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Time Management: How to Stretch the Time Rubber Band, Third Edition
Wolf J. Rinke, PhD, RD, CSP

C198
5 CPEUs
$44.95

This completely revised and updated manual (56 pgs) will enable you to:

  • Master a four-step process to get the most out of every 24 hours.
  • Chunk time and routinize crisis.
  • Apply the Task Analysis Grid (TAG) to prioritize tasks, set goals and delegate more effectively.
  • Balance your life and reduce stress.
  • Succeed faster.

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1000, 1120, 7000

This course is approved by ADA, DMA, SNA

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TIME MANAGEMENT
HOW TO STRETCH THE TIME RUBBER BAND
Third Edition

Wolf J. Rinke, PhD, RD, CSP

Copyright 2009 Wolf Rinke Associates, Inc.

CUSTOMER COMMENTS

Shannon Simpfenderfer: "This resource outlined practival tips for ways in which I can utilize my time more effectively, thus increasing my efficiency!"

Marie Brutus: "It is clear and simple. I thought I was doing if Live! I could not stop laughing at your humor breaks! Fantastic!"

OVERVIEW AND INSTRUCTIONS

Welcome to the Time Management: How to Stretch the Time Rubber Band, 3rd ed. self-directed accredited learning program.

This program is designed to help you get the most of the only nonrenewable resource you will ever manage-your time. It is a Level 2 Continuing Professional Education (CPE) program approved for 5 continuing education units (CPEUs). That means that the reader has some knowledge of the literature and professional practice within the area covered. The focus of the program is to enhance knowledge and application.

To get the most out of this program, it is suggested that you adhere to the following six steps:

Step 1: Review the objectives.

Step 2: Assess your current knowledge by completing the pre-self-assessment instruments and any other exercises contained in the self-study program.

Step 3: Score your current knowledge by comparing your answers to the scoring instructions contained in this self-study program.

Step 4: Read and reflect on how you can apply the information.

Step 5: Assess what you have learned by completing the self-assessment instrument at the end of the learning program.

Step 6: Compare your answers to the answer key. If you scored at least 80% correct, you have completed the program and are ready to transfer your answers to the CPEU REPORTING FORM. If you scored less than 80% correct, re-read the program until you score at least 80% correct.

Complete the following optional steps to achieve real improvements in your time management skills:

Step 7: Apply what you have learned by practicing Time Management strategies at every possible opportunity, because the more you practice, the more effective you will become.

Step 8: Monitor your progress and keep using the time management strategies that increase your effectiveness, and quit using those that do not.

After you have successfully completed the program, complete the CPEU REPORTING FORM and
Mail to: Wolf Rinke Associates, Inc., P.O. Box 350, Clarksville, MD 21029,
Or fax to: (410) 531-9282,
Or submit on-line at www.easyCPEcredits.com.

Upon receipt of your successfully completed CPE REPORTING FORM, you will receive a written certificate of completion for 5 CPEUs from us.

I would like you to become a super-effective time manager! If you have questions or suggestions, please feel free to call or e-mail me.

Happy Learning!

Wolf J. Rinke, PhD, RD, CSP, 800-828-9653, WolfRinke@aol.com


OBJECTIVES

As a result of studying and applying the concepts presented in this self-directed learning program, you will be better able to:

  • Appreciate that one of the most precious resources that anyone manages is time.
  • Distinguish the different types of time.
  • Make the most of the time that is under your discretion.
  • Recognize that time management is a misnomer.
  • Apply the rubber band approach to time to get the most out of every 24 hours.
  • Squeeze the most out of each day by learning how to chunk time and routinize crisis.
  • Assess how well you currently utilize your time.
  • Take advantage of the Pareto Principle.
  • Maximize your time utilization by using a four-step process.
  • Apply the Task Analysis Grid (TAG) to prioritize tasks and set goals.
  • Apply the Task Analysis Grid (TAG) to determine how and what to delegate.
  • Apply specific strategies to balance your life.
  • Reduce your perceived level of stress.

Apply specific time "management" strategies that will enable you to succeed faster.


