Rate your time-management skills
Complete this short self-evaluation checklist to assess your time-management skills. In a perfect world, your answers would be all yesses. The noes are the areas you need work on to develop those skills.
Update: here’s a good lesson in reading and editing before posting. As Archaeogeek points out in the comments below, not all the answers should be yes. Some should be no. I had intended to phrase the questions in such a way as the best answer would be yes. As I got into the writing flow, that went by the wayside, and I didn’t proofread carefully.
My apologies. Questions 4, 8, 9 & 11 would be better answered no.
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Yes |
No |
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| 1) Is managing my time a priority for me? | ||
| 2) Do I have goals and a plan to meet them? | ||
| 3) Do I set deadlines for getting things finished? | ||
| 4) Do I tend to procrastinate? | ||
| 5) Do I have all the information I need to organize my time effectively? | ||
| 6) Do I set priorities for all my tasks? | ||
| 7) Do I work from a to-do list or a written plan? | ||
| 8. Do I spend too much time managing crises? | ||
| 9) Am I trying to do too much? | ||
| 10) Do I delegate effectively? | ||
| 11) Do I spend too much time getting everything perfect, every time? | ||
| 12) Do I know my top three time-wasters and am I working to get rid of them? | ||
| 13) Do I spend too much time on low-priority tasks? | ||
| 14) Do I regularly check my progress against my plan and to-do list? | ||
| 15) Do I make effective use of my waiting time? | ||
| 16) Do I know and use my cycle of most and least productive times through the day? | ||
| 17) Do I make sure my schedule includes time to rest and recharge? |
I don’t imagine there is anyone who is 100% perfect on their time-management skills. Being aware of your areas of weakness allows you to focus your systems and practices on strengthening the weaknesses.
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This is a good idea, but I’m not sure all the answers would be yes, in a perfect world-see qu’s 4, 8, 9, 11 etc…