Comments for Skye Associates http://skyeassociates.net International Leadership Development Consultancy Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:45:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Knowing vs. Doing by Practice Makes Perfect… Even When You Can Already Do Something! http://skyeassociates.net/2012/01/knowing-vs-doing/#comment-67 Practice Makes Perfect… Even When You Can Already Do Something! Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:45:04 +0000 http://skyeassociates.net/beta/?p=102#comment-67 [...] a previous post I talked about the knowing vs doing gap and gave an example that occurs each time in our coaching program.  Here I want to explore [...] [...] a previous post I talked about the knowing vs doing gap and gave an example that occurs each time in our coaching program.  Here I want to explore [...]

]]> Comment on Time Spent vs. Time WELL Spent by Jesse Jacoby http://skyeassociates.net/2012/02/time-spent-vs-time-well-spent-2/#comment-60 Jesse Jacoby Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:20:50 +0000 http://skyeassociates.net/?p=1006#comment-60 Morag, nice post. I agree that the time term "time management" is a bit of a misnomer, in that you cannot technically manage time. However, you can manage how you deploy yourself against the available time in a day. In addition to your very good suggestions, there is a helpful rule of thumb that I follow: if a task takes less than 5-10 minutes, I do it right away. If will take longer than that, I quickly schedule it into a later timeslot (which I diligently manage using Outlook and iPhone). One other thing that I sometimes do is deactivate Outlook's e-mail "desktop alert" so as not to be distracted (simply click on the Outlook icon in the system tray to change this setting). -Jesse Jacoby Managing Director Emergent LLC www.EmergentConsultants.com blog.EmergentConsultants.com www.ChangeAccelerator.com Morag, nice post.

I agree that the time term “time management” is a bit of a misnomer, in that you cannot technically manage time. However, you can manage how you deploy yourself against the available time in a day.

In addition to your very good suggestions, there is a helpful rule of thumb that I follow: if a task takes less than 5-10 minutes, I do it right away. If will take longer than that, I quickly schedule it into a later timeslot (which I diligently manage using Outlook and iPhone).

One other thing that I sometimes do is deactivate Outlook’s e-mail “desktop alert” so as not to be distracted (simply click on the Outlook icon in the system tray to change this setting).

-Jesse Jacoby
Managing Director
Emergent LLC
http://www.EmergentConsultants.com
blog.EmergentConsultants.com
http://www.ChangeAccelerator.com

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