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NIYODUSENGA Clement
NIYODUSENGA Clement

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Effective time management strategies

It’s a while since we joined the Taskforce Bootcamp and every single day we learn. Today, I want to point out a few of the many key areas I have acquired this week.

As usual, Monday we had a team-building session, the session was very wonderful, we played a game of sharing a photo that could describe you, and of course, we had to explain why we chose that photo. It helped me to know more about my teammates and our very own mentor and CEO of Code of Africa, Anja Schlösser.

Apart from team building, we had another session on time management. Today, I will focus a lot on this point as it is very important in our daily life.

Time management is the process of organizing and planning how to divide your time between specific activities. The ability to manage your time effectively leads to improved efficiency and productivity.

Before this session, I used to know that time management is about noting down the task you have to do, but now there is another important key I gained, which is “setting the time limit of a task”.

Here there is a methodology I enjoyed during the session, and I’m willing to follow it, Eisenhower Matrix.

The Eisenhower Matrix, also referred to as Urgent-Important Matrix, helps you decide on and prioritize tasks by urgency and importance, sorting out less urgent and important tasks which you should either delegate or not do at all.

Eisenhower Matrix

I could write a lot about time management but let me share a single image that describes in short the tips I learned for effective time management.
Tips for efective time management

Conclusion

Good time management enables an individual to work smarter not harder. It also enables us to complete more in a short period of time and lowers stress.

Thank you for reading!

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