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    Round Up: Time Management

    by Meghan Kowalski on 2024-09-25T08:00:00-04:00 | 0 Comments

    Effective time management is essential for academic success and personal growth, but this skill can be a challenge for students and professionals alike. We understand the importance of developing strong organizational skills to balance coursework, research, and other commitments. In this round up, we've gathered a comprehensive set of resources that will help you take control of your schedule, boost productivity, and reduce stress. Whether you're a seasoned planner or just starting to explore time management strategies, these resources are designed to support your journey to better manage your time.

     

    Library Resources

    • Learning Express - This online learning platform provides a comprehensive selection of academic and career-related resources including college success skills, career and workplace preparation, basic computer skills, and more. They even have material specific to learning time management techniques.
    • LinkedIn Learning - This online video training library that provides you with the opportunity to bridge the gap between the career you want and the skills you need. Learn online at your own pace, with their library of more than 16,000 creative, business, and technology courses and more than 200,000 videos on topics ranging from time management to reading skills to how to write an academic paper. There are tons of videos related to time management and productivity.
    • Student Success Center - The UDC office dedicated to helping you succeed while you're a Firebird!

     

    Some Books

    Cover ArtTime Management (the Brian Tracy Success Library) by Brian Tracy

    It's a simple equation: the better you use your time, the more you will accomplish and the greater you will succeed. Imagine what you could accomplish with two more productive hours every single day. In this indispensable, pocket-sized guide, business author and success expert Brian Tracy reveals 21 proven time management techniques you can use immediately to gain two or more productive hours every day. Tracy also identifies and shares the strategies he's learned himself has identified as the most effective for readers having trouble fitting everything the day brings them inside a 24-hour window. In Time Management, you will learn how to: Handle endless interruptions, meetings, emails, and phone calls Identify your key result areas Allocate enough time for top priority responsibilities Batch similar tasks to preserve focus and make the most of each minute Overcome procrastination Determine what to delegate and what to eliminate Utilize Program Evaluation and Review Techniques to work backward from the future, and more! Filled with Tracy's trademark wisdom, Time Management is an invaluable, time-creating resource that will help you get more done in less time and with much less stress.

     

    Cover ArtFour Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman

    The average human lifespan is absurdly, insultingly brief. Assuming you live to be eighty, you have just over four thousand weeks. Nobody needs telling there isn't enough time. We're obsessed with our lengthening to-do lists, our overfilled inboxes, work-life balance, and the ceaseless battle against distraction; and we're deluged with advice on becoming more productive and efficient, and "life hacks" to optimize our days. But such techniques often end up making things worse. The sense of anxious hurry grows more intense, and still the most meaningful parts of life seem to lie just beyond the horizon. Still, we rarely make the connection between our daily struggles with time and the ultimate time management problem: the challenge of how best to use our four thousand weeks. Drawing on the insights of both ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual teachers, Oliver Burkeman delivers an entertaining, humorous, practical, and ultimately profound guide to time and time management. Rejecting the futile modern fixation on "getting everything done," Four Thousand Weeks introduces readers to tools for constructing a meaningful life by embracing finitude, showing how many of the unhelpful ways we've come to think about time aren't inescapable, unchanging truths, but choices we've made as individuals and as a society--and that we could do things differently.

     

    Cover ArtManage Your Time and Your Life in 20 Minutes a Day by Miriam Salpeter

    In order to success in the working world, you need a set of soft skills that let people know you are professional, competent, and will be an asset they would be proud to welcome to their team. These new books, part of LearningExpress's successful 20 Minutes a Day series, tackle in-depth the soft skills all employers look for in the highly competitive job landscape. Write & Speak Like a Professional in 20 Minutes a Day gives lessons on how to present yourself clearly and with confidence in writing and in speech, from job application to day-to-day work tasks. Inside, you will find instruction on: - Cover letters and resumes- Job interviews- The first day on the job- Meetings and memos- Email- And much more Manage Your Time & Your Life in 20 Minutes a Day will tackle day-to-day organization tips to make your life as clutter-free and structured as possible. Lessons inside will include: - How to plan a job search- How to ideally begin and end each work day- How to prioritize- How to prepare for meetings and presentations- How to avoid procrastination- And much more
     

    Podcasts

     

    Tools

    • Toggl - A time tracker to help you learn about how you use your time
    • Trello - A visual project management system that can help you organize your work
    • RescueTime - A tool that tracks your activity to help you identify how you use your time.
    • Pomofocus - An online timer to help you focus using the Pomodoro technique

     

    A Little More Reading

     

    What's your favorite time management tip or tool?


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