Time Management from Dr. P. UDHAYA KUMAR Associate Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering K.L.N. College of Engineering Pottapalayam – 630 611

time management

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Time Management
Dr. P. UDHAYA KUMAR
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical
Engineering
K.L.N. College of Engineering
Pottapalayam –630 611

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Time Management
Itismanagingourselvesinrelation
totime.Itissettingprioritiesand
takingchargeofyoursituationand
timeutilization.

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SYNOPSIS
Time Management will help you:
•To develop the personal feeling of time.
•To think about the future time, set goals and
work out new proposals and plans.
•To analyze how you spend time –where, how
and why you spend time now.
•To reduce the influence of time deficit.
•To get rid of hurry.
•To avoid excessive time spending.

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SYNOPSIS
•To learn how to save your time through
delegating
•To redistribute your time for achieving the best
results.
•To study the techniques that would allow you
to save your time during the meetings, reading,
writing the documents, business trips,
telephone calls etc.
•To use more time for creative thinking.
•To make time your ally, not the enemy.

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1.The Present

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1.The Present
Yesterday is History
Tomorrow’s a Mystery
But Today is a Gift
That’s Why They Call it
The Present

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Time is a Non Renewable
Resource
Once it is gone, it is gone.
You will never see this moment
again.

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To Realize the Value of:
•ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.
•ONE MONTH, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.
•ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.
•ONE DAY, ask a daily wage laborer with kids to feed.
•ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.
•ONE MINUTE, ask a person who missed the train.
•ONE SECOND, ask a person who just avoided an accident.
•ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who won a silver medal in the
Olympics.

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Benefits of time management
•Efficient
•Successful
•Healthy

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Obstacles to effective time
management
Unclear objectives
Disorganization
Inability to say “no”

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Obstacles to effective time
management
Interruptions
More interruptions
Periods of inactivity

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Obstacles to effective time
management
Too many things at once
Stress and fatigue
All work and no play

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What can we do?
Recognize that obstacles exist
Identify them
Employ strategies to overcome

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Set goals
•Specific
•Measurable

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•Achievable
•Realistic
•Time-based
Set goals
•Specific
•Measurable

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Prioritize
•Do
•Delegate
•Delay
•Delete

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Prioritize
1.Address the urgent
2.Accomplish what you can early
3.Attach deadlines to things you delay

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Organize

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Learn when to say “NO”
•You can’t do
everything
•Don’t undertake things
you can’t complete
•Remain consistent to
your goals

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Use your waiting time
•On public transportation
•At the doctor’s office
•Waiting for your plane
•On hold
•When you are early

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Use your waiting time
Correspondence
Letters or memos
Books or tapes

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Concentrate on the task at hand
•Focus on your goal
•Tune out interruptions

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Consider your personal prime time
•Morning?
•Evening?
•Late night?

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How to plan your day
•Visualise your long term goal
•Try to do your planning at the same time every
day.
•Use only one planner to keep track of your
appointments
•Write out a To do list every day
•Don’t jam your day full of activities.
•Do it now.
Always plan time for balance; include family,
fitness, recreation, Social and spiritual activities.

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Problems and Solutions for Proper
Time Management
Personal:
Know priorities of doing things
Be organized
Spend some time as leisure time
Psychological:
Have self discipline
Learn to say “No” if it demands
Believe in team work
Have a watch on the work entrusted

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Problems and Solutions for Proper
Time Management
External:
Maintain proper relationship with friends and
colleagues
Never attempt indirect interactions
Social:
Allot some time to spend with nature with
parents, to love, to listen, to dream to and to
think
Morning 4.00am to 9.00am is the best time
for work

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Problems and Solutions for Proper
Time Management
Postponement: Postponement or procrastination is
mainly due to a lack of interest or pleasantness in
work and the complexity of work.
Unpleasant tasks
Complex projects
Fear of failure
Lack of interest
Perfectionism
Distraction, lack of focus

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TIME MANAGEMENT:
AVOIDING TIME WASTERS
PROCRASTINATION IS THE THIEF OF TIME
No one is perfect. Everyone wastes some time. The
three activities that waste the most time are long
meetings, interruptions, and telephone calls. Here is
how you can reduce each dramatically.
•MEETINGS
•Avoid setting or attending unnecessary
meetings.
•Prepare a detailed agenda.

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MEETINGS
•Get someone to monitor time and inform the
participants if they are falling behind the
schedule.
•At the start of meeting obtain agreement on the
objective(s) to keep a focus and avoid time-
consuming discussions on unrelated topics.
•Record ideas on a flipchart to reduce
repetition.
•People receive biggest part of the information
through the eyes, not through the ears. The
Chinese say: «The picture is worth a thousand
words». Therefore, visual aids(Slides,diagrams,
charts) can save your time if they are simple
and easy to understand.

