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Handbook on Time Management Skills
Time Waster Possible Causes Solutions
Meetings Over-communication
Meetings Discourage unnecessary
Meetings Poor leadership meetings. Convene only
Meetings those needed.
Meetings Indecision
Meetings Use agendas. Stick to the
Insistence on all the facts; subject. Prepare concise
Lack of delegation paralysis by analysis minutes as soon as possible.
Lack of delegation Fear of consequences of
a mistake Lack of confidence in the
Lack of delegation facts. Improve fact finding
Haste Lack of a rational decision- and validating procedures.
Haste making process.
Haste Accept risks as inevitable.
Haste Decide without all facts.
Paperwork & reading Delegate the right to be
Paperwork & reading wrong. Use mistakes as a
Paperwork & reading learning process.
Get facts, set goals,
investigate alternatives and
negative consequences,
make the decision, then
implement it.
Fear of subordinates’ Train. Allow mistakes.
inadequacy. Replace if necessary.
Fear of subordinates’ Delegate fully. Give credit.
competence Challenge the potential and
reward merit.
Work overload on
subordinates Balance the workload.
Impatience with detail Reorder priorities.
Responding to the urgent Take time to get it right. Save
the time of doing it over.
Lack of planning ahead
Distinguish between the
Attempting too much in too urgent and the important.
little time.
Knowledge explosion Take time to plan. It repays
itself many times over.
“Computeritis”
Attempt less, delegate much
Failure to screen more.
Read selectively. Learn
speed reading.
Manage computer data by
exception.
Delegate reading to
subordinates. Ask for
summaries.
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