1. Time Management

2. 10 Time-Management
Techniques at Work
Daily Planning
3) Spend 15 Minutes Each Day Planning Your
Day
– Find a place that is relatively free of distractions
– Review your long-range goals
– Make sure the number of tasks and the amount of time
required by each is well within the time available in your day
– Set specific daily goals for tasks
– Anticipate obstacles
– Prioritize your tasks Laser Thinking – Focus all of your energy and power
on these two questions:
2)What are the highest priorities in my life?
3)Of these priorities, which do I value most?

3. 10 Time-Management
Techniques at Work
Daily Planning
9) Prioritized Daily Tasks Lists (Not To-
Do Lists)
Step 1: Make a list of everything you would like to accomplish
today, including tasks that are not urgent.
Step 2: Give a value to each item on the list (ABC System)
A – Vital tasks – MUST be done
B – Important tasks – Should be done
C – Relatively trivial tasks – Could be done
Step 3: Give a numerical value to each item on the list
Example: A1 – A4, B1 – B4, C1 – C4
Step 4: Enter into your calendar or planner

4. 10 Time-Management
Techniques at Work
Accountability
8) Share Your Goals with
Others
– Make public what you are trying to achieve
• Goal-Setting Meetings
• Big Brothers
• Facebook
• Family & Friends
– When others know what your goals are,
they can hold you accountable to achieving
them
– Find mentors who have the knowledge in
those things you are trying to achieve

5. 10 Time-Management
Techniques at Work
Your Workspace
7) Keep Your Workspace
Clean
– A clean and tidy space creates an
atmosphere without distractions and stress
and supports people being focused.
– People will take you more seriously when
your space is in order. Messy offices
scream “disorganized individual”
– One inbox – All papers on your desk
should go into one inbox to be addressed.
Inbox lines up with your prioritized daily
tasks. Remainder of desk should be tidy.

6. 10 Time-Management
Techniques at Work
Your Approach
6) Stop Multitasking
– Turn your prioritized daily tasks list into a
schedule. Blocks of time help.
– 5 Goals to achieve each work week = 1 Per
Day. Put your head down and get one big
thing done each day.
– Avoid over-commitment. Be realistic about
what you can do in the time you have. Don’t
be afraid to say no.
“Decades of research (not to mention common sense) indicate that
the quality of one’s output and depth of thought deteriorate as one
attends to ever more tasks.” – Time Magazine

7. 10 Time-Management
Techniques at Work
Your Approach
5) Stop Procrastinating
– Do difficult things quickly; waiting doesn’t
make them easier.
– Don’t always ask for a deadline.
Deadlines can become excuses to
procrastinate
– My Day, Friday - On Fridays, do
everything you’ve been putting off lately
and go into the weekend with weight off
your shoulders
“Why Do Something Tomorrow When You Can Do It Today”

8. 10 Time-Management
Techniques at Work
Your Approach
4) Be A Problem Solver
– Don’t always rely on others for the answer or for help
when a little extra work or research will help you find
the solution and become more educated
– By being a problem solver you are essentially
helping to manage others’ events because they don’t
have to solve your problems
– Google search, sit back and think about the problem,
take the time to learn how to do it once so you know
how to do it in the future
“If I had one hour to save the world I would spend fifty-five minutes defining
the problem and only five minutes finding the solution” - Einstein

9. 10 Time-Management
Techniques at Work
Email
3) Organize Your Inbox for
Christ’s Sake
– Keep your inbox below 10 emails that entail
you to take action
– Create sub-folders for main categories
– Clean out your sub-folders once a month
– Flag your critical emails that require
immediate response

10. 10 Time-Management
Techniques at Work
Email
2) Don’t Have Your Email Open All of
the Time
– Consistent emails coming through derail your
progress on vital tasks
– When you are going through email, read each
email thoroughly (don’t scan) and respond with
accuracy
– Build email time into your calendar

11. 10 Time-Management
Techniques at Work
Your Sanity
1) Take Time For Yourself
– Find “me-time” activities that align with your
governing values
– It’s ok to do things that aren’t “productive” if
they are done in moderation
– “Me time” re-charges your batteries to help you
become more productive in the future

12. Initiative

13. 5 Ways To Take Initiative
On The Job
2) The Mindset
– A valuable employee accomplishes his/her job
responsibilities, but is always searching for
ways to do it better or enhance the things that
he/she works on.
– Initiative generally begins with frustration. When
you get frustrated at work, make a list of those
things and then brainstorm the things you can
do to remove that frustration.
– Challenge the process but only challenge it if
you plan to provide a solution

14. 5 Ways To Take Initiative
On The Job
2) Study Phi Delt 2020
– 2020 lays out where Phi Delta Theta is going
– The document can be a guide for where to
direct your initiative
– Figure out who is working on the different
pieces and state your desire to help to those
people

15. 5 Ways To Take Initiative
On The Job
3) At Chapter Houses
– Don’t rely on the students to direct your
schedule
– Identify the chapter’s issues and work with
officers to improve those issues. Build>Talk
– Get your hands dirty and do something
unexpected

16. 5 Ways To Take Initiative
On The Job
4) For Your Career
– You have amazing opportunities in front of you
for at least the next two years, don’t waste time.
– Identify your passions and learn about things
you can work on within the organization to gain
experience.
– Pick brains and be proactive to build
relationships.

17. 5 Ways To Take Initiative
On The Job
5) Always Be Working On A
Side Project
– Google’s 80/20 work time philosophy
– Pick a side project that focuses on something
that you are passionate about
– Get feedback along the way from colleagues,
peers and the people you work with on the road

18. Travel Hacking

19. Airline Points Programs
To Sign Up For

20. Hotel Points Programs
To Sign Up For

21. The Best Travel Credit
Cards
#1 – Chase Sapphire Preferred

22. The Best Travel Credit
Cards
#2 – American Express Starwood Preferred Guest
Earn 10,000 points after your first purchase (no
minimum required), and an additional
15,000 points after completing a $5,000
minimum spend within six months.
Easily transfer points pretty much anywhere
For every 20,000 points you transfer to airline
miles, you receive a 20% bonus.
Use points for Starwood hotel stays, including
the “Cash and Points”
No annual fee for the first year. ($65)

23. Top Ways To Accumulate
Points
1. Try to use your credit card to purchase everything.
• But try to stay under 50% of your limit amount
• If you don’t plan on paying your credit card balance each
month, don’t listen to anything I say.
2. Utilize your credit card shopping portals to make purchases
• Login to your credit cards site and look for ways to earn points
• Portals will link you to their partner merchants
• You’ll receive extra points per dollar for linking through the
portal
3. Other opportunities
• Top Guest
• Follow programs on Facebook for giveaways
• Follow blogs – They aggregate opportunities
• U.S. Airways Grand Slam game

24. Helpful Travel Apps

25. Blogs To Follow
The Points Guy
The Art of Non Conformity
Frequent Miler
Frugal Travel Guy
Loyalty Traveler
Million Mile Secrets
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