How to be a Time Master

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-906465-67-4
Verlag: Capstone

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 131 mm x 200 mm, Gewicht: 236 g

If you could save just 24 minutes a day you'd gain an extra 6 days a year. Some say the world was created in 6 days. What could you achieve?
You don't have to work harder or spend hours defining your life goals in order to manage your time. The Time Master approach is full of quick painkilling solutions and long-term 'know-how'.

This is more than time management, this is time mastery.

Forget about complicated planning techniques and endless charts - with over 400 practical tips and tricks at your fingertips, you'll be able to tackle your main problem areas and take back control of your time and your life, quickly. As a Time Master, you will learn how to slow down and enjoy doing the things you really want to do.

Master ways to:

- Work out what really needs to be done and when
- Manage emails, your screen time and the telephone
- Run brilliant meetings
- Deal with interruptions
- Stop others stealing your time
- Say no when necessary and manage our boss
- Make time for your health
- And many more.

'A common sense approach to time management. in an easy to read format.' --Clare Evans, Time Management Coach and author of Time Management For Dummies

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooper, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Zeitmanagement

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1
What Type of Time Master Are You? 5
Take the Time Master test

The Time Master Truths: 11
Learn to think like a Time Master

What Are Your Time Problems? 30
Identify the aspects of your life where lack of time control is the cause of most difficulty and pain

1 Master Your Planning 33

2 Master Your Priorities 54

3 Master Your Stuff 60

4 Master Your Procrastination 82

5 Master Your Time Estimates 90

6 Master Your Telephone 94

7 Master Your Email 104

8 Master Your Screen Time 113

9 Master Your Meetings 121

10 Master Your Interruptions 130

11 Master Your Time ieves 139

12 Master the Ability to Say No! 146

13 Master Your Boss 152

14 Master Your Delegation Skills 159

15 Master Your Time-Charging 163

16 Master Your Decision-Making 169

17 Master Your Health 175

18 Don't Be Time Bored! 179

Time Master Travel Tips 184

Time Master Shopping Tips 189

Time Master Eating Out Tips 192

Time Master Business Tips 194

The Time Master Commandments 198

Index 203

Über Autor(innen)

A former Managing Director of a PR company, Ian Cooper has been a business and personal development consultant and skills presenter in the professional services sector for over 30 years. During this time he has given approximately 5,000 professional speaking engagements and advised over 800 organisations on communications and personal and business development topics.
Ian is the author of 12 books, the latest being Just Ask for Pearson published in 2007.  He is a regular presenter at business seminars, conferences, corporate training events and other general seminars. Ian plans to create a course based around the 'How to Be a Time Lord' concept. At the moment, he runs an Internet web seminar business, which provides live web seminar broadcasts with a database of over 12,000 professionals and it often attracts audiences of over 500. He has just begun a joint venture to market a programme of seminars to over 4,000 HR/Personnel departments.