How essential is time management for us, read this technique to manage yourself. If you learn the art of managingself, you can succeed in anything.
Self-Management - The Best Bet!
Human resource experts have been working towards streamlining processes and reducing the administrative burden on HR professionals. It is in such an endeavour that self-management aided by technology comes as a welcome change.
Benefits
Possibility of well-informed decisions
Streamlines processes and reduces costs
Overcoming hurdles
Three issues that could prevent employees from embracing self-management are:
Anxiety- An HR professional might pass on his anxiety to other employees. This hinders the process of change.
Awareness- HR managers should focus on promoting functionality of self-management. Baseline researches like surveys and focus groups help employees uncover obstacles to self-management.
Access- Earlier employees hesitated using the tools since neither had they access to the Internet at work nor were they proficient using it. Now it is no more an issue as employees can always access the Internet even outside home.
Identifying obstacles is the first step in self-management. A step ahead is establishing strategies to make it happen:
Provide clear goals
Management should convey their expectations to employees clearly. They should specify the channels they would like them to use.
Practice what you preach
Aligning actions with self-management goals reiterates what is expected. More than informing, it is important to motivate them to ensure they are on the right track.
Move together
Employees’ ability to change their behaviour is possible when they consistently hear encouraging messages from all the levels of management.
Organisations should encourage self-management that uses technology that is easy to use. Employees get better opportunities to take up responsibility for their benefits. This tool helps employees help themselves better.
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115Self-Management - The Best Bet!
Human resource experts have been working towards streamlining processes and reducing the administrative burden on HR professionals. It is in such an endeavour that self-management aided by technology comes as a welcome change.
Benefits
Possibility of well-informed decisions
Streamlines processes and reduces costs
Overcoming hurdles
Three issues that could prevent employees from embracing self-management are:
Anxiety- An HR professional might pass on his anxiety to other employees. This hinders the process of change.
Awareness- HR managers should focus on promoting functionality of self-management. Baseline researches like surveys and focus groups help employees uncover obstacles to self-management.
Access- Earlier employees hesitated using the tools since neither had they access to the Internet at work nor were they proficient using it. Now it is no more an issue as employees can always access the Internet even outside home.
Identifying obstacles is the first step in self-management. A step ahead is establishing strategies to make it happen:
Provide clear goals
Management should convey their expectations to employees clearly. They should specify the channels they would like them to use.
Practice what you preach
Aligning actions with self-management goals reiterates what is expected. More than informing, it is important to motivate them to ensure they are on the right track.
Move together
Employees’ ability to change their behaviour is possible when they consistently hear encouraging messages from all the levels of management.
Organisations should encourage self-management that uses technology that is easy to use. Employees get better opportunities to take up responsibility for their benefits. This tool helps employees help themselves better.
From India, Delhi
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Dear Archna,
I agree with you that time management is vital for everybody - at all steps of the corporate ladder and for everyone else - students, housewives, etc. Time Management is the first step to self-advancement.
Being a corporate trainer and external faculty in management schools, I always insist that Time Management is not enough - it should be strongly linked to Stress Management. This is because both Time and Stress Mismanagement are closely and inseparably linked. You are stressed. You begin to mismanage time. The more time you mismanage, the more you are stressed. The more you are stressed, the less able you are at managing time. The cycle goes on unabated, and stress levels and difficulties in time management keep on rising.
The only way you can break out of this cycle is to learn how to manage time and manage stress equally well. Once you start reducing your stress levels, your time management skills start operating, and as you manage time more effectively, your stress levels keep decreasing, until you reach a stage when you can cope with both time and stress without much difficulty.
The combined Time and Stress Management programs I take have been received enthusiastically by all the participants, and they say they have definitely been much more effective after following these precepts.
So, manage both time and stress to be really successful!
From India, Mumbai
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I agree with you that time management is vital for everybody - at all steps of the corporate ladder and for everyone else - students, housewives, etc. Time Management is the first step to self-advancement.
Being a corporate trainer and external faculty in management schools, I always insist that Time Management is not enough - it should be strongly linked to Stress Management. This is because both Time and Stress Mismanagement are closely and inseparably linked. You are stressed. You begin to mismanage time. The more time you mismanage, the more you are stressed. The more you are stressed, the less able you are at managing time. The cycle goes on unabated, and stress levels and difficulties in time management keep on rising.
The only way you can break out of this cycle is to learn how to manage time and manage stress equally well. Once you start reducing your stress levels, your time management skills start operating, and as you manage time more effectively, your stress levels keep decreasing, until you reach a stage when you can cope with both time and stress without much difficulty.
The combined Time and Stress Management programs I take have been received enthusiastically by all the participants, and they say they have definitely been much more effective after following these precepts.
So, manage both time and stress to be really successful!
From India, Mumbai
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Hi Jeroo,
Thank you for adding your valuable input to this post. You are correct; both are interlinked. If you are stressed, it means you are not managing your time properly. Consequently, if you are not managing your time well, you are likely to experience stress. If you want to distress, manage your time. :)
Cheers,
Archna
From India, Delhi
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Thank you for adding your valuable input to this post. You are correct; both are interlinked. If you are stressed, it means you are not managing your time properly. Consequently, if you are not managing your time well, you are likely to experience stress. If you want to distress, manage your time. :)
Cheers,
Archna
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Hi,
Dear Archana and Jeroo,
Fantastic views on time and stress management. Exactly, if time is managed, then stress will be managed automatically, keeping it far from us.
