Time Management Matrix Pdf
Covey’s Four Quadrants for time management The Covey time management grid is an effective method of organising your priorities. It differentiates between activities that are important and those that are urgent. Important activities have an outcome that leads to the achievement of your goals, whether these are professional or personal. In the Eisenhower Matrix, activities are placed into four quadrants: Important and Urgent, Important and Not Urgent, Not Important and Urgent, and Not Important and Not Urgent. To optimize your time, the items in each quadrant should be attended to in the following order: Blank Eisenhower Matrix Template (Time Management Matrix).
- Quadrant 4 – Not Urgent And Not Important. A useful chart is a daily time management activities chart combined with a priority matrix. The beauty of the priority matrix is that a lot of these tasks can be interchanged depending on the seasons of your life.
- How do you manage your time? Here is a tool to help you think about how you're spending your time, based on four quadrants. Click here to access.
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Quadrant Time Management System
Katherine McCulloch
Associate Director for Administration