Table 5.

6 Ten Principles of Time Management

Principle Suggestion
Understand your Take a look at what takes up most of your time. In a 24-hour
use day, what takes up the largest block of time (aside from
of time. sleeping)? Once you know how you spend your time, you’ll be
able to see what can be and should be cut back.
Attack your time- Begin by getting rid of the one time-waster that you can do
wasters. without most easily.
Avoid It’s highly unlikely that you will do a better job when you’re
procrastination. rushed
Use tools. Everyone needs help and you can’t keep everything in short-
term memory. Twitter can easily be used for jogging your
memory, as can the various online calendars.
Prioritize. Put some order into your list
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Table 5.6 Ten Principles of Time Management

(continued)
Principle Suggestion
Break up large tasks. Most large tasks can be divided into small steps to
accomplish during the workday.
Set realistic time It often helps to set time limits, especially when the task is
limits.  unpleasant, like doing your income taxes or reading a boring
but important textbook.
Reward yourself. Rewarding yourself, after completing a unit of work often
makes unpleasant tasks a bit easier to accomplish.
Do things once For example, one of the popular rules for time management is
rather than twice. to look only once at a piece of paper, act on it, and then file or
get rid of it.
Avoid distractions. Minimize whatever distractions you can control. You’re not
going to be able to control all of them.
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Table 5.7 Monochronic and Polychronic Time
The Monochronic-Time Person The Polychronic-Time Person
Does one thing at a time. Does several things at once.
Treats time schedules and plans very Treats time schedules and plans as
seriously; feels they may be broken only useful (not sacred) tools; feels they may
for the most serious of reasons. be broken for a variety of causes.
Considers the job the most important Considers the family and interpersonal
part of life, ahead of even family. relationships more important than the
job.
Considers privacy extremely important; Is actively involved with others; works in
seldom borrows or lends to others; works the presence of and with lots of people
independently. at the same time.
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Nonverbal Communication
Competence
➢Decoding Nonverbal Messages
➢Encoding Nonverbal Messages
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LO 5.3 Use nonverbal messages with effectiveness in decoding and
encoding meaning.