Time Management Handouts
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Keys to Time Management
A 3-level time management system
helps you stay on top of deadlines, time commitments, and tasks. Make
the most of your time this quarter with this guide to time management.
Creating
a Quarterly Calendar
Keep track of an entire quarter
of deadlines and tasks--at a glance. This tool will help you break your
large tasks into manageable pieces.
Creating
a Weekly Schedule
Do you know where you spend
your time? A weekly schedule will keep you focused on your academic goals--and
help you plan for rest and fun. Want to download and customize your weekly
schedule? Check out the Weekly
Schedule in Word.
Other Time
Management Resources
provided
by Seattle Pacific University 's Center for Learning
- Time Management
Priorities will help you prioritize the things you need and want
to accomplish during the quarter and allows you to calculate how much
time each activity requires per week.
- Quarterly
Assignment Schedule allows you to organize assignments due throughout
the quarter on a two-page tool arranged weekly. The tool shows you pending
assignments throughout the quarter.
- Weekly To Do List
is a tool for managing your tasks on weekly basis. Print this page and
use it as your weekly to-do list to keep all your various task lists
on one page.
Time Management
Links
Follow these links for great
time and task management resources. Each of these sites offers learning
resources appropriate for college-level learners. Please note that neither
SPU nor the Center for Learning is responsible for contents on the following
pages.
- How is your present time-management system
working for you?
For a few self-assessment exercises and strategies
for better time management skills, visit Muskingum College's Learning
Strategies Database. Be sure to scroll down to the bottom of this page!
http://muskingum.edu/~cal/database/general/time.html
University of Minnesota
provides an assignment calculator to help you manage your tasks. The Web
site gives you a step-by-step guide to completing your assignment, along
with study tips and relevant subject-related resources. Some services
linked to the assignment calculator (ie: library services) are only
for UM students, but there's still plenty of helpful and applicable
resources to be explored through this tool. This tool is most helpful
for writing and/or research assignments.
http://www.lib.umn.edu/help/calculator/
- The basics of time and task management
Found
at Dartmouth's Academic Skills Center site, this resource provides an online
video training on time management, along with a number of time management
tools, tips, and links to other study sites.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~acskills/success/time.html
- How much time is in your week?
This University of
St. Thomas-based site has some great tools for calculating your daily
and weekly time schedules.
http://www.studygs.net/schedule/
Seven conditions to help determine whether procrastination is a problem for you, six reasons why people procrastinate, and ten strategies for how to combat procrastination.
http://success.oregonstate.edu/procrastination.html
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