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Know Thy Time 1
Types of Time 2
Boss-Imposed Time 2
System-Imposed Time 3
Self-Imposed Time 3
Subordinate-Imposed Time 3
Discretionary Time 3
Time Management: Fact or Fiction 4
The Rubber Band Approach to Time Management 5
Chunking Time, or How to Get it All Together 7
How to Routinize Crisis 8
Time Rubber Band Stretching Skills: A Self-Assessment 9
What Your Score Means 11
How to Get the Most Out of Every 24-Hour Day 12
Record Your Time 12
Analyze Your Time Expenditures 14
Looking for Time Patterns in All the Right Places 18
Categorize Your Tasks 21
Distinguish Between the Urgent and the Important 24
Allocate Your Tasks 25
Set Goals and Priorities 28
A Simple Tool to Prioritize Your Life 29
How to Eat an Elephant 30
One More Time with Feeling 30
Take Advantage of the Three-Minute Rule 31
How to Balance Your Life and Conquer Stress 32
Take Control 32
Master the Most Powerful Stress Control System of All Time 33
Change the Changeable 33
Accept the Unchangeable 33
Remove Yourself from the Unacceptable 34
Make a Weekly Date with Your Significant Other 34
Simplify Your Life 34
Create Solitude 35
Exercise-Your Life Depends on It 35
Sleep Well 36
Maintain a Regular Sleep Schedule 36
Wind Down 37
Eat as Early as Possible 37
Don't Fight It 37
Make Time for Joy 38
Summary 38
Time Management Action Steps 41
Notes 43
For Your Continuing Learning 45
Self-Assessment Instrument 47
Answer Key 51
Explanations to Self-Assessment Questions 52
About the Author 55
About Wolf Rinke Associates, Inc. 56


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Wolf J. Rinke, PhD, RD, CSP, is the president and founder of Wolf Rinke Associates, Inc., an accredited provider of quality pre-approved home-study CPE courses for nutrition professionals available at www.easyCPEcredits.com. Another division (www.WolfRinke.com) has been custom designing and delivering stimulating keynote presentations, interactive problem solving funshops and highly effective consulting, coaching and educational services since 1988. They specialize in building peak-performance teams and organizations, and providing one-on-one executive coaching that leads to dramatic improvements in performance and productivity.

Dr. Rinke is a. . .

  • Highly effective management consultant and executive coach with more than 30 years of hands-on management and leadership experience.
  • Certified Speaking Professional (CSP*) who is internationally known for his ability to energize, entertain and empower. (*CSP-a credential earned by fewer than 500 professional speakers worldwide.)
  • Widely published author of numerous CPE programs and best selling books such as MAKE It a Winning Life: Success Strategies for Life, Love, and Business, Winning Management: 6 Fail-Safe Strategies for Building High-Performance Organizations and Don't Oil the Squeaky Wheel and 19 Other Contrarian Ways to Improve Your Leadership Effectiveness.
  • Noted management, leadership and personal development expert, ranked by Executive Excellence magazine among "the top 100 minds" in the field of personal and leadership development, along with Tom Peters, Oprah Winfrey, Stephen Covey and others.
  • Media personality who has been featured on CNN and more than 300 other TV and radio shows.
  • Highly decorated, retired lieutenant colonel of the US Army Medical Specialist Corps.
  • Former adjunct associate professor of management at Johns Hopkins and U. of Maryland.
  • Self-made millionaire who started to work full-time on a ship at age 14.
  • Some of the organizations that have benefited from Dr. Rinke's services include:

Am Red Cross o ARAMARK o Baxter o BCE Emergis (Canada) o Bristol-Myers Squibb o Brookings Institution o Centre for Leadership-Ontario (Canada) o Cigna o Continental/SiLite o Delta Air Lines o Dept of Health & Human Svcs o Dole o Dong Energy (Denmark) o Duke Power o Grocery Manufacturers of America o Hospital Purchasing & Materials Mgt Assn o Institute for Management Studies o Lykes Pasco o Manor Care o Marriott o Merck o Michelin o Motorola o NCR o NCI o Natl Dairy Council o Natl Health Corp o Natl Restaurant Assn o Ontario Hospital Assn (Canada) o Rockwool (Denmark) o SAP (Germany) o Sargento Foods o Saskatchewan Assn of Health Organizations (Canada) o Select Service Partner A/S (Denmark) o Seneca Foods o ServiceMaster o Sysco o Texas Instruments o UCB Pharma o US Foodservice o Veterans Admin o Warner Bros. o Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories plus numerous other companies, organizations and associations throughout North America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim.

Several of his popular CPE programs available at www.easyCPEcredits.com include:

  • Beat the Blues: How to Manage Stress and Balance Your Life
  • Win-Win Negotiation: Fail-Safe Strategies to Help You Get More of What You Want
  • Knock'em Alive Presentation Skills: How to Make an Effective Presentation for 1 to 1,000
  • Winning Management: 6 Fail-Safe Strategies for Building High-Performance Organizations
  • Don't Oil the Squeaky Wheel: Contrarian Ways to Improve Your Leadership Effectiveness
  • How to Motivate Employees to Achieve Peak Performance
  • How to Maximize Professional Potential & Increase Your Earning Power in Nutrition and Dietetics
  • Positive Attitude: The Key to Peak Performance

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