Time Management & PEP

PEP helps organisations achieve greater productivity, and immense time management and cost savings. Many professionals have no idea how to organise themselves or how to best process their work. Not only have they never been educated in the nuts and bolts of working in an office environment, they haven't been shown how to deal with the ambiguity and complexity of the modern working environment.

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Time Management Hints & Tips

Here are some interesting time management hints & tips from our own consultants, gleaned from working with their thousands of people who have been pepped. If you find them useful suggest to your colleagues that they visit our site for themselves.

Time Management in the office

Office workers and their managers complain that

they have too much to do
their working hours increase
they still can't catch up

These problems are serious but they can be overcome.

Because we haven't been formally trained to deal with these matters systematically, we learn on the job. We pick up some things by trial and error; we see colleagues who cope well enough, so we try to use their ideas, and sometimes we get lucky - but not always.

Time Management Articles

Here are some interesting time management articles. Please feel free to download them and try them out.

Become More Efficient and Effective (168Kb) - January 2012
Dealing with information overload, and how to assess, store and retrieve information, is a problem that confronts just about anyone in management. To deal with the amount of information that is being thrown at Managers, particularly through email, requires the adoption of a number of principles.
Top Time Management Resolutions for 2012 (82Kb) - Bary Sherman; December 2011
Our work, where we spend so much time, is a place often overlooked in the tradition of New Year’s Resolutions. It’s that time to resolve to start to work smarter-not harder, to get more of the right things done in less time, and to do all this with less stress from wherever you are.
Time Management & Outlook Calendar Do's and Don'ts (90Kb)
Suggestions from Bruce White about simple Do's and Don't
Have you ever heard someone say, “We are meeting at 3:30 today? I never saw the meeting request!"? Whether you schedule or attend a meeting, you can help it run smoothly and on time with the following meeting request do’s and don’ts when dealing with Calendar and Meeting Appointments within Outlook .
Time Management & Survival of the Smartest (588Kb) - March 2009
More with Less in a time of unprecedented upheavals? Doing more with the same / the same with less
Seven Time Wasters and how to evict them (172Kb) - David Parmenter, Management, March 2006
Ensnared by time-wasting traps, managers can fast get bogged down in repetitive tasks and irrelevant details. Enlightened organisations around the world are forging pathways for change. David Parmenter shares seven practical ways to clear the calendar and reclaim the day.

Are you?

slowly drowning in a sea of paper/email
constantly reacting, fire-fighting, or being overwhelmed by deadlines
unable to decide where to put all the memos correspondence and mail which comes across their desk

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PEP Blog Time Management

Prioritise your work based on importance

Today I'm going to talk to you about overcoming reactivity, and the way to do that is in fact to … [read more]

Time Management Tips

PEPworldwide’s 2012 TOP 16 TIME MANAGEMENT RESOLUTIONS are:

1. Do not multi task – you will waste time and get less accomplished.
2. No scroll bar in the email “In-Box” at the end of the day.
3. Don’t leave people “hanging” – respond with updates even if firm dates can’t be set.
4. Get your mental and physical space organized to save time and improve focus.
5. Schedule time on your electronic calendar to do your own work and projects.
6. Turn off the visual and audio email alerts on your computer.
7. Process your email on a schedule rather than “surfing” your Inbox.
8. Schedule time, before you leave, to handle backlogs when you return from vacation.
9. Do the “Worst Things First” and reduce procrastination.
10. Treat your Calendar like a map and check often what is coming up ahead.
11. Populate your calendar with every predictable event that will take your time.
12. Use “Instant Messaging” only when you need an instant reply.
13. Put the “big rocks” in your calendar first, fit in other things as you can.
14. Silence your cell mobile device when in meetings.
15. Set your PIM to open to calendar first, not email, to see what your day is like.
16. Learn a new way of using electronic tools such as OneNote and SharePoint.