Time Management Blog

The term time management is somewhat of an anomaly because we can’t actually manage time!Telling delegates this at the beginning of a time management course can produce some frowning faces. We quickly move on to suggest that what we can do though is to manage ourselves in relation to time, we can control how we use time and we can control how we spend it.Time Management courses are attended by many different types of people and, in a sense, that’s another of the fun factors.Learning about what other people do and how they manage their time is not only interesting, but also gives insight that is beneficial to all attendees.Our company has welcomed all levels of organizational membership from clerical workers up to regional and top CEOs.A critical issue in time management training is what can be taken away. We tell our delegates that we provide them with a toolbox of skills to enable them to become more productive, less stressed and happier at work.However, research actually shows that many time management courses just don’t hit the mark. Why?Often they are not designed within the principles of human learning. There may be little thought given to preparing for the course, analyzing how time is spent before attending and to how learning from the course can be effectively transferred back to the workplace.Make sure that you consider all of these issues before signing up for a course. Once you have signed up, if your facilitator does as we do and asks you to carry out some pre-course work, make sure that you do.I recently ran an in-house course where not one of the attendees did the pre-course [...] Continue Reading…

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There are many aspects to any successful business that have to be covered. Many of them go on behind the scenes to make other aspects of it as productive as possible. Business time management is certainly one that falls into that category. Without it you may be losing money with your business.If you haven’t made it a primary focus for your business it isn’t too late to start. Take a close look at where time is perhaps being wasted in your business. Those are your weakest links where you need to make some concessions. Those types of losses aren’t going to improve on their own so do your part to take action.There are many different ways in which you can accomplish better business time management. You may need to implement just a few basics or a complete system. Business time management methods though will ensure you are able to get the most production from your employees.By focusing on improving business time management you can avoid having unrealistic expectations of what employees can accomplish. If you constantly ask employees to do unreasonable things then you’ll find they’ll resign.  Most of them won’t speak up instead they’ll be quiet and start to look for another job.Surprisingly others will just simply stop showing up for work. Their time and attendance will become poor and you’ll waste a lot of time on performance management.  Either way you have lost valuable employees. It is always more cost effective to keep the employees you do have than to train new ones.So when focusing on improving your business time management you need to take your workforce with you.  Don’t simply try to impose [...] Continue Reading…

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All of us want our lives to be perfect. We all want money, success, love and happiness, yet how many of us actually get it all? Unfortunately most of us spend a better part of our lives thinking about what we don’t have. We see people who’ve got things we believe we deserve and let jealousy slither into our minds. We often feel sorry for ourselves and convince our minds that s this is what was meant for us. Truth is god wanted the best for us, still does. It is our thoughts and actions that prevent the best things in life from reaching us. There is a simple law of the universe behind it; it’s called the “Law of attraction.” What is the Law of attraction? What is this law of attraction? “The secret” talks about it, Oprah believes in it. Intellectuals are debating about it. The law of attraction simply means that we get what we focus on the most through our thoughts, feelings and actions. So, if we are constantly thinking about how unlucky we are we attract bad luck into our lives. If we feel jealous of others we will continue to bring more jealous feelings into our hearts and into our minds. If we cheat someone, the same shall happen to us! The “Law of attraction” is not some new age principle, if you open your eyes and ears and look around you’ll realize that almost every religion in the world talks about it in one way or the other. Haven’t we always been told what goes around comes around? The problem is that we always assumed that’s it only our [...] Continue Reading…

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Ready? O.K. Here we go…W Clement Stone said, “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe he will achieve.” On May 25th 1961 J F Kennedy set out a major plan for the United States scientists when he declared to a joint session of congress, ‘First, I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.’ Up until he said that walking on the moon was the stuff of science fiction with the emphasis on ‘FICTION’. It was in 1953 that Sir Edmund Hilary and Sherpa Tensing stood at the top of the highest mountain in the world, when all said the climb was impossible becaus eof the lack of oxygen. In May 1964 a young medical student, Dr Roger Bannister, won world renown, not for his skills in the operating theatre, but by doing something in 3 minutes 59.4 seconds that no man had done before What did he do, he finally ran a mile in under 4 minutes! The stuff of comics and story books before he ran on a little race track in Oxford, against his old university aided by two colleagues in Chris Brasher and Chris Chataway. Even though eminant physicians had tried to prove that the human body could not withstand the demand placed on it by attempting such a feat. Why are these events so important when you are setting goals, the individuals had an undying belief in what they wanted to achieve in spite of the number of knowledgeable advisors that surrounded [...] Continue Reading…

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