Not many people know that over the last year or so I’ve been growing in my “mad time management skillz”. I recently did a portion of one of the courses I co-developed with Marc as a free seminar here in St. Stephen.
Here’s the audio.
Here’s the Powerpoint.
The audience for this was non-computer users here in the community I’m part of. It’s a Christian community, so there are some Christianese references (my apologies to people who are offended by that). It’s also fairly laid back, lots of inside jokes, etc, etc, etc.
The seminar is nearly an hour and a half, the audio is a touch loud, so turn it down.
Just thought this might help folk who struggle with this, as well as giving a peek into some projects to come in the time management space 
Edit:
Here are some topics that are covered in this seminar:
- what time management is
- the phases of time management (as we do it)
- keys to success
- collection points
- effective organization techniques
- how to process ’stuff’ (including email, though it isn’t mentioned specifically)
- all about next actions
- how to review
- an example day
September 18th, 2005 at 8:34 pm
I was the guy who said “yes” for cooking for dummies. Was that down the hall?
September 19th, 2005 at 7:24 am
This is very well written Does not at all makes me feel that I have not attended the seminar. Great work mate. Keep it up.
September 20th, 2005 at 4:50 am
Excellent and timely. I am soo in need of figuring out a time management schma that i can work through, and this seems to be a great first step. My first Next Action is to read GTD and RFA.
September 21st, 2005 at 7:51 pm
Jeremy,
You captured a lot of the key elements regarding time management and very well I might add. A couple of crumbs for thought;
First, it’s more than just time management. I prefer to call is personal system effectiveness. You manage data, people ( even if you are not a manager, like reducing interruptions) , resources and time.
Second, there are a lot of gurus out there preaching this stuff ( Allen, Covey, Blanchard et al), and America is the biggest purchaser of self help programs per capita in the world…so why aren’t we all effective. Answer; For the same reason we have cobwebs on our home exercise equipment. Many of us need assessment of our exisiting environments, acknowledgment of our own behavior and most importantly, coaching.
So if you are really serious in changing your behavior, find a coach that will make sure that you do your productivty push-ups.
September 23rd, 2005 at 3:13 am
I cannot access the links anymore. Is the presentation still online?
September 23rd, 2005 at 8:29 am
Tejas,
Sorry, it works again.
September 23rd, 2005 at 10:06 pm
There is one too many “http” in the links
September 23rd, 2005 at 11:25 pm
Grr, now it’s fixed!
September 24th, 2005 at 1:34 pm
Wow, great job. I needed a GTD refresher & this did it for me. Very nice presentation.