Eisenhower’s Urgent/Important Principle
President Eisenhower's Urgent/Important Principle identifies which tasks and activities you should focus on and which you should delegate or ignore.
Time Management
Time management problems are one of the main reasons why many of us struggle to finish our tasks within a normal working day. Take back control with this range of useful models, tips and techniques designed to help you manage your time, workload, energy and focus.
Managing Electronic Files
Save time and work more efficiently by managing and organizing your electronic files and documents more effectively.
To-Do Lists
Learn how to use a Prioritized To-Do List to manage tasks effectively. Our free template will help you get everything done, in the right order.
Making the Most of Timeboxing
Marc Zao-Sanders is an expert in timeboxing. In this video, he outlines its basic principles, its usefulness, and how to effectively utilize it into your routines.
How to Handle Workload Peaks
The ability to manage a heavy workload is an essential skill in today’s workplace. Here we suggest some ways to maintain your effectiveness when things get busy.
Time Smart
Author Ashley Whillans talks to Mind Tools about her strategies for improving our "time affluence" by beating time traps, reframing time, and more.
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Life Priorities: A Time Management Exercise
Use this exercise to reassess your time priorities so that you can work towards the optimum balance between work and personal priorities.
Preparing to Go on Annual Leave
These top tips will help you to feel organised in the run up to, during and on your return from annual leave. Much of the advice in this article is equally applicable to extended periods of leave, such as maternity, paternity and adoption leave, or a sabbatical.
Top Tips for Staying Focused
If you have trouble concentrating in a world of distractions, these tips will help you to shut out the world and focus.
Time Management Mistakes
Watch this video to discover several common time management mistakes and how to avoid them.
Top Tips for Tackling Your Long Hours Culture
Regularly working long hours increases the risk of stress-related illness and poor health. Learning how to keep your workload under control will help you maintain a healthy work-life balance, and will ultimately improve your effectiveness at work. If you are concerned that you are working long hours, use some of our top tips to deal with the problem before it deteriorates.
Ten Tips for To-Do Lists
To-do lists are a popular way of getting organised. Based on the work of productivity expert David Allen, here are ten tips to help you get the most from your to-do list.