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How to develop time management skills

Time Management is necessary for those who have goals and objectives to achieve.

For the one who does not have any purpose, time is expendable, time hangs on one's hands, there is plenty of time. Similarly, time management is not required when the level of performance is low, and there is plenty of slack in the system.

Road-blocks to effective time management

The following are the major road-blocks to the effective utilization of time.

Attitude Fear, lack of goals, tolerance of delays and inefficiencies, a feeling that the job is too difficult, voluminous, diverse, unpleasant, low self esteem.

Knowledge Inadequate information, unclear priorities, lack of know-how on the planning process and how to tackle problems.

Environment noise, visitors, poor housekeeping, organizational disturbances, lack of tools, work overload.

Physiology Fatigue, illness, stress.

And what are you going to do with the time you and your co-workers start saving with all this time management? You could always find more that needs doing, of course. But before you spend all your time, consider this: There's no greater reward you can give yourself ad your colleagues than a little time off. Make Time : Set aside time each week for the thinking and reading, meeting and talking that never seems to get done. 

Mark this time on your calendar, and keep that appointment, just as you'd keep an appointment with your boss or your most important client. And give your employees some time to do that as well. It will be the best time your spend on the job

Characteristics Of Time Management

These are as under:

It is a resource given equally to everyone.

It comes to us in small bits - one bit at any moment.

It cannot be accumulated and stored and, hence, must be judiciously used as it comes.

Time classifies events into 3 zones - Past, Present and Future. We lose effectiveness by not getting the most out of the present.

We neither live in the past not have over-anxiety for the future.

Time is synonymous with change. If there is no change there is no time- there is eternity.

Time is a dimension in which change takes place. Time is also a measure of change.

Life is change; nothing stands still.

Self management is basically time management.

Time is the one factor over which man has no control; it is being spent whether we like it or not.

But is it being spent to a purpose, are we trying to adapt or condition ourselves so that the ever turning wheel of time takes us to the heights of achievements? This is what Time management is all about - to be able to manage time so that we get the optimum out of it. To be good leaders of time, we first have to know what are the characteristics of time Management.