Working Well

Good time management is essential if you are to handle a heavy workload without excessive stress. By using time management skills effectively, you can reduce work stress by being more in control of your time and by being more productive. This ensures that you have time to relax outside work.

The central shift of attitude within time management is to concentrate on results, not on activity. To this end, it embraces a range of skills that help you to:

- Assess the value of your time, understand how effectively you are using it and improve your time use habits;
- Focus on your priorities so that you focus on the most important jobs to do, delegate tasks where possible and drop low value jobs;
- Manage and avoid distractions; and
- Create more time

Time management helps you to reduce long-term stress by giving you direction when you have too much work to do. It puts you in control of where you are going and helps you to increase your productivity. By being efficient in your use of time, you should enjoy your current role more and you should find that you are able to find the time to relax outside work and enjoy life.

Reference

Stress Management from Mind Tools