Improve Your Time Management: Teach Yourself

Description

Improve your Time Management is the definitive guide to the basics of time management - the art of organising your life so that you are in control. You don't need complicated equipment, dozens of staff or a six-month break to learn how to save time and achieve more. All you need is a willingness to try some of the ideas in this book and the energy to start now. Improve your Time Management starts by asking you what you want to do with your life and explains how to work out how you really spend your time. It helps you to find out what you do that wastes time and tells you how to eliminate it then shows you how to plan your life better so that you deal with important activities and tasks at the most appropriate times. It tackles time-wasting activities such as paperwork, phone calls and meetings. And just to make sure that you aren't the only person in your office working at optimum efficiency, it explains how to instil good time management practices in your staff. By the time you finish the book, you will not only be using your time more effectively but will have more of it. This book will help you turn time into your best friend rather than your worst enemy.

Polly Bird is a prolific professional writer of business books, specialising in time management. Like most people she has to to combine many different roles and activities and admits that without time management she would be swamped. During the past 20 years that she has been a professional author she has also raised a family, run a home, been a campaigner, successfully studied part-time for a Ph.D and become a bookbinder, so her strategies are tried and tested!