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Topic: Time Management

 Lesson: Managing Time (Required)Pre-TestPost-Test
1.You should carry your planner with you.
2.Before scheduling your work, you should list all your projects and their major steps.
3.Setting priorities is deciding the importance and urgency of each project.
4.A time inventory is a schedule of your future use of time.
5.Scheduling should start with the highest priority project.
6.Tasks that are important but not urgent can be set aside for now.
7.To screen information, you should read all incoming messages.
8.Rushing can actually slow you down.
9.A good technique for controlling interruptions is to ignore all phone messages.
10.Everyone’s peak productivity time is in the morning.
 Lesson: Putting First Things First (Required)Pre-TestPost-Test
1.Long-term goals are ones you plan to accomplish this week.
2.A personal mission statement outlines what you most want to do in your career and life.
3.When you rank your goals, you should keep a record in writing.
4.Too often, we focus on long-term goals and forget what we need to do today.
5.Long-term goals can be divided into short-term steps.
6.Your schedule should include time for working on your long-term goals.
7.A tiny amount of progress is better than no progress.
8.When you have more than one deadline to meet, you should always work on the closest one first.
9.Procrastination is the tendency to rush through a job.
10.For some people, urgency is addictive.
 Lesson: Juggling Many Priorities (Required)Pre-TestPost-Test
1.Scheduling should be high on your list of priorities.
2.Only managers should delegate tasks to others.
3.Because of faulty scheduling, people often let tasks interfere with one another.
4.You should make careful, written notes of project details.
5.Pareto’s Law suggests that much of our work time is not productive.
6.The best work is done by perfectionists.
7.The best way to handle problems you can’t control is to ask your supervisor for help.
8.Slowing down to relax can help you move faster.
9.If you’re feeling stressed at work, it’s your problem, so you should keep it to yourself.
10.When you’re under stress, you can help yourself by finding humor in the situation.
 Lesson: Overcoming Procrastination (Required)Pre-TestPost-Test
1.If you always procrastinate, you need to change your goals.
2.Procrastination sometimes comes from fear of failure.
3.Positive self-talk increases procrastination.
4.People typically procrastinate on small jobs rather than big ones.
5.A to-do list outlines goals for the week or month.
6.For procrastinators, routine tasks often take longer than necessary.
7.Socializing at work wastes time and should always be avoided.
8.Disorganization reinforces procrastination.
9.Planning ahead for breaks makes it easier to conquer procrastination.
10.With a big job, you shouldn’t reward yourself until you have completed every step.
 Lesson: Dealing with Information Overload (Optional)Pre-TestPost-Test
1.Information overload results from the flood of information that people today receive.
2.Good filing systems must be alphabetical.
3.A letter from customer Jane Clements should be filed under "J" for Jane.
4.Filing is most efficient when you collect a week’s worth of papers and then file them all at once.
5.You can mark special computer folders by changing their icons.
6.Most business letters, except important legal documents, can be discarded a year after the project’s completion.
7.Computer files should be saved on your hard drive until you get a new machine.
8.You should check your email at least once every half hour.
9.Email filters help you organize your email.
10.Stacks of papers and books help you keep important material handy.
 Lesson: Organizing Workspace and Tasks (Required)Pre-TestPost-Test
1.Organized people gather needed supplies ahead of time.
2.You need to set up an uninterrupted time to organize your workspace thoroughly.
3.Everyday supplies should be kept on top of a desk, not in the drawers.
4.Inactive files should be separated from active files.
5.Miscellaneous items can be piled together in a "junk drawer."
6.To avoid cluttering your desk space, you should keep few personal items on the desktop.
7.The same organizational techniques work for everyone.
8.A tickler system is used to make you giggle.
9.The best time to make a to-do list is in the evening before leaving work.
10.You should straighten your desk before leaving work.
 Lesson: Staying Organized (Required)Pre-TestPost-Test
1.Organizing your work and your workspace should be a high priority.
2.When you receive new materials, you should sort and label them as soon as you can.
3.You can assume that you will be the only person using your papers and files.
4.Charts and lists of new material can wait until you have more flexible time.
5.Distractions are always caused by other people.
6.Covering a calendar with sticky notes is a good way to remind yourself about important duties.
7.If you can’t organize a big project all at once, break it into smaller parts and do a little each day.
8.It is no sin to have empty shelf space.
9.Keep visitors out of your space until you know you are well organized.
10.Coworkers can help each other organize.
 Lesson: Finding More Time (Optional)Pre-TestPost-Test
1.You should never say "no" to your supervisor.
2.Doubling up on similar tasks can save valuable time.
3.Routines are useful at work if they allow you to do an ordinary task while devoting your mind to something else.
4.Routines are not useful if they become busy work.
5.Electronic shortcuts are usually more trouble than they are worth.
6.Using small bits of time productively can add up to large savings.
7.Most businesses lose a lot of time through excessive scheduling.
8.Miscommunication wastes large amounts of time.
9.You can never take too long to reach a decision.
10.If you need a deadline extension, it’s best to hold off asking until just before the due date.
 Lesson: Managing Projects (Required)Pre-TestPost-Test
1.Business projects always have clearly defined goals.
2.Big projects should be divided into smaller pieces.
3.A project plan should cover each separate part of the project.
4.Thinking "outside the box" is good at all stages of a project except the planning stage.
5.Each separate part of a project should have its own deadline.
6.One method of estimating time needed for a project is to try a small part of the work as a sample.
7.Beginning a project is the easiest part.
8.You should handle your part of a project yourself, without bothering coworkers for their help or opinions.
9.In a typical project, one review in the beginning and another at the end are enough.
10.You should keep your original goals, no matter what problems come up.
 Lesson: Prioritizing Personal and Work Life (Required)Pre-TestPost-Test
1.Business goals should be looked at separately from personal goals.
2.Lack of a good balance between home and work life can cause daily stress.
3.Sometimes it’s reasonable to maintain your commitment to a goal but cut back the time you spend on achieving it.
4.Business people tend to over-schedule their home lives.
5.You should avoid setting boundaries between your work and your home life.
6.Arranging a carpool is an example of offloading personal responsibilities.
7.When you are doing more than your share at home, you should say, "I quit," and let others figure out what to do about it.
8.Flextime means working fewer hours per week.
9.Many Americans get too little sleep.
10.Once you decide how to balance work and home life, you don’t need to feel guilty about your decision.
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