Time Management Flashcards
Peter Drucker
Effective leaders know where their time goes. they work systematically at managing he little of their time that they should be brought under their control
Steven Covey
Organize and execute around priorities.
What does P and P/C stand for in the following formula?
Maintaing P/PC Balance
P=Production, or the desired results
P/C=Production capability or the ability or asset that produces
What two elements is effectiveness a function of?
What is produced
The producing asset
One cannot exist without the other
Steven Covey’s Personal Management Matrix
I. Urgent and Important
Crisis
Pressing Needs
Deadline-driven project
SC’s PMM
II. Not Urgent and Important
Prevention, PC Activities
Relationship building
Recognizing new opportunities
Planning, Recreation
SC’s PMM
III. Urgent and Not important
Interruptions, some calls
some mail, some reports
some meetings, pressing matters
popular activities
SC’s PMM
IV. Not urgent and Not important
Trivia, busy work some mail some phone calls time wasters pleasant activities
What happens when people spend 90% of their time in Q1?
Stress
Burnout
Crisis management
always putting out fires
What happens when people spend 90% of their time in Q3?
short term focus crisis management reputation - chameleon character see goals and plans as worthless feel victimized, out of control shallow or broken relationships
Q3, Q4
total irresponsibility
fired from jobs
dependent on others or institutions for basics
Q2
vision, perspective
balance,discipline
control, few crisis
(or more manageable challenges)
What quadrants should we stay out of?
Q3, and Q4
