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To determine how effective you are as a manager of your time, add up your scores
for the 40 items.
If you scored
120+ You are an excellent manager of your time both personally and at work.
100 – 120 You are doing a good job.
80 – 100 You should consider improving your time management.
< 80 You should consider training in time management, to improve your
efficiency.
Activity
In your journal reflect on the following:
How did you rate as a time manager?
Which three time management traps do you fall into most often?
What strategy will you use to help you to overcome these traps?
Monitor your time management over the next two weeks. In your journal reflect
on how you have gone.
Has this change in focus helped? Are you now spending more time in Quadrant 2
(refer to the activity in Section 9.2)?
Reference
Carlopio, J. R., Andrewartha, G., & Armstrong, H. (1997). Developing management skills in
Australia (adapted from the text by D. Whetten & K. Cameron). Melbourne, Australia:
Longman.
