2. Online Quiz e.g. Wikipedia Q1 What is the life expectancy for somebody in the UK, given he/she has reached the age of 20 today? Q2. How many days (or hours) does this equate to? Q3. How long (hours) is the maximum regular working week in Europe under the Working Time Regulations? (use Google) Q4. What do you think of the entry "Student Syndrome“ in Wikipedia? Q5 a) Who was the Greek God of time? b) Who was the Roman God of time?

3. Time pressures and consequences Stress Uncertainty Conflicting priorities Inconsistencies Lack of resources causes: fatigue irritation physical sickness mental sickness time off broken families death

5. What is time management? But what you can do is: Manage your activity as time passes. So what's it Time Management? It is a collection of techniques for self management You can choose to use to make conscious decisions about the activities that occupy your time .

6. Time management – a personal matter It's really about making personal choices that together make the best use of the time available. So: - time management is a personal matter. - part of self development - you need to find out what works for you. But best use of time depends on many things e.g. - the culture you have been brought up in - your belief system - your stage in life and motivation

7. Time Management Strategies 1. Be clear about your life goals 2. Prioritise tasks according to your goals 3. Work efficiently - get organised 4. Work smartly. Recognise and deal with time wasters 5. Avoid procrastination 6. Learn to say “No!” 7. Set a limit to the time you spend on each task. Don’t be a perfectionist.

8. Setting goals Look ahead to your retirement ceremony, (or even to your funeral). What characteristics or achievements would you hope people will mention? This should reveal exactly what matters most to you in your life. Based on: S. R. Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Restoring the Character Ethic, Simon and Schuster, 1989.

9. Overview – Christmas tree Life goals = tree trunk Key areas = branches Tasks = twigs Activities = pine needles Source: TMI

10. Prioritising tasks List the tasks that need doing Assign priorities e.g. A, B, C Review and adjust the task list regularly Tool: Pareto analysis Identify the 20% of tasks that have 80% benefit.

11. Prioritising tasks Tool: Urgent Important Not urgent Unimportant

12. Prioritising tasks Tool: Urgent Important Not urgent Unimportant ? Do last i.e. never Do immediately ?

13. Prioritising tasks Tool: Urgent Important Not urgent Unimportant Set date to do later Discard Do immediately Delegate

14. Working efficiently Choose an organiser system - paper or laptop or PDA Number files in the same way as your goals Organise your work area Log the time you spend on activities (and interruptions) Recognise the time of day when you are most effective and do the difficult tasks then. If you don't want to do it, it's probably important

15. xxx Example of Paper-based organiser

20. Tackling large tasks – bit by bit .

21. Time Management Strategies Summary 1. Set goals 2. Prioritise tasks according to your goals 3. Work efficiently - get organised 4. Work smartly. Recognise and deal with time wasters 5. Avoid procrastination 6. Learn to say “No!” 7. Set a limit to the time you spend on each task. Don’t be a perfectionist.

22. Randy Pausch Video http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5784740380335567758# Start at min 17 or at min 28 http://www.alice.org/Randy/timetalk.htm Look him up in Wikipedia Professor of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and Design Co-Director, Entertainment Technology Center Carnegie Mellon University