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Effective Time Management Strategies

newsletter, present these tips at staff meetings.
Provide time management training opportunities for
your employees. Purchase books and CD’s on the
subject and make them available for use. Conduct
on-site organization seminars. Provide employees
with personal organizers, whether manual or
electronic. Making organization and time
management visible at the work place will remind
employees of the importance of these skills.

Time is a constant. When poor organizational skills
lead to wasted time, this time cannot be retrieved.
Each person in an organization needs to evaluate
where their time is going on any given day and then
implement a few time saving methods to overcome
their biggest time wasters. Implementation of too
many techniques at one time can result in an
employee spending more time organizing than
working or becoming overwhelmed and just
returning to their old ways out of frustration.

There are numerous time wasters in the work
place. Indecision and procrastination are perhaps
the two biggest offenders. However, they are
closely followed by inefficiency, interruptions,
unnecessary errors, crisis management, poor

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