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Tony Jacob
Assistant Professor
IMG, Trivandrum
TIME FOR EVERYTHING
Plan efficiently
Procrastination
Perfectionism
Stress & Anxiety Lack of
Planning
Interruptions
Depression
Attempting too
Not saying ‘no’ much
Being unorganized
Time Wasters
Meetings without
Fear of
agenda
delegating
Problems With
Objectives/Priorities
No clear deadline
Inadequate
resources
No passion for doing
the work
Tired/unable to
Shifting Priorities
concentrate
Planning
Organizing
Delegating
Managing Interruptions
Scheduling
Prioritizing
Steps to Use the Urgent/Important Matrix
The following are the steps to use the Urgent/Important Matrix to prioritize
your activities:
List down all the activities and projects you feel you have to do
Make sure that you include all tasks that take up your time
at work, even if you feel the task is unimportant.
Now, use a scale of 1 to 5 to assign importance to each activity
Important
1. 2.
Quadrant of Manage Quadrant of
Leadership & Quality
Not Important
3. 4.
Quadrant of Quadrant of Waste
Deception
Urgent/Important Matrix
For efficient time management, increase your Q-2 and ensure your tasks are
important but not urgent.
Urgent Non-Urgent
Important Q-1 Q-2
Quadrant of Necessity Quadrant of Quality and Personal
Not Overburdening
Keeping a Yourself
To -Do List
Getting Avoiding
Distracted Not Breaks Multitasking
Prioritizing
Principles of Time Management
The following are some of the core principles that you should
follow for successful time management.
Develop a habit of
eliminating at least one Reserve large blocks of
time waster from your life time for important
each week activities
Handle papers once, after they’ve been read, file them away in an
orderly fashion.
Have a list of calls, that are needed to be made and taken, with a
number of facts that are necessary to know and questions to be
asked – allows a set time to be put in order to avoid rambling.
Try working on one task for a period of time then move on to
another- see if this helps your interest and motivation as it’s a new
subject.
If you are able to delegate tasks to others, do so !.
Tools for Time Management
There are various tools that you
can use for Time Management,
Planners
1 such as:
2 Calendar
To -do
Lists 3
4 Activity
Logs
Diary 5