FOREIGN TRADE UNIVERSITYINTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS REPORT INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIME MANAGEMENT SOLUTIONS FOR FTU FRESHMEN IN COVID-19 EPIDEMIC Hanoi, March 2020... FTU Freshm
Have a To-Do “List”
Having a list is always a time saver A list keeps students focused, motivated and also let them see - and monitor - their progress This will help students prioritize projects and provide a structure to help keep him or her on track to meet due dates.
A To-Do “list” is not only a list in the traditional way, but students can apply different types of listings and their creativity as long as the list shows them the tasks need doing For example: download by : skknchat@gmail.com
Figure 1: A traditional To-Do list
Figure 2: A To-Do mind map
Figure 3: Eisenhower Box by Dwight D Eisenhower
The essential thing is not how well-made or creative the list is but rather how well one can accomplish the tasks The list is only useful when the users take it as a reminder and stick to it Make sure you don’t put the most difficult tasks at the bottom and keep mornings for MITs - most important tasks. download by : skknchat@gmail.com
Eliminate Distractions
Since the bad condition of the Covid-19 epidemic, students now study at home online Among cell phones, social media, and friends, there are a lot of other activities that can distract students from their school work What they should do is to:
Determine what is significant and what deserves their time based on importance and urgency.
Remove non-essential tasks/activities to spend more time on genuinely important things.
Take distracting things such as phones, food/snacks away, shut your door, turn the television off.
Achieve a healthy balance
Students should strike a balance between rest, relaxation and school work, self-study It can’t be all work and no play During the time of Covid-19 epidemic; however, the situation can be opposite: It can’t be all play and no work The tip is taking short breaks.
Smart time management isn’t always about doing something or the other It also emphasizes on the fact that little breaks after an hour or so can take your productivity to another level.
Get enough sleep
Enough sleep is about 8-10 hours Now that students study from home, some of them have the habit of sleeping in or even spend half of day sleeping The difference between a productive and a horribly disorganized day can be just an extra hour or two of sleep.
Go to sleep before mid-night is also important It can be because of staying up late, the next day is full of tiredness.
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Time management techniques for students during the outbreak of Covid-19: 28 1 The 4D system
Besides the above time management tips, there are some time management techniques that will make students succeed in managing time Embracing time management techniques is not about grasping a lot of tasks into a day but to simplify how to work to do things better.
Simply put, 4D refers to Delete, Delegate, Defer, and Do:
Delete (Drop): There are always some unnecessary tasks that could be simply deleted from To-Do list.
Delegate: Reach out for help when it isn’t working This is what school counselors, resource personnel and friends are for!
Defer: Not everything is supposed to be done immediately If there is something could be done later and has no serious repercussions, defer it.
Do: If there is something important to do and there is the time to do it, get it done there and then.
The 18 Minutes approach (Peter Bregman, 2011) allows students to reclaim their days from distractions and focus time on things that are important.
Five minutes in the morning: Sit down and think about what they need to do today to make it successful Then write those things down and schedule them into a To-Do list.
One minute per hour: Refocus Set an alarm every hour and when it beeps,
“take a deep breath and ask yourself if you spent your last hour productively.”
Five minutes in the evening: Turn off the computer, phone and review how the day went.
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It is clear that the COVID-19 epidemic has exerted a great impact on students’ daily schedules, especially for those in the first year With the aim of helping those freshmen get through this hard time without hindering their academic performance and tipping the balance of their daily lives, we decided to conduct a study of time management which targets at FTU first-year students.
The research has raised students’ awareness of the precious and limited amount of time that they have and indicated how they use the amount of time makes all the difference to their lives Therefore, developing the time management skills is extremely important and necessary.
Responding to the increase in the need of acquiring time management skills during this period of quarantine, we have gone into analyzing the difference in the behaviors and habits of students arranging time before and after the outbreak of
COVID-19 epidemic According to the survey data, besides those having positive modifications, some of the students have wasted their time, in the other words, have not managed their time properly Therefore, we have found out some common reasons for both changes and proposed several effective solutions to these time management problems.
1 Time is precious as there are banks to store money but no bank for time is found.
2 Time management skill is crucial for a well-balanced life Its importance and usefulness lie in allowing people to accomplish more tasks faster with the same results or even better results.
3 Not only having improved students’ academic performances, but time management skill also has various positive effects on other aspects of life.
4 Some proposed tips to manage time: Have a to-do list