Well, Archana, nice thoughts and views. Yaar, please give me some practical tips on it. I know that whenever I start my day in a proper way with full planning, that day I really enjoy, but I do not always implement it.
Keep sending these things.
My email ID is: barkhatemle@rediffmail.com. Please do reply.
Regards, Barkha
From India, Bhopal
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Dear Archana and Jeroo,
Fantastic views on time and stress management. Exactly, if time is managed, then stress will be managed automatically, keeping it far from us.
Well, Archana, nice thoughts and views. Yaar, please give me some practical tips on it. I know that whenever I start my day in a proper way with full planning, that day I really enjoy, but I do not always implement it.
Keep sending these things.
My email ID is: barkhatemle@rediffmail.com. Please do reply.
Regards, Barkha
From India, Bhopal
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Valuable information on stress and time management. "Self-management" is a very insightful term you have used. Spiritual books are full of "Know thyself" which can be very difficult in real life as the latest American research shows (some links on my blog - http://mypyp.wordpress.com/).
Good self-management can ensure the right person in the right job and harmonious work relationships - two of the most important HRD objectives in my view.
From India, New Delhi
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Good self-management can ensure the right person in the right job and harmonious work relationships - two of the most important HRD objectives in my view.
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Most HR people or departments do, at best, preach rather than practice. Time management is essential and is known to every employee. Trumpeting won't help. Educate seniors and involve them in coaching. Remember to assess the seniors' grades in time management. Efforts must be in full blast to improve their time management capabilities and, of course, their active cooperation as involved faculty, teaching while practicing.
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Hey MG and Hiren,
I'm glad you like the inputs shared by both Jeroo Mam and me. Time management is an integral part of anybody's life, not necessarily in professional life only but also in personal life. Managing time has become such an important thing to maintain a well-acclaimed work-life balance, which most of us are not able to do. I hope you all will agree on this. 😉 If we manage ourselves and our time, we can easily manage others.
Cheers!!
Archna
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I'm glad you like the inputs shared by both Jeroo Mam and me. Time management is an integral part of anybody's life, not necessarily in professional life only but also in personal life. Managing time has become such an important thing to maintain a well-acclaimed work-life balance, which most of us are not able to do. I hope you all will agree on this. 😉 If we manage ourselves and our time, we can easily manage others.
Cheers!!
Archna
From India, Delhi
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Hi All CiteHR members!
At the outset, THANKS to Ms. Archana for putting up such useful tips on Self-Management and time management as well! :)
Well, I do agree that if we are able to manage ourselves properly with respect to time and our activities, all other issues regarding controlling and managing others are automatically taken care of. However, the important pitfall is that, in practice, we must first be an example for others to follow, especially when "Change Management" is concerned!
I wholeheartedly agree with all others that managing our own selves is one of the most difficult and challenging tasks for us. Once it is set right, all other matters are taken care of because of the enhanced effectiveness in whatever we do, thereby having a positive impact on all other external entities! :)
That's a very useful contribution, keep it up, Ms. Archana! :)
Regards,
Pankaj Kumar Sinha
GURGAON.
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At the outset, THANKS to Ms. Archana for putting up such useful tips on Self-Management and time management as well! :)
Well, I do agree that if we are able to manage ourselves properly with respect to time and our activities, all other issues regarding controlling and managing others are automatically taken care of. However, the important pitfall is that, in practice, we must first be an example for others to follow, especially when "Change Management" is concerned!
I wholeheartedly agree with all others that managing our own selves is one of the most difficult and challenging tasks for us. Once it is set right, all other matters are taken care of because of the enhanced effectiveness in whatever we do, thereby having a positive impact on all other external entities! :)
That's a very useful contribution, keep it up, Ms. Archana! :)
Regards,
Pankaj Kumar Sinha
GURGAON.
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"MEDITATION IS THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN GROW...
BECAUSE WHEN YOU MEDITATE,
YOU ARE IN SILENCE.
YOU ARE IN THOUGHTLESS AWARENESS.
THEN THE GROWTH OF AWARENESS TAKES PLACE."
Visit www.sahajayoga.org to know more about the true experience of meditation
From India, Delhi
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Hi Pankaj,
Hope we can share these inputs with our friends and colleagues to strike a balance between work and home. Generally, we all have a lot of excuses for not managing our time properly. Traffic, rains, etc. are the most common excuses we give. 😉 Hope you have also read my blog; I tried to include something extra.
Best Regards,
Archna
From India, Delhi
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Hope we can share these inputs with our friends and colleagues to strike a balance between work and home. Generally, we all have a lot of excuses for not managing our time properly. Traffic, rains, etc. are the most common excuses we give. 😉 Hope you have also read my blog; I tried to include something extra.
Best Regards,
Archna
From India, Delhi
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