Time Management for Department Chairs
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (884 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0470769017 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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Written by a seasoned academic chair, the author offers practical ideas and strategic advice about how to increase your day-to-day effectiveness (and sanity) by using proven approaches to managing expectations, organizing tasks, running meetings, monitoring communication, controlling calendars, avoiding interruptions, containing crises, and everything else in between. This book is a life saver!"—Walter Gmelch, dean, University of San Francisco. "Department chairs who have asked themselves the question 'Who knows where the time goes' should ask Christian Hansen for the answer. His book, Time Management for Department Chairs, will help chairs maximize the investment of their most important resources—their time, focus, and energy."—Don Chu, author, The Department Chair Primer"Department chairs take note: Hansen's Time Management for Department Chairs can change your life in just three hours. If you want to learn how to strike a better work-life bal
His book, Time Management for Department Chairs, will help chairs maximize the investment of their most important resources--their time, focus, and energy."--Don Chu, author, The Department Chair Primer "Department chairs take note: Hansen's Time Management for Department Chairs can change your life in just three hours. Written by a seasoned academic chair, the author offers practical ideas and strategic advice about how to increase your day-to-day effectiveness (and sanity) by using proven approaches to managing expectations, organizing tasks, running meetings, monitoring communication, controlling calendars, avoiding interruptions, containing crises, and everything else in between. This book is a life saver!"--Walter Gmelch, dean
"Minimally useful" according to rhet_prof. I wanted to find this text useful, but other than some personal anecdotes and lots of advice to have your "staff" do things for you, it wasn't really that helpful. I could have cobbled most of these strategies together myself (and I have). The book seems to be more of a passion project for Dr. Hansen. The font is large, and the text is short. It might serve as a good in. A Valuable Resource HigherEd 2010 A hands-on practical approach to time management with a variety of organizational ideas. Very useful techniques that can be implemented within the workplace. Christian Hansen has many years of experience and his valuable expertise is stated through many examples used in his book. This book is a great addition to any department chair's library as it a wonderful resource . Our dean bought "Time Management for Department Chairs" for all Our dean bought "Time Management for Department Chairs" for all of his chairs. I found this book extremely helpful and practical. As a result of reading it, I have made a number of changes in the way I do things, and these changes, most of which are quite small, have improved my chairing, reduced my stress, and freed up time. The clear sense of priorities in the book ma
During the last eight years, he has focused much of his research on time management.. Christian Hansen, Ph.D., is associate dean of computing and engineering sciences and former department chair at Eastern Washington University