Ievolve Course ID - 1060 Organizing & Planning
L1 Path-1 - Linked in course Final assessment - 5 ways to control your time - Answers
1. Systems should be put in place for tasks that
_____.
repeat themselves
2. Dale consistently comes in early and stays late at
his job. What is the likely result of Dale's longer hours?
Dale will likely
not achieve anything with the longer hours.
3. What is the best argument that of all the boxes in
the Eisenhower Matrix, enjoyment would be a Box Three item?
enjoyment is
important and rarely urgent
4. Dale notices she is wasting more time lately. She
wonders if it has to do with self-discipline and assertiveness. How would those
apply to time wasting?
time she is lacking
in self-discipline, if she is letting others waste her time she is lacking in
assertiveness.
5. Of the reasons managers do not delegate, what
reason can be overcome by monitoring?
"they might
do it wrong"
6. Dana likes using the Eisenhower Matrix as she
thinks about how well her staff manages their time. If Dana considered any of
them as failures it would be because they spend to much time in _____.
Box One
7. What is likely to occur if a manager confuses
importance and urgency in two tasks she needs to perform?
she will likely do
the tasks in the wrong order and not allocate the right amount time to the more
important task
8. What two steps are required to effectively manage
your time?
determining what
is important and finding ways to spend more time on important things
9. Dale has completed the course on ways to control
her time and wants to put what she learned into action. For the next meeting
she had to run Dale prepares an agenda. This is an example of _____.
a more efficient
system
10. Dale is using the Eisenhower Matrix for time
management. Where is Dale most likely to identify time that is least
effectively being used?
Box Two – Hassle
11. When it comes to unimportant tasks, what can be
said about a manager who has not delegated a task and does the task herself?
she has failed as
a manager
12. A "can-do" culture" can turn into a
"fail to do" culture. What can a boss do to avoid that outcome?
allow employees to
say no to customers when appropriate
13. What rule should you apply when deciding how
perfectly you want to perform a task in order to get the most from your time?
important things
should be done really well and unimportant things only done well enough
14. Dale was given two tasks by Ryan and now he had
just handed her a third. Of the various negotiation techniques, which one
should Dale avoid?
telling Ryan she
has already set the priorities
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