I Prefer Work Management: Managing to Work in the Available Time

I Prefer Work Management: Managing to Work in the Available Time

I would suggest that there is no such thing as "Time Management".
What there is, is the managing of the work to be done in the time available, i.e., "Work Management".
So it is not so much that a person has time management traits as work management traits.
For example, procrastination may have an effect on time utilisation, but it has a work-orientated cause. Weaknesses in planning and organising work from the workload are causes of the 'not enough time' effect.

Time is there, invariable; what is variable is how we work in relation to it. To do this requires:

• Confirm the time available (out of the 365 days per year remove the weekends, statutory and personal holidays, known events for home and leisure activities, training time). What remains is work time. Divide this up into working periods per day.
• Establish precisely, measurably and realistically what has to be achieved in your role.
• Separate this up into tasks and activities and schedule them into your work-day periods against known deadlines (there is a wide variety of techniques and tools to assist this). Set this on the basis of other work place requirements and in so far as is possible, your biorhythm pattern.
• Enhance your personal working effectiveness by improving your managerial (self-working) skills through the use of effective reading, writing, planning and organising, problem solving and decision-making with related analytical and creative thinking etc. The use of such tools and processes can improve peoples' learning and working skills; in some cases to 40%, 90% and over 100%. Combining these skills with diaries and planners time scheduling can make major increases in working smarter and more effectively. This is particularly true when the approach is applied on a team rather than an individual basis.

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		2 ARUN SHINDE Consultant, India
	Time Management at Critical Stage Time management can be very important. Like when a doctor performs an operation on his patient. Or w... Sign up

		3 Georges Van Cauwenbergh Business Consultant, Ireland
	Managing your Time I agree with Maurice that it is all about managing your time in the available time. The time that is... Sign up

		2 Maurice Hogarth Consultant, United Kingdom
	The Urgency of Deadline @ARUN SHINDE:I agree that some requirements are time critical i.e. 'urgent', in that they need to be... Sign up

		3 Georges Van Cauwenbergh Business Consultant, Ireland
	You Have to Manage Within the Available Time I agree: It's about managing within the available time, instead of managing time itself. That's it ... Sign up

		1 Muhammad Moeen HR Consultant, Pakistan
	Priority Settings can be Helpful for Time Management Every one is facing time management issues. As a result we are giving less attention towards ourselv... Sign up

		1 Dargo D Strategy Consultant, United States
	I Believe We're Talking About a Task Management Triage I agree with Maurice and Georges about the concept of finite time whereby it's important to manage t... Sign up

		1 Eric Kazembe Entrepreneur, Malawi
	Factors Affecting Time Management I agree with Maurice's Ideas on Work Management. However that idea does not include external factors... Sign up

		2 Maurice Hogarth Consultant, United Kingdom
	Balancing and Prioritizing Targets and Tasks in the Home, Social and Work Domains To Mohammed Moeen & Eric Kazembe We live in a world of three 'domains'. Our Home Domain, Social Dom... Sign up

		0 Paramathmuni srinivas Kumar India
	Experience Management with the Available Time I agree with Maurice Hogarth. However we need to be firmly be grounded in the current reality where ... Sign up