Learn the art of organizing your life so you're in control 
 Improve your Time Management helps you discover what you do that wastes time and tells you how to eliminate those time drainers. It explains how to plan your life better so that you deal with important activities and tasks at the most appropriate times. It tackles time-wasting activities such as paperwork, phone calls and meetings. And just to make sure that you aren't the only person in the office working at optimum efficiency, it explains how to instill good time management practices in your staff. 
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<li>One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. </li>
<li> Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author’s many years of experience. </li>
<li>Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress. </li>
<li>Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to you a richer understanding of time management. </li>
<li>Helps you to reduce stress and improve your work-life balance. </li>
<li>Straightforward, jargon-free text demystifies time management and puts you back in charge of your time. </li>
<li>Unique in offering advice on training staff to maximize your time too. </li>
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Topics include: Choose your personal priorities' How much time have you got?; Plan your time; Using transition time; Conquer procrastination; learn to say no; Reduce paperwork; Subdue your phone; Master your meetings; The art of delegating; Deal with information overload; Time management training; Taking it further

Improve Your Time Management: A Teach Yourself Guide (Teach Yourself Series)

Bird, Polly

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McGraw=Hill

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Is this the right book for me? Improve your Time Management is the definitive guide to the basics of time management - the art of organizing your life so that you are in control. You don't need complicated equipment, dozens of staff or a six-month break to learn how to save time and achieve more. All you need is a willingness to try some of the ideas in this book and the energy to start now. The book starts by asking you what you want to do with your life and explains how to work out how you really spend your time. It helps you to find out what you do that wastes time and tells you how to eliminate it then shows you how to plan your life better so that you deal with important activities and tasks at the most appropriate times. It tackles time-wasting activities such as paperwork, phone calls and meetings. And just to make sure that you aren't the only person in your office working at optimum efficiency, it explains how to instill good time management practices in your staff. By the time you finish the book, you will not only be using your time more effectively but will have more of it. This book will help you turn time into your best friend rather than your worst enemy.  Improve Your Time Management includes: Chapter 1: Choose your personal priorities Chapter 2: How much time have you got? Chapter 3: Plan your time Chapter 4: Using transition time Chapter 5: Conquer procrastination Chapter 6: Learn to say 'no' Chapter 7: Reduce paperwork Chapter 8: Subdue your phone Chapter 9: Master your meetings Chapter 10: The art of delegating Chapter 11: Deal with information overload Chapter 12: Time management training  Learn effortlessly with a new easy-to-read page design and added features: Not got much time? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. Author insights Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience. Test yourself Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress. Extend your knowledge Extra online articles to give you a richer understanding of time management. Try this Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.

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