Help! I Need More Time!

Do you know where your time is going? This exercise describes activities that waste time.

Just like everyone else, supervisors wonder where the time goes. They find that there are certain activities and behaviors that most often lead them to waste time. Research has identified the most common time wasters. Frequently supervisors have to engage in activities that can become time wasters; however, knowledge, experience, and planning can help reduce their overall effects on the work day. Supervisors can manage their time wisely by knowing how to deal with the time wasters.

Read the descriptions of the various individuals and match them to the time waster that best describes them.

$1$

Telephone Calls,

Unscheduled

$3$

Meetings

$5$

Procrastination

Paperwork and Visitors $$ Texts, and Email

$2$

$6$

Reading Material

$7$

Inability to Say No

Match each of the options above to the items below.

Lousine is developing a plan to use time wisely, knowing full well that the next hour will be a total waste of time. Brings her laptop so she can get some work done while waiting for others who arrive late, make small talk, and waste time with off$-$topic discussions.

Knowing that interruptions can cause workers to lose up to $25$ minutes before getting back to what they were working on$,$ Mehmet has developed a habit of only dealing with messages from others at specific times in the day.