Time Management for Project Managers

This lecture will go into how to set up subfolders within your email system so that you are on your way to organizing your emails.  We'll look at the best strategy to set up your email subfolders.

During this lecture, you'll understand how to effectively go through each email with the ultimate goal of having no emails in your inbox.  As each email comes in, you'll know what to do to quickly move it out of your inbox.

This lecture focuses on an important aspect of email management - the fact that emails are automatically deleted.  Depending on the organization you work at they may have a policy in place to automatically delete emails to save storage space or for security purposes.  We'll look at how to effectively archive your emails, especially approval emails, so that you retain critical information.

In this lecture, we discuss how to organize your files into directories.  This way, you can effectively manage your time by easily finding your files.

Having a messy workstation or office desk leads to higher stress and makes you look disorganized.  This lecture discusses how to organize your workstation so that you can focus on what's important rather than random pieces of paper on your desk.

This lecture will introduce the Action Item Document and how this can be leveraged to help you manage your time.  This document is a good repository to keep all of your to-do's for your projects. 

Here, we will see the Action Item Document leveraged in a hypothetical status meeting with your project team. 

This lecture presents the project risk register and how you can leverage this document to identify all risks to your project.  This will help you identify what may come up on your project.  It will also help you to manage your time in the event this risk is realized and becomes an issue. 

Within this lecture, we will discuss how you can get your team involved in identifying risks in your projects.  The risk register will be leveraged for this and help you to identify what priority to give first if the risk is realized. 

With this lecture, I wanted to specifically highlight the risks associated with Software Integrations.  I did this because this is one of the most overlooked portions of risks that happen in IT Projects but, if overlooked, will definitely cause your project to miss its deadline.  With software integrations, there may even be regulatory considerations that you need to plan for.

In this lecture, we'll discuss how monthly planning is a fantastic way to get an overview of everything you need to do for the upcoming month.  This is a fantastic way of knowing what to focus on and manage your time by not focusing on items of lesser priority.  You can find the presentation slide for this lecture in Lecture 29 - RESOURCES.

In this lecture, we will see monthly planning in action and how you can leverage this process to put you in a position to best manage your time for the upcoming month.

This lecture discusses how to set up meetings in a way that is most effective for you and your teammates. 

Within this lecture, we will discuss a walkthrough of a meeting that you will host.  We'll talk about the topics that you should focus on and how to effectively manage the meeting so that time is not wasted.  One of the leading causes of time mismanagement is meetings that don't stick to the agenda.  If further discussion is required, then arrange for a separate call for that topic. 

In this lecture, we'll discuss the different types of personal planners that can help you get on track to managing your time effectively. 

This lecture discusses the advantages and disadvantages of online planners. 

In this lecture, we'll go over the advantages and disadvantages of book or bound planners. 

Here, we will discuss how time mismanagement is a huge disadvantage. 

The benefits of time management will be discussed during this lecture. 

This lecture sums up Section 9 and sets us up for the conclusion of the course.