Time Management

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Spend 70% of your time learning on the job
	Commit to using new approaches you learn from this guide each day for at least one month. Set a daily reminder on your email or phone to help you remember. Time management is a learned skill. It may seem to take more of your time to use these techniques at first. However, once you implement best practices, you will find the investment was worth it.
	Structure your workload by creating a to-do list. Use the linked article and its templates to identify a system for tracking and prioritizing to-dos that will meet your needs.
	Stop checking email and start tackling your top priorities. Spend just 10 minutes now to create an Urgent/Important Matrix for your work and post it in your workspace. Follow the strategies provided to help you manage these different areas.
	Have a strategy for overcoming procrastination or lack of motivation. Try “Eating the Frog” every morning. Make a to-do list and circle the toughest task that often gets avoided. Next, commit to completing the toughest tasks first each day.

Spend 20% of your time learning from others
	Outline some of your time management challenge areas and share them with your boss at your next one-on-one meeting. Fill out the Urgent/Important Matrix and edit it during your conversation so that it incorporates your manager’s input.
	Are you time-challenged? Start here. Take this quiz to help you identify opportunities to improve your time management skills. Use the results to reflect on what you can do differently. Discuss what you learn and plan to do with a trusted colleague.
	Let Randy Pausch be a mentor to you on time management by watching this video. Select one thing you will do differently as a result of listening to his advice.

Spend 10% of your time learning through courses and reading
	Time Management Competency Information
	Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
	The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
	Techniques for Improved Time Management (2.5 hours)
	Randy Pausch Lecture: Time Management
	Decrease Your Stress, Increase Your Output
	Eat that Frog!
	10 Time Management Tips that Work
	How Good Is Your Time Management?
	How Smart Leaders Talk About Time (Harvard Business Review blog)
	Urgent/Important Matrix
	Time Management (click here for discount registration information)
	Managing Multiple Projects, Competing Priorities & Tight Deadlines (click here for discount registration information)