Essential Time Management and Organisation: A Pocket Guide

By Sarah Cook

Essential Time Management and Organisation will help you transform the way you work and regain control of your working day. This clear and concise guide offers tried and tested techniques for organising your time and achieving your goals.

• Language: English
• Publisher: itgovernance
• Release date: Oct 20, 2011
• ISBN: 9781849283045

Sarah Cook

Sarah Cook is the Managing Director of the Stairway Consultancy Ltd. She has over 20 years’ consulting experience specialising in team building, leadership and change. Prior to this, Sarah worked for Unilever and as Head of Customer Care for a retail marketing consultancy. As well as having practical experience of helping to create high-performing teams across the globe, Sarah is a business author and has written widely on the topic of team building, leadership, management development and coaching. She also speaks regularly at conferences and seminars on these topics. Sarah is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and a Chartered Marketeer. She has an MA from Cambridge University and an MBA. Sarah is an accredited user of a wide range of psychometric and team diagnostic tools. She may be contacted via [e-mail].

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Essential

Time Management

and Organisation

Essential

Time Management

and Organisation

A Pocket Guide

SARAH COOK

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© Sarah Cook 2011

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Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be

identified as the author of this work.

First published in the United Kingdom in 2011

by IT Governance Publishing.

ISBN: 978-1-84928-304-5

PREFACE

In today’s business environment, there is increasing pressure on managers to do more with less. Technology has empowered people in the working environment, yet it has also increased expectations of speed of response and delivery. There is increasing pressure, therefore, for people to be more organised, and to plan and use their time effectively.

The book is a practical tool intended to help you develop your time management and organisational skills. It outlines the principles of effective time management and discusses how business professionals can develop these skills. It provides tools and techniques as well as self-assessment questionnaires and exercises that you can use to enhance your effectiveness at work.

Essential time management and organisation requires discipline and

Reviews for Essential Time Management and Organisation

[賴彥君 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It's simple but very helpful, with clear ideas and experienced practical procedure to follow. Start with this book, I recommended, satisfied then you can stop unmeaningful chasing, if not, then find the next that suits you.