TOPIC 3- Time management and organizational skill

🔑OPTIMIZING STUDY TIME🔒

✍What you do with your time is critical to your success in university?

✍Time management is the way you regulate or schedule your time.

WHY DO WE NEED TIME MANAGEMENT?
⏰To save time.
⏰To reduce stress.
⏰To function effectively.
⏰To increase our work output.
⏰To have more control over job responsibilities.

HOW TO USE TIME EFFECTIVELY
👉Effective planning.
👉Setting goals and objectives.
👉Setting deadlines.
👉Delegation of responsibilities.
👉Prioritizing activities as per their importance.
👉Spending the right time on the right activity.


🔏ORGANIZING STUDY TIME🔐

5 STEPS TO SCHEDULE YOUR STUDY
📋Create an assignment calendar.
📋Prepare a running list.
📋Use daily 'To do' list.
📋Set up your study schedule.
📋Use your daytime study hours & use time between classes.

HOW TO MANAGE MULTIPLE PROJECTS / ASSIGNMENTS?

1. Make a plan.
2. Set priorities.
3. Develop a system.
4. Monitor progress.

📢USING TIME MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES TO STAY MOTIVATED🔕

5 STRATEGIES TO DEVELOP A SUCCESSFUL SYSTEM OF STUDY

💦Use a weekly schedule.

💦Use a daily planner.

💦Use a semester calendar.

💦Balance academic with social and personal demands.

💦Avoid procrastination(avoiding,delaying or postponing task / work).

STRATEGIES FOR MAINTAINING STUDY MOTIVATION

💨Study in one hour blocks.

💨Take breaks.

💨Tackle difficult assignments first.

💨Switch subjects/courses.

💨Breaks tasks down.

💨Work a head.

💨Plan rewards.

🔼REDUCING PROCRASTINATION🔽

MAIN CAUSES OF PROCRASTINATION

➤Self downing.

➤Low frustration tolerance.

➤Hostility/conflict.

➤Over scheduling.

➤Lack of clear,specific goals.

➤Being a perfectionist.

➤Being lazy.

STRATEGIES TO OVERCOMING PROCRASTINATION

⥤Know what you should accomplish.

⥤Determine deadlines.

⥤Use schedule / planner / calendar.

⥤Prioritize.

⥤Divide a big job into smaller one.

⥤Do the unpleasant task first.

⥤Change your think about the task.

⥤Have fun with the activity.

⥤Reward yourself when you're done.

ADVANTAGES OF BEING ORGANISED

⤳Keep on schedule and meet deadline.

⤳Reduce stress caused by a feeling of lack of control over your work schedule.

⤳Complete work with less pressure and fulfill your potential.

⤳Build you confidence about your ability to cope.

⤳Avoid overlapping assignments and having to juggle more than one piece of work at a time.