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Time management and personal productivity

Find out more about time management and productivity with our selection of articles, books and online resources. Identify best practice, techniques and tools to apply to your work and business.

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eBooks

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Exclusive Manage your time: how to work more effectively
  • eBook
  • 2004
  • Kathy Rooney
  • Bloomsbury
A guide to improving personal efficiency.
Exclusive First time manager: the first steps to a brilliant management career, The
  • eBook
  • 2005
  • Michael Morris
  • Kogan Page
Introduction to management topics and skills.
Exclusive Financial Times guide to management: how to be a manager who makes a difference and gets results
  • eBook
  • 2014
  • Anne Francke
  • FT Press
A guide to becoming an effective manager, full of practical tips and advice on to the everyday challenges of: Managing yourself; Developing communication skills and emotional intelligence; Managing others; Setting strategic direction; Managing change; Managing money, resources and technology.
Exclusive Deal with stress: how to improve the way you work
  • eBook
  • 2009
  • Gary L Cooper, Susan Cartwright
  • Bloomsbury Publishing
A guide to understanding and managing workplace stress.
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Online articles

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Exclusive Where do the hours go?
  • Article
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • Gerry Herbison
Gerry Herbison, an executive business coach, provides a number of tips as to how professionals may enhance their productivity through effective time management. He discusses the practicalities of tracking time, prioritising activities, and creating development plans.
Exclusive Focus on what's important, rather than urgent
  • Article
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • Alice Boyes
This article provides action points for shifting your focus to work items that are important - but not urgent. Tips include scheduling time in your calendar for important tasks and putting a time limit on how long you will spend on relatively unimportant tasks. Keep track of the strategies that are working for you, and those that are not, to achieve this goal of better time management for your important tasks.
Exclusive Fitting five days of work into four
  • Article
  • 01 Jan 2023
  • Deanna Cuadra
Terry VanDuyn, director of product management at Kickstarter, shares a week in her life after her employer switched to a four-day working week. She chronicles what time management and work-life balance look like for her now.
Exclusive Are workers more productive at home?
  • Article
  • 02 Jun 2022
  • Justin Fox
A conversation with Stanford economist Nick Bloom on a surprising find from the COVID-19 pandemic: remote work can lead to productivity gains and fuel economic growth. Bloom has been studying employee benefits and discovered that certain pro-work-life-balance policies (maternity leave, job sharing, part-time work and work from home) were positively correlated with good firm performance.
Exclusive The time crunch
  • Article
  • 01 Aug 2021
  • T.L. Stanley
Article on time management for supervisors with a particular focus on how to manage information flows and prioritise work.
Exclusive Managing and building remote finance teams
  • Article
  • 01 Oct 2020
  • Paul McDonald
The article looks at how many accounting and finance leaders keep their teams safe, maintain high productivity levels, and further build remote teams during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Exclusive Time management tips: 6 ways managers can help employees make the most of their workdays.
  • Article
  • 01 Apr 2020
Tips on how managers can assist employees in making the most of their work hours. Covers time tracking apps, to-do lists, do-not-disturb periods, limiting meetings, smarter email practices and staying organised.
Exclusive Seven ways to improve productivity
  • Article
  • 01 Feb 2019
  • Graham Allcott
Tips for better time management and organisational productivity in the era of smartphones.

Useful links

Effective time management
  • Article
  • ICAEW
Many of us feel we don't have enough hours to accomplish all that we need to do, but maybe we are simply not managing our workload well? Time management expert Mark Foster provides some invaluable tips for improvement.
Essential guide to managing your time
  • Website
  • Atom Content Marketing
An article setting out a number of time management tips, aimed at enabling you to meet your goals even when under stressful conditions and facing tight deadlines.
Time management strategies for CPAs
  • Website
  • Association of International Certified Professional Accountants
Four Certified Public Accountants share how they make the most of limited time. Includes tips on how to leverage technology and control your schedule.
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