The John Adair Handbook of Management and Leadership
You should reach a point where you can be clear about long-term aims/directions and medium, or short term goals/objectives which ...
The review of objective achievement (the measure of your performance) should be at the intervals you have budgeted for each (eg ...
When measuring and assessing improvements you cannot lose sight of the cost and quality dimension.Time improvements should not c ...
The Adair urgency/importance matrix In the matrix you can identify tasks to: 1 do now 2 plan for (to use quality time) 3 do quic ...
Your plan of action for the day should follow these rules: Make your plan at the end of the previous day or at the start of eac ...
If you are not, then consider: Are you unrealistic in trying to do too much? Were you unprepared (ie not ready) at the time you ...
using the morning for words and figure work, when most people perform such work better than at other times? aware that we reach ...
do you handle each piece of paper only once? (this one idea is known to save up to one hour per day or 220 hours a year!) do yo ...
Managing meetings A Time Lord’s approach to meetings is to confront three main issues: is the meeting strictly necessary at all ...
Before holding any meeting, ask yourself these five questions: 1 Whyare we meeting? 2 Whatwould be the result of not having the ...
You should decide what each type of meeting you are to be involved with actually is and plan to run each type as time efficientl ...
Deciding what to delegate You should select the type of work for delegation and consider to whom it can be delegated. Type of wo ...
5 We like to be ‘on top of everything’ 6 Will our subordinates outstrip us? 7 ‘Nobody can do it as well as I can’. So, what qual ...
Making use of committed time You can increase your achievement level by using committed time (time that is ‘booked’ for example ...
How topped-up are your batteries? This is a five point test: Stress Time and stress are cyclists on the same tandem. Bad managem ...
1 Irritability 2 Ever-present anxiety/worry 3 Constant tiredness 4 Increased consumption: alcohol cigarettes drugs 5 Over-eatin ...
If you find yourself suffering from stress then you must: 1 do something about it: look at the stress factors and assess what ca ...
Summary and six-month follow-up test Keep the Adair ten principles of time management in the forefront of your mind and in your ...
Chapter 1: Time management 29 Six-month follow-up test You should periodically test your time management skills by asking yourse ...
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