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Delivering Time Management for IT Professionals: A Trainer's Manual

Delivering Time Management for IT Professionals: A Trainer's Manual

By : Jan Yager
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Table of Contents (19 chapters)
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Delivering Time Management for IT Professionals: A Trainer's Manual
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Delivering Time Management for IT Professionals: A Trainer's Manual
Credits
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Credits
About the Author
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About the Author
Acknowledgments
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Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
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About the Reviewers
Preface
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Preface
Introduction
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Introduction
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Why Time Management Is More Important Than Ever
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Why Time Management Is More Important Than Ever
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Introductory exercise
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A definition of time
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A definition of time management
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Why time management is more essential than ever before
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How time management relates to productivity
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Managing time in the IT world
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Consequences of poor time management
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Benefits of excellent time management
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Time management is a series of skills that can be taught
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Activities
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Bibliography
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Resources
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Summary
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How Efficient Are You? Self-Awareness of Your Body Clock and Work Style
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How Efficient Are You? Self-Awareness of Your Body Clock and Work Style
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Time management self-assessment
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Daily time log
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Setting up a weekend time log
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Activities
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Bibliography
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Resources
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Summary
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Setting Goals and Prioritizing
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Setting Goals and Prioritizing
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What you need to know about goal setting
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Setting a measurable goal
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Goals should also be S.M.A.R.T.
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Setting short- and long-term goals, and why it will make you more effective
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Prioritizing goals for greater clarity and productivity
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Pareto's 80/20 rule
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Re-evaluating and setting new goals
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Using a to-do list to prioritize goals
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Using the ACTION! system
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Activities
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Bibliography
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Summary
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Getting Organized
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Getting Organized
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Organizing your day: the value of routine
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Causes of disorder and how you can overcome it
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Organizing principles to apply to your things
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Organizing your desk
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Clearing the clutter
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Activities
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Bibliography
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Summary
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Identifying and Overcoming the Top 15 Time Wasters
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Identifying and Overcoming the Top 15 Time Wasters
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Procrastination
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Perfectionism
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Poor planning
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Poor pacing
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Failure to delegate
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Doing too much at once
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Complaining
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E-mail addiction
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Fear of success
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Internet surfing
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Fear of failure
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Depression
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Over-valuing or under-valuing your worth
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Jealousy
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Blaming others
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Activities
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Bibliography
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Summary
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Dealing with Distractions, Interruptions, and Handling Change
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Dealing with Distractions, Interruptions, and Handling Change
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Taking control of your time and your day
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Improving your concentration and focus – understanding your brain!
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Dealing with distractions
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Most typical reasons for distractions at work
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Coping with the most common causes of work distractions
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Limoncelli's mutual interruption shield approach
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Cirillo's The Pomodoro Technique®
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
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Multitasking – does it work?
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Handling change
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Activities
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Bibliography
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Summary
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Enhancing Your Verbal and Written Communication Skills for Efficiency
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Enhancing Your Verbal and Written Communication Skills for Efficiency
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How body language impacts on how your words are perceived
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How improved verbal and written communication skills will enhance your productivity by setting goals
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Writing effective e-mails
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Improving your listening skills
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Making the most of meetings
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Using your phone more efficiently
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Communication time saver
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Activities
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Bibliography
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Summary
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Setting and Meeting Deadlines
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Setting and Meeting Deadlines
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Why do so many people dread deadlines?
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Changing attitudes toward deadlines
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Deadlines as a useful time management tool
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Guidelines for how to set realistic deadlines
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Project management basics
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Working with a project manager – is this something you should be delegating? If so, to whom?
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Strategies if you agreed to an unrealistically quick deadline
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If you and your staff practice effective time management, you are more likely to set and meet deadlines
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Activities
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Bibliography
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Resources
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Associations
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Summary
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Improving Your Work and Personal Relationships
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Improving Your Work and Personal Relationships
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Why work relationships matter
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Getting along better with others at work
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Dealing with conflict
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Making time for connections at work
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Tips for improving your business relationships
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Collaborating for innovation and efficiency
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Successful delegation
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Why delegating is a time saver
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Selecting the right person to delegate to
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Dealing with the poor time management skills of those you work for or report to
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Fostering better personal relationships
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Activities
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Bibliography
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Resources
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Networking groups
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Summary
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Cultivating a Work-Life Balance
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Cultivating a Work-Life Balance
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Defining work-life balance
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Why having a work-life balance is so important
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Recognizing if your life is out of balance
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The reality or myth of work-life balance
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Creating your ideal workday
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The hazards of being a workaholic
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The top six ways to develop work-life balance
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Why taking vacation time is key for your work and for your greater efficiency and balance
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Making the most of your evenings and weekends
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Activities
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Bibliography
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Summary
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Closing the Training
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Closing the Training
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Keeping up with technology
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Time and culture considerations
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Cross-cultural issues
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Top 12 time management ideas for IT professionals
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Creating a work and personal self-improvement plan
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Conducting your Q&A session
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The final review of the training
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Distributing and collecting the training evaluation
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Activities
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Bibliography
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Resources
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Summary
Appendix
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Appendix
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Sample training agendas and additional forums
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Sample agendas One-day time management training for IT Professionals
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Two half-day time management training for IT professionals
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10-week course schedule for time management training for IT professionals
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Two-day comprehensive time management training (retreat) for IT professionals (agenda)
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90-minute time management training for IT professionals (GPS)
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Daily time logs
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Daily phone logs
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ACTION! plan
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Glossary

Activities

Here are several activities for your attendees to do, which are related to this chapter. The activities begin at a more elementary level, with the second activity more intermediary, and the third for someone who has more advanced time management skills. But you can also have everyone do all three activities if you like. The benefit of having all the attendees do all three levels of activities is that they are getting two or three times the reinforcement of the ideas that they learned in this module. The negative aspect of having attendees do all three exercises is that it will take two or three times as long to complete the activities.

Activity 1

Make a list of time management challenges that you are currently facing. Next to that list, note whether you think that particular challenge is unique to your IT position, or if anyone and everyone deals with it.

Look over your answers and see whether you can group your IT-specific challenges apart from those that you would be facing, whatever field you were working in.

Activity 2

Think about the last time you felt that you were in total control of how you were spending your work and your personal time. When was that? What were you doing differently from what you are doing now? Was the office environment different? Were you performing a dissimilar job?

How can you recreate the conditions that aided your productivity?

Activity 3

Take out your smartphone and program your phone to go off in five minutes. If you do not have a timer on your phone, tell the group that you are going to stop them after five minutes. Ask them to sit and do nothing but think for the five minutes.

At the end of the five minutes, ask the group to share their answers to the following questions:

  • How did you feel taking five minutes to "just think"? Was it comfortable? Uncomfortable? Stressful? Relaxing?

  • When was the last time you had five minutes of uninterrupted thinking time?

  • What did you think about?

  • Would there be a benefit to building into your work day at least five minutes of uninterrupted thinking time?

  • When and how will you implement that five minutes of thinking time if you agree this would be beneficial to your goal of improved time management?

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