Time Management

Resources

• The Philosophy of Time Management | Brad Aeon | TEDxConcordia
  • Time management used to be a philosophical topic — can time really be managed?
  • Jean-Paul Sartre: We have the tendency to trick ourselves to believe that we are not free. That’s why we make excuses.
  • ==Make sacrifices, or make excuses. Only one will make your life more meaningful.==
• How I Manage My Time - 10 Time Management Tips | Ali Abdaal
  • We own all of our time.
  • Daily Highlight, ensures this one is done!
  • Hell yeah or NO.
  • Time Blocking
  • Parkinson’s Law
  • Protected Time
  • Delegation
  • Automated scheduling
• How to manage your time more effectively (according to machines) - Brian Christian | TED-Ed
  • Don’t spend too much time on managing time and ranking things — the scheduler.
  • Interruption coalescing.

Time Management Matrix

• Urgent & Important — Minimize
• Not Urgent & Important — Maximize, the leadership quadrant
• Not Important & Urgent — Manage
• Not Urgent & Not Important — Avoid

Delegation

1. Communicate the task
2. Explain the context of the task –- why
3. Agree on the standards for completion
4. Gain commitment
5. Communicate what you have delegated to the team
6. Provide support, as required