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Cassie Whitlock
Director of HR
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Erin Boettge
Content Marketing Manager
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Defining Time Management

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TimeManagement:
Theabilitytouseone’stime
effectivelyandproductively.

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HR Enables Time Management
• Effective and consistent payroll
• Clear policies and procedures (such as time off)
• Protection from discrimination and harassment
• Workplace safety

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It takes up to 23 minutes to
refocus after an interruption.

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Poll Question: How Many Browser Tabs?
A. 1-5
B. 5-10
C. 10-15
D. 15-20
E. I lost count.

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There is no time management,
only choice management.
-KevinEikenberry

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Information Overload
• Concept developed in 1970 by American
sociologist and futurologist Alvin Toffer
• Increasing at a rapid rate
• Too much information triggers panic response
• Data threatens us with fear of not doing enough

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A life without stress can sometimes be a life without significance.
But how you interpret the body’s response makes all the
difference. A lot of new research shows that it’s possible to
develop your self-awareness to the extent that you can approach
something in a positive way, that for another person would be
negatively stressful. Another person might feel flooded or
overwhelmed, but you can develop a way to approach the data in
a constructive manner.
-DanSiegel
APlace for Stress

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Can We Keep Up?

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Time Management and Values

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Developing Values
• Examine Your Mission: this is your purpose for
existing as an organization (beyond money)
• Develop a Vision: determine what you want to
accomplish with specifics
• Set Goals: complete concrete tasks to turn
mission into reality.

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Overextending leaves
employees two choices:
appear uncommitted, or put
life into their background tabs

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Karoshi: Death by Overwork
A 2016 report examining karoshi cases and their cause of death
found that more than 20% of people in a survey of
10,000 Japanese workers said that they worked
at least 80 hours of overtime a month.

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The most effective values
define how you’re going to
realize your vision with both
aspirations and limits.

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Time Management Challenges

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Benefits of Planning Ahead
• You have a sense of what to expect tomorrow.
• You sleep better without thinking about work.
• It helps you to compartmentalize work and home.
• You wake with a purpose, a sense of the day. You are less reactive.
• You will know if you made realistic plans for the day.
SOURCE: Laura Stack, Time Management: How to Control Your
Day in an Uncontrollable Workplace

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Benefits of Planning Ahead
• You avoid the decision dilemma. These are the time gaps when you
ask yourself, ”What should I do next?”
• You have a clear focus, which reduces your stress level.
• You enjoy family time more. You are present and focused.
SOURCE: Laura Stack, Time Management: How to Control Your
Day in an Uncontrollable Workplace

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Meetings: Get Moving

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• Provide physical space and calendar space
• Communicate a clear purpose
• Set an agenda
• Designate someone to keep things on track
• Plan time for spoken communication
• Ask for and implement feedback
Coordinating Meetings

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Make the meeting
about purpose
rather than presenter.

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Email: Tool, or Cruel Weapon?
• Every message looks the same
• Every message needs a decision
• It takes time to browse the inbox
• One email leads to another in a chain reaction
• Each email needs an action or response

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Taming Your Inbox
• Schedule designated email times
• Transition periods (home to work, work to lunch,
work to home) are great times to do email
• Close your email program and disable
notifications when it isn’t time for email
• Add actions from emails to your plan

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Controlling Mass Emails
• Comments on announcements can lead to
repeated distractions
• Personality emails are low priority and often
serve as little more than a notification distraction
• Respond directly and privately to mass emailers
• Encourage the proper channels for expression

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Hello, [NAME]
I think it’s great that you’re [Describe the message here]
Can I encourage you to use [alternate messaging method] for items like this in the
future? [Alternate messaging method] is a great place to share passions, interests
and group opportunities. This also allows us to be mindful of how to use our
[company name] email wisely, knowing that every group email pulls the attention of
the entire company.
Thanks and [restate support for item that’s important to sender]!
[Your email signature]

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Balancing Your Time

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Fear
Of
Missing
Out

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The Benefits of Embracing Breaks
• It’s part of our physiology
• Employees who take physical breaks every
90 minutes are far more productive
• Breaks should include both physical and mental
breaks—optimally, a break should provide both

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How to Unplug
• Increased connections make it harder to unplug
• Options include putting away devices
• This could also include turning off notifications
from social media/work-related activities
• Unplugging sets digital boundaries for our time

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Organizational FOMO
• Results in abandoned projects
• Rapid changes in direction
• The sense that there isn’t enough time,
manpower, or innovation
• Often described as “doing more with less”

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Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast

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Fixing Strategic FOMO
• Teach effective time management principles
• Set, track, and report goals
• Review goal results from across the organization
• Assess where to allocate resources
• Accurate information shifts the focus from the
unknown to the known, leading to confidence

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How to Do More

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Work is learning,
and learning is the work.
-KevinEikenberry

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Micro-Learning Benefits
• No cognitive overload
• Observation leads to learning and mastery
• Spaced intervals between videos lead to better
retention of the material learned
• Interleaving multiple styles increases learning
• Testing (forced recall) helps increase mastery

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