Effective Time Management Strategies
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Test: Time management
1. Managing your time effectively means that you are able to:
a. Have more free time for your leisure
b. Being able to talk more time on the phone with your clients and suppliers
c. Prioritize your tasks depending on their importance, urgency and/or results.
d. Achieve an excellent level of well-being
2. Prioritize your tasks depending on the expected results:
a. Determine the order of your tasks based on the following criteria: Important and Urgent,
important and not urgent, urgent, not urgent, not important.
b. Eliminate unexpected visits in the morning
c. Know how to say no to the boss
d. Do above all what satisfies you
3. Realistically estimate the time needed to complete tasks in relation to their complexity.
a. Give as much time as necessary to each task until it turns out excellently and without
thinking about others.
b. Analyze time wasters (chronophages) and focus on what is truly important.
c. It is not necessary to measure our dedication to each task. The result is what matters.
d. The important thing is to satisfy the boss. Time is the least important thing.
4. The optimal level of work is achieved in the zone of the well-being curve:
a. b. It is the area of a few hours of daily work. When you foresee that you are going to get
tired, you leave it.
b. C2. It is the optimal level of work. It includes from five to eight hours of daily dedication.
The optimal point in most cases is between six and seven hours of daily work.
c. d. Around nine or ten hours of daily work, especially if it is intellectual
d. F. Maintain more than eleven hours of work for long periods as long as we are used to it.
5. To organize your own work and be able to meet established deadlines, it is necessary to
have some tools such as:
a. Ask the boss to tell us what tools I need to meet deadlines and organize my time well.
b. The Agenda (whether paper or electronic), written information, your own papers,
telephone, laptop, etc.
c. Nothing special is really necessary. Things come by themselves.
d. The boss's secretary is more than enough. She will handle our affairs.
6. Delegating responsibilities to the appropriate people to contribute to meeting common
deadlines involves a process such as:
a. No special process is necessary. People are intelligent and aware of what they do.
b. Decide on the matter to delegate: Select, inform, give authority and power necessary for
action and decision-making, establish control points, respect the right to error and be
recognized based on the results obtained.
c. Delegation is a serious problem for organizations. It is not advisable to put it into practice
because experience tells us that it does not work.
d. Delegation is a training process in repetitive tasks that must be permanently controlled by
an Intermediate Manager and a Quality Manager.
Foundation
General
University
Valladolid
-1- Leonardo da Vinci
UVa
fort i us
7. Personal organization has to do with:
a. Do not allow anyone to interfere in my personal work.
b. Organize a system for pursuing matters. Review of papers. Organization of personal
schedule. Plan (make a list of the tasks we most commonly perform and prioritize them).
Start with the first and not lose the decided process. .Delegate. All this with planning of at
least 50% of our time.
c. Negotiate with colleagues and colleagues how to approach our work.
d. Plan all the time without leaving loopholes for the unforeseen.
Good answers: 7b, 6b, 5b, 4b, 3b, 2nd, 1c
General University Valladolid Foundation
-2- Leonardo da Vinci
UVa
