How many times have you looked up at 4:00pm and wondered "What have I accomplished today? Talent Acquisition Professionals, and particularly those on the Corporate side have constant and competing demands on their time. This session will provide insight into those demands and how to manage your time so that the urgent does not overcome the important. The session will look at the psychology of time management, and provide an in depth look at some practical and tactical ways to overcome the major time drains that we all face.

1. Overcoming the
Urgent:
Time Management in Talent Acquisition
Presented by: Lucas Berg, CEO, Talent
Acquisition Concepts

2. Agenda
• The Causes of Time Drains
• Information overload
• Completion Bias
• A need for Love
• Psychology of time management
• Eisenhower Principal
• Time Perspective
• Practical and tactical ways to Take back your
Time
• Efficiency
• Effectiveness

3. Causes of Time Drain:
Information Overload
• Creation to 2003 = 1 exabyte (1,000,000,000,000,000,000
bytes) of data
• By 2018, more than 2.5 exabytes produced daily
• Radio, Television, Social Media, E-mails, Meetings, Phone
Calls, News Feeds

4. Causes of Time Drain:
Completion Bias
• Dopamine: A dab’ll do ya
• Multi-Tasking: It’s a Trap
MULTI-TASKING IS A TRAP
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MULTI-TASKING IS A TRAP
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5. Causes of Time Drain:
The Need for Love
• Need for acceptance
• Society demands we seek love

6. Priority
Matrix

7. Priority
Matrix

8. Time Perspective
• Past positive-oriented
• Past negative-oriented
• Present hedonistic-oriented
• Present fatalistic-oriented
• Future-oriented
• Transcendental-future-oriented

9. 1. Make an Achievement List

10. 2. A Place for
Everything and
Everything in it’s
Place

11. 3. Prioritize Ruthlessly

12. 4. Monotask

13. 5. Keep a Quick-Hit
List

14. 6. Eat the
Elephant

15. 7. Apply the
Pareto Principal

16. 8. Allocate your Best Time to Important Tasks

17. 9. Pay
Yourself First
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18. 10. Do it Now

19. 11. Track your
Time

20. 12. Set
Deadlines

21. 13. Make your
bed

22. 14. Schedule Quiet Time

23. 15. Worry is Interest
Paid before it’s Due

24. 15 Ways to be
Effective with
your Time
1. Make an
Achievement List
2. A Place for
Everything and
Everything in it’s
Place
3. Prioritize
Ruthlessly
4. Monotask
5. Keep a Quick-hit
List
6. Eat the Elephant
7. Apply the Pareto
Principle
8. Allocate your
BestTime to
Important Tasks
9. Pay Yourself First
10. Do it Now
11. Track your Time
12. Set Deadlines
13. Make your Bed
14. Schedule Quiet
Time
15. Worry is Interest
Paid Before it’s
Due

25. 1. Meet at the end of the day

26. 2. Stand Up

27. 3. Cancel

28. 4. Have a
Plan and
Stick to it

29. 5. Have a recorder deliver minutes and follow up

30. 6.
Lombardi
Time

31. 7. Insist
on input

32. 8. Be the 300

33. 9. Go to them

34. 10. Avoid overscheduling
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35. 11. Screen
and filter

36. 12. Find a
quiet place

37. 13. Touch it
once

38. 14. Keep it clean

39. 14. Delegate

40. 15 ways to be
Efficient with
your Time
1. Meet at the end
of the day
2. Stand up
3. Cancel
4. Have a plan and
stick to it
5. Have a recorder
deliver minutes
and follow up
6. Lombardi time
7. Insist on input
8. Be the 300
9. Go to them
10. Avoid
overscheduling
11. Screen and filter
12. Find a quiet place
13. Touch it once
14. Keep it clean
15. Delegate

41. Questions?
Lucas S. Berg
CEO | Talent Acquisition Concepts
306 Commerce Street | Unit 6 | Occoquan, VA 22125
lberg@talentacquisitionconcepts.com
Office +1-703-344-2777
Mobile +1-571-414-7444
www.talentacquisitionconcepts.com