Kickstart Your Time Management

Chapter 1: Time Management - what is it?
The time and stress crisis.Why are we always so short of time.Some common assumptions.Main issues.Chapter 2: What sort of person are you?Knowing ourselves is the key to success.Activity analysis exercise.Understanding the difficulties.Reactive and proactive behaviour.Challenge ourselves.Chapter 3: Making a start. Good habits v. bad.How to adapt.Action plan for time management.What needs to be changed to succeed.Goals that are worth the effort.Chapter 4: Stressed? Health related issues and work/life balance.Coping with stress.Defining positive and negative stress situations.Why try to do it all?Creating personal reserves.Chapter 5: Time Management in the home.When did we last read a book?How to meet the demands of domestic life.Stop trying to prove we're perfect.Avoiding exploitation - lighten the load.Chapter 6: Time Management at work.All the Ds : de legating, deadlines, drop it or do it.Interruptions and how to deal with them.Focus on the present.Developing contingency plans.Chapter 7: People management - clients and staff; friends and family.Communicating effectively.Introducing boundaries - without causing offence.How to spot the HMPs in your life (High Maintenance People).Assertive techniques for dealing with awkward situations.Chapter 8: How to manage technology and make the most of it.Beating the gremlins.Coping with glitches, problems and catastrophes.Fighting the paper war.Reduce those piles.Alternative ways of dealing with internal communications.Chapter 9: Meetings - social and professional - the classic time wasters.Goals for success - planning, agendas, time keeping, focus.Are we sitting too comfortably?Knowledge management - controlling information and knowledge.What to keep and how to find it.Record keeping, contacts data base.Simple systems that work.Chapter 10: Maintenance plan.Keeping up the good work.Positive approaches to self-management.Checklists and tracker sheets.Suggestions as to how to keep