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Zeigler, Kenneth. Organizing for Success, Second Edition. US: McGraw-Hill, 2010.

Organizing for Success, Second Edition

Authors: Kenneth Zeigler

Published:  February 2010

eISBN: 9780071740616 0071740619 | ISBN: 9780071739566
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  • Contents
  • Introduction: The 4th Dimension of Time Management
  • The History of this Book
  • The Best Way to Start
  • Why Typical Approaches Don’t Work
  • How to Use this Book
  • Lights, Camera, Action!
  • Chapter 1: Lost, but Making Excellent Time
  • The Reasoning for Keeping Track of your Time
  • Let’s Get Started by Downloading the Timekeeping Journal
  • How to Keep the Journal for Best Results
  • Chapter 2: Taking Control of your Day
  • What You’ll Learn in This Chapter
  • You Have Choices
  • Understanding the Ringmaster “Mindset”
  • The Ringmaster’s Strategies
  • Chapter 3: Using a Master List to Create a Plan that Works
  • Using a Master List to Create a Plan that Works
  • How to Create and Use a Master List
  • Quick Tips
  • Chapter 4: Organizing and Planning a More Effective Day and Week
  • Using the End of your Day to Increase Your Productivity
  • The First Key to Productivity Is How you End Each Day—The End of Each Day Is the Springboard for Getting Off to a Fast Start the Next Day
  • The Second Key to Productivity is How you Start Each Day—Using the Veggie Principle to Focus on What Matters Most
  • The Third Key to Productivity Is How Much You get Done by Noon
  • Making an Effective Daily List
  • How to Put Together a Powerful Morning
  • How to Put Together a More Productive and Powerful Week
  • Quick Tips
  • Chapter 5: Prioritizing and Giving Others your Priorities
  • Why We have Trouble Prioritizing Accurately
  • How Human Nature Affects the Way We Prioritize
  • Determining and Handling Priorities
  • Establishing Priorities
  • The Five-Part Model to Influence Others
  • How to Negotiate Requests
  • Successful People Do One Thing at a Time
  • See If you Can Fit It into your Schedule
  • Write Down the Task and Circle the Deadline
  • Show your Leader and Team Members your Plan
  • Quick Tips
  • Chapter 6: Controlling E-mail and Using your E-mail System More Effectively
  • How to Control your E-Mail
  • Don’t Use your In-Box as your To-Do List
  • Use your E-Mail System to Manage your E-Mail
  • Quick Tips
  • Chapter 7: Organizing your Writing and Speech to Get Faster Results
  • What You’ll Learn in This Chapter
  • Use your Subject Line to get your Reader to Open your E-Mail
  • What Is the Purpose of your Letter or E-Mail?
  • Have One Key Point or Issue Per Message
  • Consider your Reader or Audience Before you Write
  • Understand your Overwhelmed Reader
  • Your Message Should Have these Three Characteristics
  • Understanding What’s at Stake
  • Make your Writing Reader Friendly
  • Use the PADD Model to Organize your Writing
  • If you Must Forward a Message, Give Instructions
  • When you Hit The Reply Key, Modify the Subject Line
  • E-Mail Etiquette
  • Quick Tips
  • Chapter 8: Organizing and Streamlining your Projects
  • What You’ll Learn in This Chapter
  • What Is the Objective of your Project?
  • Leave Room in your Plan for Things to Go Wrong
  • Focus on your Project and Work on It When you’re at your Best
  • To Accurately Set up your Project, It’s Important that you...
  • Nine Easy Steps to Effective Project Management
  • Quick Tips
  • Chapter 9: Effective Delegation that Works
  • What You’ll Learn in This Chapter
  • Why Don’t We Delegate More? (The Obstacles)
  • Benefits of Successful Delegation
  • Use your Master List to Track Tasks you’ve Delegated
  • The 10 Steps to Delegating Successfully
  • Quick Tips
  • Chapter 10: Planning and Executing an Effective Meeting
  • Characteristics of Unproductive Meetings
  • There Are Three Types of Meetings
  • Planning an Effective Meeting
  • Organize your Agenda and Meeting This Way
  • Let the Meeting Begin
  • At the End of the Meeting
  • Other Meeting Ideas and Strategies
  • Quick Tips
  • Chapter 11: Managing the Phone and Interruptions
  • Why Interruptions Can Be so Damaging
  • Criteria for a Worthwhile Interruption
  • Try to Control the Noise Around you
  • Turn your Monitor or Laptop
  • Chairs in your Office
  • Have a Selective Open-Door Policy
  • Reduce “Drive-by Shootings”
  • Put a Sign Outside your Cubicle
  • Work Somewhere Else
  • Tell People
  • If Your Computer Schedules your Time...
  • Learn How to Tactfully Interrupt
  • Stand Up
  • Arrange a Later Time
  • Don’t Prolong the Interruption
  • Agree to a Group Power Hour
  • Delegate the Interruption
  • Managing the Phone and Voice Mail
  • Incoming Calls
  • How to Use Voice Mail Effectively
  • Quick Tips
  • Chapter 12: Developing a Simple, Effective Filing System
  • An Example
  • Take Everything off your Desk
  • Have a Clock Visible
  • Organize your Tools
  • Remove the Future and Past from your Desk File
  • How to Set Up your Working Files
  • Quick Tips
  • Chapter 13: Finding Two More Hours a Day
  • The Law of Subtraction
  • When you Review your Journal
  • Quick Tips
  • Chapter 14: Recognizing and Managing Procrastination
  • It’s Important to Recognize...
  • Major Causes of Procrastination
  • How to Manage Procrastination
  • Quick Tips
  • Appendix: Time Management Action Plan
  • Index