Time Management Deck

Question 1

You want Straight A’s? Those Straight A’s start with Time Management. What are the 3 Straight A’s of Time Management? (Dierdoff)

Answer 1

Awareness, Arrangement, and Adaptation

Question 2

What’s Dierdorff’s analysis of his article’s time management study?

Answer 2

Dierdoff analyzed a study of more than 1,200 individuals, less than 1% of people self rating overlaps with their time management abilities.

Question 3

Define Awareness in Time Management (Dierdoff)

Answer 3

Thinking realistically about your time by understanding it is a limited resource

Question 4

Define Arrangement in Time Management (Dierdoff)

Answer 4

Designing and organizing your goals, plans, schedules, and tasks to effectively use time

Question 5

Define Adaptation in time management (Dierdoff)

Answer 5

• Monitoring your use of time while performing activities

- Adjusting to interruptions or changing priorities

Question 6

Which feedback avenues can help accurate self-awareness of your time management skills? (Dierdoff)

Answer 6

• Microsimulations
• bosses and peers
• Establishing a baseline for behaviors against which gauge improvements

Question 7

Does your personality matter in time management? (Dierdoff)

Answer 7

No, it doesn’t. What matters are skills. They are the greatest return on investment of time management not personality.

Question 8

How do you prioritize the time management skill you need to improve? (Dierdoff)

Answer 8

By focusing on developing the most pressing skill need first.

Question 9

In time management, What is the difference between effectiveness and efficiency? (Dierdoff)

Answer 9

• Effectiveness is about doing things well

- Effectiveness is about doing things fast

Question 10

What is TM?

Answer 10

Time Management

Question 11

TM Awareness Skills: how do you find your peak performance time?

Answer 11

Break over your day into 3 to 4 timeslots over a week. Take note of the ones in with your most productive

Question 12

TM Awareness Skills: You should Treat your time like money. how do you do that?

Answer 12

Create a time that budgets how you spend that in a week.

Question 13

TM: what is timing up?

Answer 13

Record how long you’ve spent on tasks instead of how much time you have left

Question 14

TM Awareness Skills: How do you realistically evaluate how you assess time?

Answer 14

After finishing a project evaluate how long it actually took vs how long it you thought.

Question 15

TM Awareness Skills: When should think about the sunk cost fallacy?

Answer 15

Think about this when you’re spending too much time on something. This is since it might be outweighing the benefit of even doing it.

Question 16

TM Arrangement Skills: What plans should be prioritized?

Answer 16

Activities and obligations

Question 17

TM Arrangement Skills: How do you avoid the Mere Urgency Effect?

Answer 17

Understanding that not all tasks are both urgent and important.

Question 18

TM Arrangement Skills: What is an important task?

Answer 18

Important tasks have significant and long term consequences.

Question 19

TM Arrangement Skills: What is an urgent task?

Answer 19

A task that needs to be completed immediately

Question 20

TM Arrangement Skill: What should you use to time manage?

Answer 20

Use a calendar app, put things down as they arise.

Question 21

TM Arrangement Skill: How does one Schedule Protected time?

Answer 21

• Make calendar appointments for your most important project moments
• Plan the specificities needed to purely focus on one task during a time block (I.E. muting phone, taking dog on walk before hand)

Question 22

TM Arrangement Skills: How do you reduce underestimation errors?

Answer 22

Ask a neutral party for feedback on your plans.

Question 23

TM Arrangement Skills: When struggling to attain a goal that seems too difficult, what can you do?

Answer 23

Set a much less difficult version of that goal

Question 24

TM Adaptation Skills: What is Habit Staking

Answer 24

Tie your time management behaviors to habits you already exhibit

Question 25

TM Adaptation Skill: What are Short Burst Efforts?

Answer 25

Doing things in series of 15-30 minutes

Question 26

TM Adaptation Skill: What is a good reminder?

Answer 26

Reminders that give detailed explanations of their tasks.

Question 27

TM Adaptation Skill: What is the is a contingency plan?

Answer 27

A plan for the best and worst case scenario of your plans

Question 28

TM Adaptation Skill: How can you reduce time wasters?

Answer 28

Create Do not disturb slots of time where you block social media