Organizing for Success: More than 100 tips, tools, ideas, and strategies for organizing and prioritizing work - Softcover

Zeigler,Kenneth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 007145778X ISBN 13: 9780071457781

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2005

Synopsis

You will save up to two hours per day with new and innovative tips, tools, and strategies from a top time-management trainer

Organizing for Success provides you with a new approach to handle all the demands that bombard you both at work and at home. It shows you how to develop fundamental skills such as:

• How to set the right goals
• How to use the "veggie" principle to accomplish priorities on deadline
• How to manage time effectively using anything from a simple pad of paper to the latest electronic gadget

Author Ken Zeigler has personally trained thousands of professionals, providing him with great exposure and even landing him on the cover of Investor's Business Daily. Here, he supplies you with:

• Techniques for developing a master list to focus on what's important
• Hands-on methods for getting off to a fast start
• Strategies for controlling interruptions, e-mail, the phone, and the desk

About this title

About the Author

Kenneth Zeigler is a veteran trainer, consultant, and speaker on time management and productivity. His clients have included the Hertz Corporation, the Federal Reserve, Fidelity Investments, and numerous other blue chip organizations.

From the Back Cover

Techniques for improving your professional and personal success by taking full control of your time

Each day, you have a limited amount of time to meet your unlimited amount of obligations. Organizing for Success is a step-by-step handbook for getting the most out of time, both at work and at home, by adding an all-new, easy-to-achieve structure to your activities.

Organizing for Success features dozens of workplace-tested tools and techniques for organizing and prioritizing your tasks and goals. Instead of focusing on a static, self-limiting system or program, it supplies you with a set of universally applicable skills you can use to:

• Get off to a fast start each day
• Lead by example, and teach others to ask questions and interact more efficiently
• “Traffic-cop” requests so you can focus on one important task at a time
• Control interruptions, and quickly determine which are opportunities
• Send and receive more effective e-mails and phone calls
• Improve the efficiency and useful output of each meeting
• Recognize, manage, and overcome procrastination

Kenneth Zeigler has used his “veggie principle”--veggies are those tasks that are good for you but that you avoid--to help thousands of clients find up to two extra hours in each day. Organizing for Success

Your time.

“Ken Zeigler’s material provides practical insights that are easy to grasp.”

-- Carlyn Houston Army and Air Force Exchange Service

“Ken Ziegler's approach to time management and organization has proven to be both highly effective and easy to comprehend.”

-- Jim Pritchert , VACO Education Service Representative Veterans Administration Learning University

“Ken Zeigler goes right to the heart of the time management and workload challenges facing all of us, presenting the information in a clear, straightforward style.”

-- Gary Sorg, Senior Consultant California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 007145778X
• ISBN 13: 9780071457781
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160