Time management manifesto
Tom Dowd
Tom Dowd is a graduate of the University of Delaware with a communication degree, concentrating on interpersonal and organizational communication. He is a prize-winning speaker, an award-winning and Amazon best-selling author, trainer, coach, and radio host. He is a National Speakers Association (NSA) and Global Speakers Federation member, Distinguished Toastmaster, and radio host of “Transformation Time.”
He lives in Camden with his wife and three daughters. He can be contacted at www.transformationtom.com or tom@transformationtom.com. Follow Tom on twitter: @TomDowd4; connect on Facebook at Thomas Dowd Professional Development & Coaching; and on Linkedin, listed as Thomas B Dowd.
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Putting off tasks
By Tom Dowd - Aug 25I used to have a person work for me who managed a small group of employees. She was great with people, but lacked effective organization skills. ...
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Creating your own pressures
By Tom Dowd - Aug 11I was juggling quite a few projects at one time. I was balancing important and not important, urgent and not urgent, I was putting in the hours ...
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Understanding priorities
By Tom Dowd - Jul 28Each morning a peer of mine would settle into her desk, log in to her system, then walk down to the café, chat with friends, and slowly make her ...
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Blending work and life schedules
By Tom Dowd - Jul 07I used to work through lunch. By the end of the day, I’d be worn out, but I needed that hour to get through all the work that I had ahead of me… ...
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Setting the alarm
By Tom Dowd - Jun 11I set an alarm to wake up in the morning, but it rarely goes off since my internal clock always wakes me up about fifteen minutes before the ...
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Taking time to assess strategies
By Tom Dowd - May 28There was a peer of mine whom I would often call and have to leave messages. She would never return my calls. As soon as I sent her an instant ...
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Monitoring multitasking
By Tom Dowd - Apr 28I have been involved in many meetings, especially conference calls, in which people were obviously not engaged. The disengaged population is often ...
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Assessing your checklist habits
By Tom Dowd - Apr 14I used to work with an individual who carried her calendar with her everywhere. Within the calendar was her personal checklist for the day. Each ...
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Investing time to save time
By Tom Dowd - Mar 31Investing time to do something ahead of time saves time. Few people invest the time to read all their emails all the way through. For the most ...
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Following up
By Tom Dowd - Mar 17As I continued to come up the ranks as a new manager, I constantly heard focus group feedback about how lack of follow-through by leaders and ...
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Taking notes
By Tom Dowd - Aug 18I had only been in the real world working for about six months. I was doing decently on the phones, and was promoted to a job with more responsibil...
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Accounting for personal conversations
By Tom Dowd - Aug 04I used to work with a friend who had the same schedule, so we always walked out together each day. But, I found that his end time of 5 p.m. and my ...
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Being curious
By Tom Dowd - Jul 14When a colleague of mine initially started publishing a required report each day, he would get regular questions about it. As time passed, the ...
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Blending work, life schedules
By Tom Dowd - Jun 25I used to work through lunch. By the end of the day, I’d be worn out, but I needed that hour to get through all the work that I had ahead of me… ...
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Managing your email
By Tom Dowd - Jun 04According to bizcommunity.com, it was estimated that 294 billion emails are sent each day, with about 75 percent considered spam, per estimates by ...
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Committing yourself
By Tom Dowd - May 21Have you ever been on a conference call and waited several minutes after the start time of the meeting to actually begin? What if each time a ...
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Creating effective checklists
By Tom Dowd - Apr 21In an ironic twist on the previous chapter, I want to share the power of mindless checklists. As I was packing for a summer vacation, I was ...
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Getting things done with teammates
By Tom Dowd - Apr 07To use a sports analogy, if you run with a ball on your own from point A to point B, it will take you longer than simply kicking it or throwing it ...
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Touch it once
By Tom Dowd - Mar 24I used to have a position as business support manager for a large operation. I was privy to my manager’s inbox and was asked to periodically ...
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Accounting for ancillary time
By Tom Dowd - Mar 10When I managed people in a call center, I used to like walking the floor at least once in the morning and once before I left for the day in order ...
