Does time management improve performance, or well-being?
We train time management to gain efficiency. What if its main measured benefit lies elsewhere?
The reference synthesis
Brad Aeon, Aïda Faber and Alexandra Panaccio (2021, PLOS ONE) pool over 150 studies: time management is moderately related to job performance and more strongly to well-being and life satisfaction.
Data limits
Most studies use self-reports measured at one time; causality remains uncertain.
What this implies
Framing time management purely as productivity may underestimate its main benefit: a sense of control over one's work. (our executive and employee training programmes)
The limit of common practice
Judging training solely by tasks completed while ignoring felt workload.
A practical check in Geneva
Before and six weeks after a prioritisation effort, measure priority tasks completed and sense of control on a simple scale. The two need not move together. To go further: explore the Time Management & Prioritisation training in Geneva, or browse our executive and employee training programmes in Switzerland.
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