1.1 Explain The Importance Of Effective Time Management

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1. Explain the importance of effective time management. (12 marks) Time management skills help to organise and prioritise your activities and keeps you on track. Managing your time at work is of great importance and it will relieve you of the stress and strain of the work environment. Lessening your stress at work by practicing time management skills is important as it leads to a healthier lifestyle. Poor time management leads to backlogs and piling of work which again leads to unnecessary stress. Using time management: • helps you prioritise your work. Once you have a list of things you need to tackle, you need to sort out those that are important, have a deadline then you can see what you should do first. At…show more content…
This could cause poor commitment to work such as failing to respond to phone calls, emails, being late for meetings, they would have trouble concentrating and become disorganised as morale will be low due to lack of self esteem and feeling of unworthiness which could lead to sub-standard performance resulting in disciplinary action. It could also cause and increase in mistakes which may lead to complaints from clients and customers. Stress in a couple of people can adversely impact on others in the team e.g if one team member is off on long term sick leave with a stress related illness, this can have a big impact on the workload and morale on the rest of the team. 6. List symptoms of stress in the workplace. (8 marks) Symptoms of stress in the workplace can vary ranging from: • memory problems • inability to concentrate on your workload • seeing only the negative in things you do at work and in people • worry constantly • becoming irritable/aggressive, withdraw from team and become

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