A Personal Time-Management Self-Assessment
Posted in Productivity
As you hone and improve your productivity skills and systems, it’s a good idea to pause from time to time and assess how well you are implementing your time-management strategies.
Ask yourself the following questions:
- How much control do you have over the use of your time?
- How severely are you locked in to demands and deadlines?
- Do you know how to say no when an opportunity presents itself?
- Within the time you control, are you doing only necessary and appropriate tasks?
- Are you completing those tasks in the most efficient way?
- Do you know your energy cycle?
- Do you make best use of peak energy periods?
- Do you set priorities?
- Do you consistently handle your most important tasks first?
Have you found areas in the above, which could use improvement?
Now, review the four statements below and come up with four ways you can address the issues.
- I can make better use of my time by:
- The things standing between me and effective time management are:
- If I found five hours a week, here is how I would use them:
- These tasks take up a lot of my time, but don’t seem to contribute to my goals and objectives:
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muy buena idea.
contesto el cuestionario y ojala que se sumen otras respuestas.
# I can make better use of my time by:
Descanzando mejor (meditacion).
Haciendo una cosa por vez (aunque sean periodos cortos de tiempo).
Planificando las tareas y teniendo todas las herramientas antes de comenzar.
comienzo por lo mas complejo por la mañana y dejo las consas simples para despues del mediodia.
# The things standing between me and effective time management are:
Los llamados telefonicos inoportunos (se resuelve apagando el telefono e indicando la hora en la que uno puede ser llamado)
La falta de planificacion - que permite avanzar sobre areas no contiguas de trabajo para alcanzar un objetivo final (en forma de espiral)
Las autolimitaciones relativas a el cansancio y la recreacion, ya que a veces se requiere descanzar antes de avanzar nuevamente.
La demora (o incumplimiento de otros)
# If I found five hours a week, here is how I would use them:
Estudiar ingles 2 horas por semana
dibujar dos horas por semana
organizr los viejos contactos de la agenda una hora por semana
# These tasks take up a lot of my time, but don’t seem to contribute to my goals and objectives:
Ayudar a dos personas a que se puedan comunicar o que resuelvan sus problemas (entre ellas)
Reclamar un pedido realizado, cuando esas personas no cumplen
reconfirmar las reuniones por temor a que se cancelen y uno no fuera correctamente informado
ayudar a las personas que no terminan de comprometerse con su trabajo (que no esta directamente relacionado con el mio)