views: 688 - Time Management and Stress: You Have the Power to Ease the Stress - by Submitted on Aug 17, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenPoor time management is a frequent cause of stress. Inefficient time management can result in: embarrassment, anxiety, worry, feelings of inadequacy, anger, fear, depression, and even sadness. The bottom line is the only person who can change that for you, is you. You are the only person who ...
Views: 595 - Effective Time Management Skill: Are You Over Budget? - by Submitted on Aug 16, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenCrediting your time with its real value is an effective time management skill. Recognize that time is more valuable than your treasures, and treat it that way. Time can never be recovered, or replaced. Just like running out of money, running out of time is stressful and worrisome. There are ...
Views: 633 - Time Management Technique: Focus on What You're Doing - by Submitted on Aug 15, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenFocus is a great time management technique. Many of you like to think you can multi-task ,and women are purportedly supposed to be good at it, but the truth is no one is good at it. Let me explain what I mean by multi-tasking. Multi-tasking isn’t planning ahead and recognizing that if you ...
Views: 602 - Time Management Skill: Accessibility Destroying Your Productivity? - by Submitted on Aug 14, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenControlling your accessibility is a time management skill that will increase your overall productivity. Do you pride yourself on your open door policy? Do you take all your own calls, stopping what you’re doing to answer the phone? Do you regularly check your emails throughout the day? Let ...
Views: 748 - Time Management Tip: Communication Costing You Time? - by Submitted on Aug 13, 2007 from Cheryl ClausenThis time management tip is about the importance of communication in your efforts to be more efficient with your time. Communication always involves at least two parties, and the more people involved the more likely communication problems will cost you time. As with any good plan you have to ...
Views: 814 - 7 Principles of Creative Time Management - by Excerpted from chapter 1, "Creative Time Management: An Introduction" "Managing your time well means managing your life well. People who handle their time well do it creatively. They make short- and long-term plans, set and keep realistic schedules, take efficient and timely breaks, and view ...
Views: 2687 - Have You Got the Time? - by It seems the hustle and bustle of everyday life can easily consume our time and leave us with nothing but a used calendar and the thought "Wow, where did the time go?" if we're not careful. It's very easy to get caught up in responsibilities, work, and just plain everyday life.
In college I ...
Views: 993 - THE BIG HOLE IN YOUR DAY - by We all have 24 hours in a day and 7 days in a week. And if you multiply that out and my math is correct (I assume it is because I've done this a few times), that gives us a total of 168 hours per week. And the thing about time is that it can only be spent, it cannot be saved. (Did you ever have ...
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