Strategies and Skills for Effective Time Management Report

This report delves into the crucial topic of time management, specifically focusing on strategies and skills applicable to higher education students. It begins by highlighting the importance of effective time management, emphasizing its role in achieving goals and objectives through planning, goal setting, and prioritization. The report evaluates the effectiveness of various time management techniques, such as setting deadlines, delegating responsibilities, and prioritizing activities. It justifies the significance of effective planning, delegation, and prioritizing activities, while also discussing approaches like scheduling, avoiding procrastination, minimizing interruptions, multi-tasking, and maximizing efficiency. The conclusion summarizes the key findings, reiterating the importance of time management and providing actionable suggestions for students to enhance their productivity and academic success. The report references several academic sources to support its claims and recommendations.

STUDY SKILLS FOR
HIGHER EDUCATION

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
1. Evaluation...............................................................................................................................1
2. Justification.............................................................................................................................2
3. Other suggestions....................................................................................................................2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
The below essay explores the importance of Time management. The report makes use of
a variety of strategies used in managing time properly. Also, the report understands and evaluates
these strategies on their effectiveness. Along with it, a variety of time management skills are
showcased that can help an individual with effective time management (Kanki, 2019). At last,
the required conclusions are made.
1. Evaluation
Time management is important in order to manage time effectively in order to achieve
required goals and objectives. The essay explains time management helps an individual in
effective planning, setting goals and objectives, setting deadlines, delegation of responsibilities,
prioritising activities as per their importance, and spending the right time on the right activity.
These suggestions ensure proper time management. Effective planning ensures an individual to
plan a proper schedule and work accordingly (Harford, Stanfield and Zhang, 2019). This reduces
the stress of what needs to be done or what not. Also, effective planning makes it easy for an
individual to make use of time efficiently.
Setting goals and objectives allows an individual to set desired objectives and goals as
per the needs. This makes it easy for the individual to manage time in as he/she is focused on the
achievements of set objectives. Setting deadlines is another important suggestion showcased in
the essay as setting proper deadlines for the achievements of the tasks provides an understanding
of at what time the tasks needs to be completed. This helps to manage time properly and ensure
achievement of goals and objectives.
Delegation of responsibilities is another important suggestion that suggests that
responsibilities needs to be properly delegated (Samson, Donnet and Daft, 2018). This ensures
that time is properly being managed by the individuals because the set responsibilities are as per
their skills and knowledge and helps them to manage time effectively. Prioritising activities
ensures that the activities are prioritised as per their importances and are being completed at first.
This ensures effective time management and reduction of confusion and errors. At last, spending
the right time on the right activity ensures that proper time is being spent on the activity which is
being done. This reduces the wastage of time and ensures no extra time is being spent on a single
activity.
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2. Justification
Effective planning, delegation of responsibilities, spending time on the right activity, and
prioritising activities as per their importances are the suggestions which plays a major role in
effective time management. These skills ensure that proper time management by making use of
effective methods. Effective planning reduces extra work and distractions and allow one to
manage time perfectly. Delegation of responsibilities allows proper delegation as per the set
skills, knowledge and awareness of an individual. Spending time on the right activity ensures
that none of the time is being wasted and the activity is getting proper attention. At last, the best
approach in effective time management is prioritising activities as per their importances. This
makes sure that important activities are being done first.
Although, setting goals and objectives is not a proper approach in effective time
management. Setting goals and objectives only ensures that there is a certain achievement for an
individual (Won and Shirley, 2018). Proper time management is not possible just by setting
objectives and goals. Also, setting deadlines does not allow proper time management. Deadlines
only provides one with the idea on in what time the task needs to be completed.
In the position of a marketing manager in order to manage time effectively effective
planning is seen as an important strategy. Other important suggestions that can be made use of
includes delegation of responsibilities which ensures the team is going to be assigned with right
tasks and responsibilities which in turn is going to help team to complete tasks fast and
effectively. Along with it, prioritising the activities is another approach that can help the team
and an individual to achieve to the set tasks and goals properly. Prioritising allows an individual
to understand the importance of the tasks and helps them to achieve as per the set needs and
requirements (Wang, Ning and Wang, 2018).
3. Other suggestions
In order to manage time effectively, it is important for an individual to schedule the tasks.
Scheduling is going to allow an individual to understand the needs and requirements of his/her
own by properly managing tasks step by step. The approach of scheduling is very easy. The
individual has to understand what are his/her goals and requirements first. Later, the as per the
needs and requirements the action plan is produced and that action plan is also known as one's
schedule. One needs to stop procrastinating in order to manage time properly (Bennett and
Burke, 2018). Procrastination makes it hard to achieve any of the tasks and makes it difficult for
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an individual to save the time. Instead of saving time procrastinating wastes precious time.
Avoiding procrastination is going to make it easy to manage time and time savings as well.
Minimizing interruptions is another important suggestion in managing time properly.
Interruptions always makes it difficult for an individual to save time and reduces inefficiency
while achieving goals and tasks. The interruptions are the only reason that makes it difficult for
an individual to focus on the task. Avoiding and minimizing interruptions would make it easy for
an individual to focus and manage time effectively.
Other approach is multi tasking, multi tasking allows an individual to complete a number
of tasks at a single time. Completing more than one tasks makes it possible for the individual to
made his/her time properly without being stuck on a single task for a long period (Yu, Jiang and
Zou, 2018).
At last, maximising efficiency can help an individual to achieve proper time management
by increasing his/her efficiency while working. In order to increase the efficiency one needs to
learn required skills. These set of skills will help one to develop good efficiency while working
and would make its easy for an individual to achieve desired goals and objectives in required
time.
The above mentioned suggestions can help an individual in order to manage time
properly.
CONCLUSION
The above report showcases the importance of time management. The report evaluates
the suggestions made on time management and in what ways these suggestions helps an
individual to manage his/her time efficiently. Various justification are made as in order to
understand the value of the given topic. At last, after the evaluations and justification, required
suggestions are made to manage time effectively.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Bennett, A. and Burke, P.J., 2018. Re/conceptualising time and temporality: an exploration of
time in higher education. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education. 39(6),
pp.913-925.
Harford, J., Stanfield, J. and Zhang, F., 2019. Do insiders time management buyouts and
freezeouts to buy undervalued targets?. Journal of Financial Economics. 131(1). pp.206-
231.
Kanki, B.G., 2019. Communication and crew resource management. In Crew resource
management (pp. 103-137). Academic Press.
Samson, D., Donnet, T. and Daft, R., 2018. Fundamentals of Management [6th Asia-Pacific
Edition]. Cengage.
Wang, X., Ning, Z. and Wang, L., 2018. Offloading in Internet of vehicles: A fog-enabled real-
time traffic management system. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 14(10),
pp.4568-4578.
Won, S. and Shirley, L.Y., 2018. Relations of perceived parental autonomy support and control
with adolescents' academic time management and procrastination. Learning and Individual
Differences. 61. pp.205-215.
Yu, L., Jiang, T. and Zou, Y., 2018. Distributed real-time energy management in data center
microgrids. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid. 9(4). pp.3748-3762.
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