STRESS TEST

Eliminate stress caused by poor time management

Exercise :
Sensible time management tackles most of the twelve most common roots of management stress. Research on thousand managers in ten countries has identified these as follows.

Please put a number in each box, listing your stress potency quotient (SPQ) from one (extremely high) to five (virtually non existent)
( ) Time pressures and deadlines
( ) Work overload
( ) Inadequately trained subordinates
( ) Long working hours
( ) Attending meetings
( ) Demands of work on private and social life
( ) Keeping up with new technology
( ) Holding beliefs conflicting with those of organization
( ) Taking work home
( ) Lack of power and influence
( ) The amount of travel required by work
( ) Doing a job below one’s competence


Add up your score

12-24 You are already stressed. Take a day off, see your doctor and check your time management skills
25-44 You need to improve your time management across a wide front. Do not procrastinate
45- 59 Select particular areas for improvement and work on them without delay
60 Fine, but how about the people working for You