Time management training must focus on practical issues and actual experiences particular to the trainees because theories and advises made will not be easily implemented if it deviates from that. While time management training is popular anywhere in the world and trainees sincerely wants to adopt its principles, many training programs can fail when advises talks of generalities and less on the actual realities of the worker. - Individuals may differ but for most people, the first working hours in the morning are the most productive. Use it well. Say no to interruptions that you can do without. The greatest time stealer between the phone, the visitor, the prolonged break, the e-mail and the chit-chat is the never ending "do you have a minute? Besides that is the best way to loose time. That is procrastination. When you have already heard about it, read about it or been trained to do it, do it already. It does not matter if you do not know all the rules, somehow you will learn because people are like that. We are trained to be smart. You and I It is different though when you are hearing it for the first time or while you are already on this page, you want ideas to be reinforced. Prioritize your work Rank the thing you must do for the day. Start with the most important and unpleasant then work you way down. The things that you think is not really needed immediately and not important can be done as the day wore on and if you have the time. Assign work time frames for each. Assigning work time frames for each task, even if it is not so realistic at first can give you a good idea later on regarding the a more realistic approach. If you allocate 4 hours each day for socializing and doing other personal things like jobs, attending extra curricular activities, writing letters, checking on e-mail etc you will still have 28 hours for the week that could be spent further on study periods or your personal time. That still leaves you with almost four hours a day. Employee Time Management at Your Workplace Within the last ten years, the average working time of employees have increased by two hours a day where 75% of the workers are working beyond 40 hours a week. At the same time, employees today have to process 6 times more information than what they use to do 20 years ago.