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MEETINGS
•Avoid dealing with items that are not on the
agenda. If someone goes off on a tangent:
•Politely ask what the matter has to do with the
agreed-upon objective.
•Ask if the item can be dealt with later or
outside the meeting.
PREPARATION TO THE MEETING
-Goals determination
-Topic study
-Discussion Scheme
-Final preparation

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MEETINGS
Goals Determination
•For example, to involve consultants of the
company.
•Improvement of the production process.
Topic study
•Collection of the facts and information.
•Determination of the main discussion subjects
•Discussion of the different view points.

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MEETINGS
Discussion scheme
•Setting of the ultimate goal.
•Consideration of the intermediate goals.
•Discussion questions.
•Planning of introductory speech before
the beginning of discussion.
•Making the meeting agenda.

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MEETINGS
Final preparation
•Printing and distribution of the invitations.
•Preparation of the conference hall.
•Preparation of the handouts, slides,
transparencies etc. These materials should be
distributed before the meeting starts. Clear
questions should be set at the beginning and at
the end of agenda. This way the meeting will
be started and finished on a high note. The
most important issues should be discussed at
the beginning when the minds of participants
are not yet overload..

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OFFICE INTERRUPTIONS
•Stand when people come in to chat. This will
prevent them from getting comfortable.
•Ask them if it’s important.
•Ask them if you can talk later in their office, a
place where you can control the length of the
conversation.
•Walk out long enough to get them out of your
office and then sneak back to continue your
work.
•Close your door.

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TELEPHONE
•Leave complete messages for people who
are not available so they won’t have to
call back.
•Install a voice-mail system.
•Return calls to people’s voice mail after
business hours.
•Train your associates to deal with routine
issues on your behalf and to screen your
calls when you are under pressure.

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TELEPHONE
•Avoid unnecessary chitchat by answering with
your name followed by a question such as
“How may I help you?”
•Increase your chances of speaking to someone
after you are told that the person is “away from
the desk” or “in a meeting” by asking: “Could
you find her for me?”
•“Can he be interrupted?”
•“I’m returning her call, which was important”.

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PAPER WORK
•Keep your desk clean. Put things where
you can find them. Don’t put documents
in temporary places.
•Deal with each piece of paper once. File
it, respond to it, or dump it.
•Reduce time by responding to
correspondence in writing on the letter.
Fax it back, or photocopy it and send it
back.

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The Big Rocks of Life

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Is The Jar Full?
•Stephen Covey in his book,First
Things First, shares the following
story experienced by one of his
associates:
I attended a seminar once where
the instructor was lecturing on
time. At one point, he said, "Okay,
time for a quiz." He reached under
the table and pulled out a wide-
mouthed gallon jar. He set it on
the table next to a platter with
some fist-sized rocks on it. "How
many of these rocks do you think
we can get in the jar?" he asked.

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•Afterwemadeourguess,
hesaid,"Okay.Let'sfind
out."Hesetonerockinthe
jar...thenanother...
thenanother.Idon't
rememberhowmanyhe
gotin,buthegotthejar
full.Thenheasked,"Isthis
jarfull?"Everyonelooked
attherocksandsaid,
"Yes."

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•Thenhesaid,"Ahhh"He
reachedunderthetable
andpulledoutabucketof
gravel.Thenhedumped
somegravelinandshook
thejarandthegravelwent
inallthelittlespacesleftby
thebigrocks.Thenhe
grinnedandsaidonce
more,"Isthejarfull?"

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•Bythistimetheclasswas
ontohim."Probablynot,"
wesaid."Good!"he
replied.Hereachedunder
thetableandbroughtouta
bucketofsand.Hestarted
dumpingthesandinandit
wentintoallofthelittle
spacesleftbytherocksand
thegravel.Oncemorehe
lookedandsaid,"Isthisjar
full?""No!"weroared.

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•Hesaid,"Good!"andhe
grabbedapitcherofwater
andbegantopouritin.He
gotsomethinglikeaquart
ofwaterinthatjar.Then
hesaid,"Well,what'sthe
point?"Somebodysaid,
"Well,therearegaps,and
ifyouworkreallyhardyou
canalwaysfitsomemore
thingsintoyourlife."

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"No," he said, "that's not really
the point.
The point is this:
Put the
Big Rocks
in First

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Celebrate your success

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Tips for Successful Time
Management
Doing things with concentration, dedication conflicts and
commitment and not in a careless manner.
Trust others and distribute works to others
Never think about unnecessary things and never interfere
in others matters
Postponement of planned events is an avoidable bad habit
Breakdown your goals into smaller task with manageable
steps
Be punctual
Hurrying up is to always the best way of doing a thing
faster
Don’t forget or misplace things
Use a calendar/ Get organized

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Imagine the luxury of having more
time:-
To spend with your family
To go on that “special” vacation
To take up a new hobby
To read that latest, popular book
Or just to relax and live a little.
Yes, all of this is possible but you
must use time management
techniques to organize your
personal and business activities.

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