Effective Time Management

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;
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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 ...

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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.