Managing yourself in time

Time management test

To complete this task and reflect on your time management skills, you should first define your professional duties. Reach for the job requirements, job description, or competence matrix that should be available for your position.

How to do such a test for yourself?

Step 1:
Create a list and a table

Define your professional duties in the form of a list. Create a simple table where you will record the hours you spend on performing tasks from different scopes in a given week.

Step 2:
Check how many hours each thing takes you

During the work week, record the hours you spend on performing tasks from various scopes.

Step 3:
Reflection

At the end of the week, look at the table.

  • Did you run out of time to perform the main tasks? ?
  • If so, what are the reasons why this happened?
  • What activities did you ultimately devote yourself to?
  • Perhaps you spent too much time procrastinating on tasks?

Go to your manager with the conclusions and consider together whether/what tasks you can delegate from the “additional” category in order to have more time to perform the main/mandatory tasks.

Number of hours [h] Mon. Tue. Wed. Thu. Fri. sum
Mandatory tasks
Additional tasks
Procrastination (delaying)

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