My Time Management Skills Are

1. My Time Management Skills Are Not so Hot Fabulous Can be better No Yes Yes No Read D. Goleman Emotional Intelligence Move to LIST PAGE Stay Learn Help your friends Leave Now Better Seek other help Worse

2. LPOD Algorithm

3. LIST Do I have a list of everything I do? Yes No I know how long things really take to do Create a list Yes No Calendar Exercise Move to Prioritize Page

4. Are my goals & priorities clear? Prioritize Slide Yes No Clarify personal goals and priorities Some tools: Covey’s 7 habits Family/friend/team discussions Mentor Goal Sheet Move to Organize Slide

5. Organize Do I take the time to plan my day? Yes No Plan each day Do my plans work? Yes No Why not? Unsched Interruptions? Emergencies? Unrealistic Agenda GREAT!!! Procrastinate? Really a pattern? Move to next Organization slide Truly random? Understand why and stop (see appended list of reasons) Fix plan Cope

6. Organize Are my time estimates accurate? No Yes Fix Estimates Reprioritize Not important Important Don’t do it! SAY NO! Move to Delegate slide

7. Delegate Am I the best person to do this task? No Yes Delegate Am I the only person to do this? Is it easy to delegate? Yes No Yes No Should I do it? Delegate? Why not? Good-done • Do it! • Remember: • Best time • TIO rule • Clean up • Throw out • Plan rewards Need Conflict Resolution Need Team Building Need better communication Need to re-evaluate against priorities

8. Common Reasons for Procrastination • Don’t want to fail • Don’t want to do unappealing task • Don’t measure the cost of wasted time • Don’t recognize that incomplete tasks increase stress • Don’t want others to see calm • Believe that looking busy will lead to positive attention and promotion • unlikely