Time Management and Effectiveness

5 - Effective planning / Not fogetting stuff / Avoid overthinking

15.11.2021


Slides:


Highlights from slides:

  • plan to avoid "firefighting"
  • spent more time planning for complex tasks 
  • plan up to 60 % of time capacity, leave rest to time buffer and things you can't really control
  • get inspired from process/project management
  • "eat a frog" technique = one high-impact task a day
  • think about stuff that eats away your time and distract you
  • why our brain forgets stuff?
  • to-do lists & to-do apps - use them! And try couple of them to find out which one that suits you
  • meditation & similar techniques might help you to fight anxiety and related overthinking
  • six thinking hats technique



Student presentation

  • Šárka Zbožínková: Effective meetings



Homework assignment

Make a list of distractors / things that make you loose time and suggest a coping strategy for it (check slides to see an example). 


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