Introduction To understand the best ways of managing myself as a potential team leader I have examined the relationship between time and stress management. I scrutinized the way I manage my own time by keeping a time log also surveying colleagues in a questionnaire, to explore the importance of time management and its relationship to the causes and symptoms of stress. My overall aim is to minimize my own stress and become a more effective leader. Known How to Use Effective Personal Time Management to Achieve Team Goals Effective time management is crucial to achieving team goals, relating to productivity, targets, profit and reputation resulting in lower stress levels. Good time management is making the best use of your time to become more efficient and productive (Demien Kasier 2014). This is important as an individual’s work load will affect others. As a Romec Engineer and an aspiring team leader effective time management will allow me to complete tasks, hit targets set by the Royal Mail, therefore boosting profits. Achieving targets would allow superiors (Field Service Manager FSM) more time as they are not focusing on managing failures. There would also be a knock on effect to the team i.e; Fig1 1.1 Colleagues not taking on back logged work. 1.2 Staff not dealing with prolonged, excessive workloads. 1.3 Managers (at all levels) having time freed to address more important issues. 1.4 Romec targets hit. 1.5 Romec’s profits raised. 1.6 Customer satisfaction higher. 1.7 Romec's reputation enhanced, with a positive effect on future contracts. An example of effective time management was highlighted by a FSM, when referring to the amount of emails. “Replying to everything as it comes in then you’d be overwhelmed you have to be able ... ... middle of paper ... ...ng 6.5 Legal 6.6 Health 6.7 Education Outside of work support can be accessed from the NHS. The NHS provides online advice and 24/7 phone lines and GPs can diagnose and recommend medication/therapy. The Samaritans can give support to any one dealing with stress in their lives by talking through problems on their phone line. Conclusion Through researching time and stress management techniques, questioning colleagues and examining how I conduct my own time at work I will be able to avoid becoming overwhelmed by stress. In managing my own work load with a clearer prioritized system (urgent/important matrix) and delegating or discarding tasks that do not require my time to complete, I will keep stress levels down. Also using relaxation to stem the effects of stress and knowing where support can be accessed will enable me to become an effective team leader within Romec.
In the workplace, it can be a challenge to juggle several different responsibilities that you may have to complete within a certain time period. Time management is an essential quality for a person to have wherever they work. "Whatever your reasons for doing what you do, better time management at work means you continually strive to improve your effectiveness and your efficiency," (Tom Wilson, 2017) In otherwords, time management improves an individual's overall work ethic and helps them to succeed. In order to gain a greater understanding of the importance of time management in the workplace and improve my skills of time management, I am inserting myself into one of the scenarios that was given to me and state what I would do in that situation.
In Forsyth (2003), time management is about working actively to create efficiency and effectiveness in a way that makes achieving your target more likely. Good effective time management is a core skill, a differentiating factor which allows you to have an edge over other people (Williams & Cooper 2002). Time management is not optional; it is something that everyone has to acquire in order to work effectively, to achieve work-life balance and most importantly helping us to stay focus. Everyone practices time management to some degree; the only question is how well they do it and how it affects what they do (Hawkins 1996).
Managing time reduces stress levels in your mind and body. Setting goals and a timeline to get them done will give you more time to be productive in your tasks. Managing time can cause less barriers in life responsibilities. Not only does time management helps to get more done it also gives you more time to focus on other areas of your life such as nutrition and managing your
At an early age, we are taught that to be productive we must master our time management skills. So, we scour through self-help books and click-through countless blog articles for the solution.
Besides that, to managing the stress effectively for themselves, it is very important for managers understand the organizational stress process well enough to assist other with their experiences of stresses. In additions, stress occurs in human life is frequency because there are many challenge people need to face in daily. Also it is a part of student’s life, when the student study at university, they may face more difficult problem such as more expectation from their parents, financial problems, exam or assignments. Then, stress also can happen at home, school, and in businesses. Stress has numerous definitions and there are numerous routes to operate and control the stress. But, how do someone realize and managing their stresses? There are many ways to overcome the stress.
There are so many reports of workplace or organizational stress. It would be easily concluded that everyone, everywhere is depressed and discouraged. Every employee feels stress related to his or her work.Many employees complain about their jobs, their bosses and their subordinates. So it has become necessary to releases pressure to that extend that allow the workers to calm down and get back to work without stress. The stress at workplaces is increasing from many years but management did not take it up seriously(Ira S. Wolfe).Stress is a condition which happens when one realizes the pressures on himself/herself, or the requirements of a situation are wider than their recognition that they are able to handle. If these requirements continue for a longer period of time with out any interval then mental, physical or any other behavior problems may occur (Health &Safety Executive UK ). Stress is an individual's reaction to an environmental force that effects an individual performance.(Kahn et al. 1964 & Selye, 1956 )Work place stress has been also viewed as dysfunctional for organizations their eployess and managers (Wolfe, Quinn,Kahn, Snoek, & Rosenthal, 1964).There is link between anxiety stress with satisfaction and performance of employees. Lower anxiety and stress improves performance of employees (Donnelly & Ivancevich, 1975) . For the present study, stress was conceptualized to consist of four psychiatric conditions which reduces he employee’s job performabe.One is Depression( Feeling lonely, fed up, Dejected and loss of sexual desire) 2nd is Anxiety(Frequency of upset, sour stomach, feeling dim or little dizzy, hand trembling, feeling afraid and avoiding things).3rd is Cognitive Disorder(Experie...
