Time Management Effectiveness Quotient

1. How often do you take work home?
(a) Every day
(b) Three or more days per week
(c) Twice a week
(d) Once a week or less

2 How many people constantly interrupt you in the course of a day?
(a) Six or more
(b) Four to five
(c) Two to three
(d) One or less

3 How much time do you spend each week in other activities outside your job (e.g., hobbies, exercising, social and cultural events, etc.)?
(a) Three hours or less
(b) Four to five hours
(c) Six to nine hours
(d) Ten or more hours

4 How much time do you spend each day “socializing” on the job (e.g., extended coffee breaks, late luncheons, long visits with other supervisors, etc.)?
(a) Two hours or more
(b) Sixty to ninety minutes
(c) Fifteen to thirty minutes
(d) Less than fifteen minutes

5. How many separate stacks of work are usually on your desk during the day?
(a) Three stacks or more
(b) Two stacks
(c) One stack
(d) My desk is clear

6. How much of your work do you delegate?
(a) Very little
(b) About twenty-five percent
(c) Forty to fifty percent
(d) More than fifty percent

7. How often do you approach and discuss things with people on a one-on-one basis in the course of a day?
(a) None
(b) At least once
(c) Twice
(d) More than two

8. How much time do you spend with your people in training and developing during the course of a week?
(a) None
(b) Less than an hour
(c) One to two hours
(d) Three hours or more

9. How often do you procrastinate—put off making decisions in the course of a day?
(a) Fairly often
(b) Occasionally
(c) Seldom
(d) I don’t

10. How many times do you handle a piece of paper in the course of the day before doing something with it?
(a) Four times or more
(b) Three times
(c) Twice
(d) Only once

11. How often do you permit extensions of your own deadlines?
(a) Fairly often
(b) Occasionally
(c) Seldom
(d) Only when there’s a good reason

12. How do you approach detail work?
(a) Do it all myself—I love it
(b) I do most of it
(c) Delegate some of it
(d) Delegate most of it

13. How often do you set, communicate, and review department and individual goals with your subordinates?

(a) Twice a year
(b) Quarterly
(c) Monthly
(d) Weekly

14. .How often do you prepare a “to do” list and set priorities?
(a) Monthly
(b) Bi-weekly
(c) Weekly
(d) Daily

15. How much of your work do you do because you “really want” to do it?

(a) About five percent
(b) Less than fifty percent
(c) Almost seventy five percent
(d) Almost all of it.

Your “Time Management Effectiveness Quotient”
Give yourself one point for each “a” answer, two points for each “b” answer, three points for each “c” answer, and four points for each “d” answer.

YOUR POINT TOTAL:
Evaluate Yourself According to the Following Scale:
Excellent: 55 – 60
Good: 45 – 54

Mediocre: 30 -44
Examine your time management to see how you can improve it.

Poor: 29 or below
Watch out! You are running out of time.

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