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Personal effectiveness at work
Barriers to effective time management may be internal or external
Internal External
Discipline
Procrastination Workload issues
Available resources
Lack of motivation
Overcome the internal barriers Overcome the external barriers
Be assertive – identify your Do the right thing right –
time waters and resolve to doing the right thing is
deal with them, learn to say effectiveness; doing things
NO, delegate right is efficiency
Identify and make use of Eliminate the urgent – urgent
your personal biorhythms, tasks with short-term
or ‘up’ time and ‘down’ time consequences often get
done to the detriment of the
Conquer procrastination – important tasks – those with
find out what causes you to long-term, goal-related
put off doing something implications
and remedy it
Break big jobs into little
Promise yourself a reward steps
Use negotiation to improve
the use of time
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