This is a 101 collection of classic time management tools. It helps you to become more productive or more relaxed (which in turn will make you more productive).
I wrote everything here with the needs of PhD students and postdocs in life science laboratories in mind. You may find it useful if you work in a different field, although you may find the biologists' humour hard to understand.
I hope the time you spend reading this ebook will be time well spent ;-)
- Quotes on Time
- Multitasking does not work
- Activity Log
- SMART Goals
- The Covey Matrix
- Five Options
- Ten Ways to say No
- Saving Time with Pomodoro
- Using a Kanban Board
- Gears of Work
- When the Time Fairy visits
- Tools mapped to problems
- Instructions for Trainers
- Preparations
- Warm-up exercises
- Managing tasks exercise
- Poster session
- Question & Answer Session
(c) 2015 Dr. Kristian Rother
Distributed under the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution Share-alike License 4.0
You are allowed to modify and share this material, or even use it in a commercial setting, given that you reference the author. So ideally you get rich, I get famous and everybody else gets their work done super-effectively, so that we can live happily ever after. :-)
The sources of this document, all images and material for exercises can be found on https://github.com/krother/time_management.
I would like to thank Jörn Manz for sparking my interest in Time Management, the PhD students Kasprzak J, Milanowska K, Musielak M, Philips A and Puton T for helping me field-test, Toastmasters International for many hours of practical expertise as a trainer and Wojciech Potrzebowski for the opportunity to present this content before a large audience.