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Achieving Results through Time Management

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All managers need to have an organized approach to work if they are to be effective. Achieving Results through Time Management is a straightforward guide to planning a productive working system designed to eliminate the main areas of time wastage. Philip Atkinson also deals with problems of stress, procrastination and career planning.

It will particularly benefit the executive under pressure and all who want to improve work performance.

Philip Atkinson's guide to the effective use of working time is designed for the manager or self starter who wants to excel and develop the new skills of the effective executive. Achieving results through Time Management is more than an introduction to time management, however, it is a compendium of information which staff at all levels will find of interest and value.

Highlighting both the key activities of managerial and administrative work, the text examines time management problems in many different ways. The emphasis is on isolating the key areas of time wastage, planning a more effective working day and on actually putting the plan into action.

Contents include:

  • Chapters      on planning, problem solving, procrastination and assertiveness useful for staff members who find that there is not enough time in the day to achieve their key results.
  • Career and stress management to help the anyone who is constantly subject to changes in objectives, to think clearly and work under the pressure of constant innovation.
  • Problem solving, reading and writing skills, meetings, management and delegation are covered.
  • Overall, the book provides  a wealth of information which can be used to improve their performance.



'The book is clearly written, easy to read, and in the right hands could prove a useful guide to beating Parkinson's law that "work expands to fill the time available for its completion".' - Accountancy Age.




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