As a future IHP, it is important to be able to cope with stress and ensure that I do not burnout (Ross & Deverell, 2004:305). Along with a thorough understanding of what stress and burnout is, I will use a personal past experience to explain how I will develop stress-management strategies and implement them in my behaviour.
There are many different parts to time management, such as procrastination, strategy, organization, expectations and being prepared. All of them contribute equally in many ways. All of the things that we have spoken about in this paper are highly recommended. The best thing to do when it comes to time management is to set a strategy, become organized and do your best to avoid procrastination. When you manage your time make sure you include the following; studying, sleeping, eating, relaxing and other necessary things. No matter what our circumstances are, we can all use some time management skills in our lives.
In the workplace, time management is an important factor in everyone’s day-to-day work. If a person’s time is well managed, it is possible to achieve a greater amount in a shorter space of time. How effectively people manage their time has a major influence on aspects of their working lives and their personal lives. Effective time management can have a hugely positive effect on a person, it can lead to a focused and disciplined mentality, giving a higher level of productivity, greater efficiency and an all round positive attitude in life. This benefits the individual, their team, the company they work for and also their friends and family. An example of this is an employee who prioritises their jobs at the start of the day; this gives them a structured day and ensures they have time to complete all of the important jobs. However, if time is poorly managed it can lead to inefficiencies, work overload and added pressure, this could eventually lead on to other issues such as stress.
People in the type A group tend to be more aggressive in pursuing their goals, noticeably impatient, and very time urgent. They always feel the need to double up their effort and speed to achieve their goals. On the other hand, is the type B personalities who are very cautious, patient, and good at working on long term goals even if the results looks bleak at the first instance. These two different traits react to stressful work demands differently. While Type As tend to be very good at meeting deadlines, they do not react well when they feel being slowed by other team members. In other words, generally they do not make good team players. The Type B might be a slower and takes so much times to achieve certain goals but he/she can fit very well with others and tends to make them better by the virtue of his/her patience. Using the person-job fit model, individuals with no patience for failure or people dragging them can be put in jobs with less or no human interface. Work related stress can be best handled by an individual with patience and decorum (p. 471). The Stress Management Framework used by most organizations aims the secondary intervention on the individual and how he/she reacts to the situation. Not all stressors or strains can be eliminated especially if the nature of the work demands it. Instead, employers redirect efforts to make the individual employees strong enough to deal with it
When we think of time management, we tend to think of personal time management. Loosely defined as managing our time to waste less time on doing the things we have to do, so that we have more time to do the things that we want to do. Therefore, time management is often thought of, or presented as, a set of time management skills. The idea is that once we master the time management skills, we’ll be more organized, efficient, and happier. Personal time management skills include: goal setting, planning, prioritizing, decision-making, delegating, and scheduling. Time management is essentially a matter of self-discipline,
It is therefore, vital for the students to realize the actual root causes of poor time management and arrest the same in good time. Some of the stated causes include: lack of prioritizing tasks, lack of setting personal goals, failing to manage distractions, procrastination, multitasking and last but not least in effective scheduling of tasks.
Business is a game. There are pawns , there are strategies, and there are cheats. To win this game, one must be resourceful, proactive, and ready to fail. In the world of business, it is almost necessary to fail before you finally win. However, to minimize the risk of failing, there are several techniques and aspects to consider. I believe time is one of the most vital ones. Time management can make or break a company. Time management may be one of the toughest aspects to conquer and perfect but it sure isn’t impossible.
In conclusion, workers should balancing theirs relax time and work time unless employee cannot avoid stress. This will help us to reduce the chance to get stressed and forget in 21st century’s problem. Stress in the workplace is caused by work and workload. Employees are harmed emotionally and physically by workplace stress. There are two factors of stress in the workplace which are internal and external. When you are relaxing at home, just forget the problems at work. This is the only time you have to relax and being peaceful. Lastly, stress always brings negative attitude and affects your health, so relax as long as you can.
In order to find a solution to the issue of stress in the workplace, it is important to first understand what stress is. Stress is a difficult issue to solve because everyone experiences stress differently. According to the National Institute of mental health, stress can be defined as the brain’s response to any demand (“Fact Sheet on Stress”). When there is any sort of change going on, it usually triggers the stress response. Since people are always dealing with certain changes in their lives, they are always dealing with some type of stress. One of the biggest growing issues with stress is stress in the workplace. According to Northweste...