Time Management Essentials: The Tools You Need to Maximize Your Attention, Energy, and Productivity

by Anna Kornick

Good time management skills have always been an important factor in professional success, but between ever-evolving collaboration apps and the more recent pandemic-related workplace shifts, the tools and even the principles behind them have changed. In Time Management Essentials, you'll get the comprehensive, up-to-date information you need to manage your time with a values-based approach.

With years of experience in crisis communication and a dedication to helping clients stop feeling overwhelmed so they can spend time on what matters most, time management coach Anna Dearmon Kornick provides a step-by-step roadmap to taking charge of your time. In Part The Essentials, she covers everything from task batching and time blocking to avoiding common productivity pitfalls. In Part The Essentials Applied, she delivers practical advice on understanding values, creating ideal work weeks, and establishing effective planning sessions. Finally, in Part Beyond the Essentials, you'll find practical tips to help you get organized, energized, focused, and recharged. Filled with assessments, tool kits, actionable advice, and more, you'll walk away from Time Management Essentials feeling fully prepared to put your skills into action right away.

Genres: Nonfiction

269 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 20, 2023

Reviews

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've been following this podcaster for a little while, and love all things time management and productivity.

This book is part of a series, so I'm assuming somewhat in a required structure. Not much new here, but the writing was excellent, the examples were realistic, and these felt like actual tools to use in life and planning. Overall, a solid guide.

[Amanda · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent - one of the more relevant, practical books of this kind.

[Dee Renee Chesnut · Rating 4 out of 5]

I listened to this on the Hoopla app from my local library. The author was a speaker at GOHQ2024.

I used one of her suggestions for Task Batching when I listed to the audiobook while I completed my daily steps for my health. I think I am using my Evernote app in a way similar to what she refers to as a Digital Dashboard. I have been using my Google calendar, and I refined some recurring events with better estimates of time required for the tasks. I have used the Eisenhower quadrant since I first read about it in Stephen Covey's book, on my Goodreads shelf for 1993.

I read this because there is so much more digital clutter now, and I was feeling overwhelmed by it.

[Amanda Warfield · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’ve done a LOT of research on time management, and never has someone so clearly laid out the exact path to managing your time. But even better than how easy to understand and follow this book is, is the fact that Anna starts and ends the book with so much intention. She begins by diving into our values, and encourages us to understand why we put the things on the calendar that we do. To critically think about what should be there and what shouldn’t. And she ends with rest. Which creates a cohesive time management strategy not just for managing all of the to-do list tasks thrown our way, but for managing our time so we can live a life well-lived.

[Sally Martin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’ve read all the productivity books! This one is thorough and tactical with a lot of solid implementation specifics. It’s also written from a more female perspective which is not the case with many of them - they are theoretically gender neutral but are actually very male.

It’s kind of a productivity sampler and gives you a taste for how to implement everything under the sun. The author is positive and more realistic than your average productivity author. I also like how she uses a variety of life examples - some work and some personal. A good reference book!