Time management includes planning, multitasking, organizing and prioritizing. It is one of the influencing skills and it can be memorized using a simple acronym DOSES
Creative Time Management Habits Tips using a mnemonic 4D
Do : Do it immediately and close it
Delete: just delete it from your list
Delegate: let someone do that job, pay them or reassign the responsibility
Discount: if you've to do the job for 2 days, talk to the manager and get a discount to do it in a day and the rest let the manager assign to someone else.
Delay: sometime procrastination is good. just wait. just because you've time, don't do things that are not important at that moment.
Different Types of Time Management
Time management can broadly divided into 5 types:
1.Different times2.One after another
3.Simultaneously
4.Everytime (frequently)
5.Suddenly (unexpected)
Different times
We do various tasks at different times. for example, some of our chore time is household activities, office work, vacation, meeting friends and relative, spending time alone are some of the examples of different times. You can plan these activities in order to manage time.
Prioritizing time Chronologically, One after Another: Organizing is subset of planning. After you plan you organize these activities one after another to manage time effectively and efficiently.
For example, you can organize your regular household activities on a weekend. You say to yourself, " this Saturday, I would first go to supermarket, pick vegetables and fruits, and then go to apparel shop, buy shirts and sweaters, and finally, in the evening, I will meet my relative and come back home".
Doing All Tasks at a Time is Multitasking
A very simple example of multitasking is driving a car. While driving, you do so many things at a time, steer, apply clutch, changing gears, accelerate while steering and so on. Multitasking requires practice and focus.
Organizing time based on its frequency (every-time)
There are several tasks that differs in its frequency. Few everyday examples includes paying your electricity bills, mobile bills, renewing your license and insurance policies. Organize them in your to do list, prioritize them as per the expiry date to manage time.
Forecasting your Sudden Unexpected Tasks
Especially at workplace, an unforeseen task is quite common. These tasks are unexpected but sits in the priority list of the work schedule. Therefore, many business professionals are quite smart and they dedicate a buffer time to compensate the unanticipated task or forecast it proactively.
For example, a good manager always sets aside 2 extra days to deliver an office project so that last minute tasks, changes and corrections could be accommodated in this buffer time.
When you are conscious about how you spend your time, you can influence it, manage it and control it. This simple acronym DOSES can come handy if you'd like to recall some of the types of time management.
