Time Management In An Instant : 60 Ways to Make the Most of Your Day

The In An Instant series is a new brand of user-friendly, engaging, and practical reference guides on core business topics, which capitalizes on the authors' extensive experience and knowledge, as well as interviews they have conducted with leading business experts. Written in an upbeat and engaging style, the series presents 60 tips and techniques with anecdotes, examples, and exercises that the reader can immediately apply to make their work life more efficient, effective, and satisfying. Time Management In An Instant helps the reader overcome this feeling of overload and avoid the traps that lead to an unproductive relationship with time. It offers field-tested time habits and expert advice based on the latest research that will help the reader better manage, create, and spend their time with more satisfaction and results. Front Cover Praise for No Nonsense: Time Management Copyright Page Contents Introduction Part 1: Assess Your Current Relationship with Time 1. Determine Your Current Level of Time Literacy 2. Understand Your Relationship with Time 3. Get Out of Time Denial 4. Keep an Activity Log Part 2: Set, Design, and Achieve Your Goals 5. Make Your Goals Specific 6. Achieve Your Goals Every Day 7. Create Structure and Support for Your Goals 8. Beware the “Not-Goal” 9. Break Bad Habits That Hold You Back Part 3: Avoid Interruptions, Distractions, and Multitasking 10. Keep an Interruption Log 11. Avoid Interruptions from Others 12. Stop Self-Interruptions 13. Overcome Multitasking Madness 14. Give Yourself a Procrastination Inoculation 15. Manage Outgoing and Incoming Calls Part 4: Learn to Delegate 16. Size Up Your Delegation Skills 17. Determine the Tasks to Assign 18. Create a Delegation Plan 19. Decide to Whom You Will Delegate Part 5: Manage Your Online and Off-Line Meetings 20. Give Every Meeting (Big or Small) Structure 21. Develop Good Meeting-Management Habits 22. Promote Participation in Meetings 23. Strengthen Your Meeting-Facilitation Skills 24. Create Connection When Video Conferencing 25. Make the Most of an Off-Site 26. Use Meetings to Step Back and Solve Problems 27. Use Live Conference Time Wisely Part 6: Maximize Your To-Do Lists and Calendars 28. Create an Effective Daily To-Do List 29. Retool Your Priority System 30. Utilize the Four D’s 31. Choose Paper or Digital 32. Generate Energy with Your To-Do List Part 7: Minimize Unfinished Business 33. Sort Your Stuff 34. Tame Your Paper Tiger 35. Clean Out Your Physical File Drawers 36. Review and Renew Your Paper Files 37. Capture Your Open Items 38. Break Down Your Big To-Do’s into Bite-Size Pieces 39. Broaden Your Definition of Finished Part 8: Embrace Personal Productivity Habits 40. Cultivate Time-Efficient Conversations 41. Don’t Get Caught in the “Yes” Trap 42. Move Your Body 43. Get a Good Night’s Sleep 44. Take a Real Vacation 45. Stay Sane After Returning from Vacation Part 9: Right-Size Your Social Media and Email 46. Give Your Laptop a New Lease on Life 47. Get Control of Your Email 48. Sort Out Your Electronic Inbox 49. Streamline Your Outgoing Email 50. Use Social Media Wisely Conclusion About the Authors Back Cover

In today's hurly-burly work environment, many businesspeople find it challenging to avoid distraction, stay focused, use their time and energy to maximum benefit, and gain ground on important goals and outcomes. One study by the Families and Work Institute found that one third of Americans are overworked and more than 50 percent of those surveyed say they are either doing too many tasks at the same time or are frequently interrupted during the workday-or both. In short, we are overloaded!

Time Management In An Instant helps the reader overcome this feeling of overload and avoid the traps that lead to an unproductive relationship with time. It offers field-tested time habits and expert advice based on the latest research that will help the reader better manage, create, and spend their time with more satisfaction and results.

The book outlines the best practices for improving everyday work situations including:
• Harnessing the power of completion.
• Linking your core values to key projects.
• Finding the power of mini-tasks.
• Playing the 80/20 game of accomplishment.
• Getting a procrastination inoculation.

Fight distraction and find your focus. Go for your goals. Master your online life. These tips will change your life and reclaim your time! "Karen and Keiths easy-to-implement advice will maximize your efficiency and enable you to find more time in your day." Tory Johnson, CEO of Women For Hire and contributor on Good Morning America " No Time Management is full of powerful principles for being more productive with less stress and more satisfaction. I recommend this book for anyone who wants to make the most of their time in business." Dr. Brenda Wade, relationship expert on The Dr. Oz Show In todays hurly-burly work environment, many businesspeople find it challenging to avoid distraction, stay focused, use their time and energy to maximum benefit, and gain ground on important goals and outcomes. In short, we are overloaded. No Time Management helps you overcome this feeling of overload and avoid the traps that lead to an unproductive relationship with time. The book offers smart solutions, powerful habits, and proven time hacks for improving everyday work Defeat distraction: “Karen and Keith's easy-to-implement advice will maximize your efficiency and enable you to find more time in your day.” —Tory Johnson, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The ShiftWritten by a longtime consultant who has served clients in over fifty countries, No Nonsense: Time Management helps you overcome overload and avoid the traps that lead to an unproductive relationship with time. You'll find smart solutions, powerful habits, and proven time hacks for improving everyday work situations: •Harness the power of completion•Stay sane when dealing with social media•Get a procrastination inoculation•Play the 80/20 game of accomplishment•Set goals•Make lists•Have more efficient conversations•Organize your inbox•Retool your priority system•Identify your interruptions•Overcome multitasking madness, and more "In today's hurly-burly work environment, many business people find it challenging to avoid distraction, stay focused, use their time and energy to maximum benefit, and gain ground on important goals and outcomes. In short, we are overloaded. This book can help you overcome this feeling of overload and avoid the traps that lead to an unproductive relationship with time"-- Provided by publisher Offers helpful techniques and new methods for dealing with time constraints and work overload by examining the power of completion, managing mini-tasks, dealing with interruptions, and learning to multi-task with efficiency. Original.