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Conclusion

If you can develop ‘good’ time management habits early in your career
these can be come more automatic as gain more experience.
Managing your time on its own won’t make you a better leader in
itself, but it will give you more opportunity to concentrate on those
things which really make a difference to your school and to you as a
leader.

Managing Your Time:

● Decide on what is really important to you and write it down.
● Develop an awareness of your behaviours, habits and methods of
communication.
● Know what you are responsible for in your job, and what you are
not responsible for.
● Find out how you are actually spending your time.
● Look closely at how you use your time.
● Sort your tasks and actions in terms of what is really important to
you.
● Consider how much time you have to complete a task.
● Identify actions which waste your time and consciously try to
eliminate them.
● Organize and plan your time in accordance with what is really
important to you.

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