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How to make the most of your time

When time is getting ahead of you, bring it back under control with these learning ideas to help you manage your day

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“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot”

Time Management

Time Management

Take Control

Log on to Learning Zone for useful e-learning on managing your time

We recommend these 20 minute modules;

Analysing your use of time Avoiding Timestealers Planning and Prioritising your time

Open your Mind with mindtools.com

A website that provides practical straightforward tips, many freearticles and useful ideas. From the home page, click on the TimeManagement icon to discover innovative way to save time.

Go to www.mindtools.com

You need Help and Support too!...consider if;

Is this a recurring task Is there someone that has the skills, or can be taught the skills The task give someone a chance to develop I have the time to do Can someone else do the task

If you answer Yes, than consider delegating. Go to Learning Zoneand search under delegating for useful learning materials

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Manage what's important and urgent

This simple matrix will help you determine prioritise what is urgent and important, ahead of non urgent and non important tasks.

Go to www.businessballs.com for more info on Time management and download the matrix and other useful tools

Use a time log

This simple tool will record your daily activity, fill in your start and finish times, and you can quickly find out what is taking up your time.

Go to www.businessballs.com for more info and download the time log and other useful tools.

Manage your e-mail

Do you find yourself reacting to everyemail? By making a few tweaks to yoursettings you can have a filter system, thatcan highlight emails from your mostimportant contacts.

For this and other ideas why not try GettingStarted with Lotus Notes on Learning Zone

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Did you know Books 24x7 gives you instant access to a complete resource of books, research and best practise?

You can log on via Learning Zone and click on the Books 24x7 link and follow the instructions.

Or you can log in from home onwww.books24x7.com

You will be required to register the first time you enter, ensure you use your RSA email address

Once in you can start searching for content using the search box which is found on the top of most pages

Select your title and than use the links to select your chapters to read

Its as simple as that!

Books we recommend

This best seller gives deals with 7 habits of highly effective people. We recommend to have a read of Habit 3 – “First things first” and learn to manage your time effectively.

This book reveals practical solutions forgetting organized, working better and gettingrid of time wasting distractions.

We recommend to read Chapter 4 “Focusingyour efforts, Prioritizing tasks, Blocking yourTime” and Chapter 9 “Defending your day fromInterruptions”.