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Covey’s Time Management Matrix

Urgent Not Urgent


Important
• Crises • Prevention
• Pressing problems • Relationship
• Deadlines building
• Recognition of new
opportunities
• Planning
• Recreation

Not Important
• Interruptions • Trivia
• Some calls & email • Gossip
• Some meetings • Time wasting
• Only doing the easy
bits
• Fixing someone
else’s poor planning
crisis

Urgent Not Urgent


Important Need to deal with these as Need to plan for these
soon as possible

Not Important Check your schedule to see Try to minimize these


if you can eliminate some of distractions
these

TUDENT

UPPORT

ERVICES

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Acknowledgement: Stephen Covey -
7 Habits of Highly Effective People 1994

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