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  Are there any periods that I could use more productively? At what time of day do I do my most effective work? Some people are most alert in the morning, whilst others concentrate best during the afternoon or evening. Schedule your most important tasks for these times of day. A time log can be particularly useful at times of pressure, for example, when revising for examinations or jobhunting during your final year. By now you should have been able to identify ways in which you could manage your time more efficiently, and know some techniques to allow you to do this. Source: University of Kent (http://www.kent.ac.uk) Time Management Training from ManageTrainLearn. There are 7 scales against which we can measure ourselves as time managers at work. They are: 1. Control: is control of your time with you or others? 2. Pace: is your pace of work even or erratic? 3. Direction: do you have short-term or long-term objectives? 4. Variety: is there a little or a lot of variety in your work? 5. Ownership: do you own what you do or do others? 6. Volume: does the amount of work you do result in overloads or underloads? 7. Balance: is there an equal or unequal balance in the different tasks you do? 1202