Whether you are the CEO of a big company. An intern just out of university. Or at any stage of your life. Effective time management skills are something that we can all appreciate.
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Welcome to our How effective is your time management skills survey
Welcome to our How effective is your time management skills survey
However, there just never seems to be enough time to get to it all. To get to your to-do-list. Be active on social media. Spend time with the family. Read that book you just never get time for. The ideal is to get to everything that needs to be done in a day and still have enough time (and energy) to do what you love. The answer? Effective time management skills.
There are many ways to improve your time management skills. As well as lots of digital tools to help you with this.
Project management tools like Trello, Asana, Scoro, Monday and many more. Online calendars and diaries like Calendly, Time and date or just plain old Google calendars.
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Time management tools
Google has a lot of very handy tools attached to your Google account, that you might not be using. The following are great tools to help you manage your time more effectively and they are all free, attached to your gmail account:
- Drive for saving important documents or images for easy reference
- Google docs for immediate sharing and combined editing
- Google sheets also for immediate sharing and shared editing
- Maps
- Contacts
- Translate
Developing effective time management skills could be life-changing. Getting to everything you need to do without the frustration, and you might even have some time left over at the end of the day. Sometimes it can be an easy fix. Finding ways to outsource whatever is taking you too much time. Or using tools that are already available to you. A small change might leave you with a whole lot of time.
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10 personality tips to help your Study Skills
- Find time to study – If you manage your time badly, inevitably you will be less productive than if you manage it well. This can lead to increased stress and anxiety levels, especially around exam time.
- Keep to a routine – Work in the same place at the same time each day. Also, make sure you have everything you need before you start.
- Work to your strengths – Schedule challenging tasks for when you are most alert, and routine ones for when you may be feeling more tired.
- Don’t waste time – Rather than reading irrelevant material, skim and scan to help you decide if you need to read something critically and in-depth.
- Avoid distractions – Related to above. Switch emails and social media off to prevent your mind from wandering while trying to learn new information!
- Regularly review your notes – Edit out what you don’t need. Ask yourself the question: “Is this information is relevant to my assignment, and how does it relate to what I already know.”
- Vary how you to take notes – For example, use Mind Maps and diagrams to generate ideas and linear notes to focus your ideas for essay or report plans.
- Be critical – Make sure that you always add your own comment to every concept or quotation that you write down. Maintain a critical and analytical approach at all times!
- Plan your work – If writing an assignment produce a detailed plan before you start to write it. This will make the drafting process much less stressful
- Understand different styles – By understanding different writing styles – such as academic, journal and journalistic styles – you can put what you read into perspective. In particular, you can become more aware of any particular bias.
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