You can't stop the clock, but you can invest a few hours in this course and gain time management habits that will last a lifetime. First, you'll conduct a self-audit that uncovers problem areas and misjudgments about where your time goes. Then you'll set up a planning system that suits your style. Next comes an energetic plan of attack on external time wasters, such as endless meetings and mounting paperwork, as well as internal black holes like clutter and procrastination.

• Regard time as your ally, not your enemy
• Keep a meaningful time log
• Pinpoint your biggest time wasters
• Set goals that streamline your schedule
• Make "to do" lists that work
• Set priorities
• Get out from under piles of e-mail
• Turn meetings to your advantage
• Cut through the clutter on your desk
• Overcome your reluctance to delegate
• Say "no" and be respected for it
• Apply special systems such as 3-V (for goal setting) and CALM ( for management under crisis)

Course Objective:

Develop a system for managing time by using a self-audit, personal planner, and plan of action. Develop skills to use delegation in traditional work settings as well as team-based environments.

About This Course:

As one course among many offered in our curriculum, Taking Control with Time Management, Third Edition, has been designed specifically for the practicing manager and the future manager. It provides private, self-paced, individualized study; learning and self-evaluation through programmed instruction. Paralleling a business school course of study, our curriculum makes available a stable, inclusive, and continuing transmittal of practices and perspectives to those working managers and prospective managers who, on their own time and at their own pace, want to continue their education.

M. J. Weeks is the Director of the Center for Management at Sioux Falls College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She is also a management/communications consultant and has given seminars and workshops for numerous corporations, professional associations, and organizations in both the public and private sector.

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