Time Management:

Optimize For all round Productivity

by

Jude Akhabue

OUTLINE

• Time Management defined

• Why time management

• Can We really manage time?

• What do we actually do with ALL the Time.

• What to do

• How to measure time ROI

• Closing

What is Time Management

• Time management is the act or process of planning and exercising conscious control over the amount of time spent on specific activities, especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency or productivity.

▫ Wikipedia.com

Why do we need TM

• To save time

• To reduce stress

• To increase work output

• To have more control over our lives

• To function effectively

• To live an ordered and structured life

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BUT….

• CAN WE REALY MANAGE TIME

What do we actually DO with All

the time we’ve got

Thoughts

Actions

Conversations, yeah, talk!

So if you Managed those 3 things

• You would have better managed time.

• Simply PUT,

Time management

SELF MANAGEMENT

Time Management Hacks

• Plan • Employ a budget• Prioritize• Have a “Me Only” time• Sequence• Stop hardwork-ing, start smart-working• 5 things to learn• Rest and sleep• Good food and water• Synchronize• Review.

Plan : Vision and Goal settingA Plan could be

▫ Long, Medium or Short term.

• Plans should be

▫ Simple

▫ Realistic

▫ Specific

▫ Complete

Goals and visions should be written out…

Budgeting

• Estimates right?

remember the talk about cutting coat to size? –that’s budgeting.

•So, cut your activities to time

•Plan your activities with time in view

Prioritize, without it, everything will collapse

• It puts things in real perspective

▫ in order of importance to YOU and your GOALS.

• It removes the backlogs

▫ helping you focus on what’s important.

Do You have a ‘Me Alone’ Time

• If you don’t, now you should.

• Shut everyone out, its you and only you.

• Remember those 3 things you do with ALL your time (talk, act, think),

• Now think on these things OR

• Just do nothing, yap NADA… shut down the factory.

SEQUENCE

• Put order into it

▫ Imagine if all these bricks were scattered

▫ Look, even evolution was sequential, why not TIME.

(HARDwork VS SMARTwork)ing.Smartworking = Hardwork + Tools

HOW; Use Tools like

▫ Schedules

▫ To do Lists

▫ Apps

▫ Timesheets

5 Things You MUST learn

▫ Multi-tasking

▫ Delegating

▫ The Art of saying “NO”

▫ Leveraging on other people’s time

▫ Recreating Yourself in others (leadership + mentorship)

Rest+ Sleep =

• Being alive

• Being alert

• being energized

So make it a habit to Rest and Sleep

(at the right time)

You need all these to be PRODUCTIVE.

Good Food + Water =

• Life

• Vitality

• Energy

• Freshness

• Essential body minerals

Again, You need all these to be PRODUCTIVE.

SYNCRONIZEwrap all we’ve learnt into one personalised strategy

Plan Personal time Prioritization

Hard/smart-working Tools

delegation/multi-tasking/saying No

Rest & Sleep Food & water.

THEN

REVIEW

• Find out if you are profiting,

• Remember the 80/20 Principle

• Find out where YOU ROCK, put more EFFORT , it will eventually yield the RESULTS you want to

see.

I CAN NOW TAKE YOUR QUESTIONS

Akhabue Jude

• Jude is a book lover and an insightful youth on a quest to be an internationally acclaimed thoughtpreneur. He employs his listening skills in delivering insightful solutions to needs. He is passionate about making simple life’s complexities.

• Jude enjoys teaching (secular and Christian) and he unwinds by taking power naps or playing sudoku.

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