Being able to effectively manage your time is a key element in being a good leader. Without the ability to manage your time, it will be impossible to maintain your title as a "good" leader while keeping up with school, having time to spend with your family and friends, and most importantly, having enough time to spend with yourself. The following are tips on how to make the most out of the time that you have.
Tips On Managing A Calendar
Purchase a date book that is convenient enough to carry easily.
Don’t try to have several calendars: it becomes redundant and confusing.
A book that displays an entire month of activities is easy to manage and interpret.
As soon as you are aware of an event, whether it be important or not, write it down in your calendar. It’s importance may become much greater.
With events constantly changing, write dates in pencil so they may be easily eliminated.
Before going to bed every night, refresh yourself of the next day’s activities.
Keeping in control of a calendar allows you to manage time. Without one, time manages you.
Time Saving Tips
Set specific goals, write them down, read them regularly.
Write out a "To Do" list, check off accomplishments.
Systematically plan each day/each hour/each ten seconds.
Be sensitive to the time, needs and wants of others.
Determine what must be done in priority order.
Provide for regular quiet time for prioritizing and planning.
Follow the schedule closely.
Do the most important task first.
Group similar duties together (clarify A, B, C).
Delegate as much as practical or possible.
Concentrate on one thing at a time.
Do not move off an assignment until it is completed.
Continually ask yourself, "How can I best use my time? Right now?"
Do the job right the first time.
Set deadlines, meet them, set new ones.
Learn to speed-read, speed-think, speed-work.
Be early for meetings and appointments (15 minutes).
Organize a detailed file system that works for you. Use it regularly.
Don’t hold unnecessary meetings. Do hold necessary ones. Make every second count.
Choose the right meeting skill for the kind of meeting you’re having.
Learn to say "no"
Limit the time spent with phone calls.
Make every second count
Do NOT over-work yourself.
Florida State Thespians
Lee Tempest, Director
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