Ivano-Frankivsk JSC hosts time management training for student journalists

The Ivano-Frankivsk Journalists’ Solidarity Center (JSC) hosted a time-management training for student journalists from King Danylo University’s journalism, advertising, and public relations department.

The training, called Time Management: The Art Of Time Management, was conducted by Vira Ilyina, a displaced media woman from Kramatorsk. According to her, people became interested in time planning more than two thousand years ago.

“Seneca was the first to talk about time,” the speaker continued. “He suggested dividing it into bad and good: the one used either effectively or ineffectively.”

Seneca’s ideas were referred to again during the industrial revolution when there was a need for increased efficiency of employees’ work.

“It was in the 18^th century that the topic of effective use of working time was raised. At the same time, the “80/20″ principle was formed: 20% of organized actions give 80% of the result and vice versa,” Vira said.

They started discussing time management in its modern sense at the end of the 1980s. According to the observations of the media woman, many books began to appear then, and universities and institutes opened time management departments.

For effective time management, the speaker advises:

– to not make your plans tight;

– to concentrate not on the plan itself but on the planning process because it will help to identify the problem;

– and to set preferences. For this, one can use the Eisenhower matrix (its essence is to sort tasks based on the importance/urgency criteria).

Call the Ivano-Frankivsk JSC by dialing 066 677 0726 (Viktoria Plakhta, the Ivano-Frankivsk JSC coordinator). The Center’s address is 25 Sichovykh Strilitsiv Street.

As earlier reported, the Journalists’ Solidarity Centers is an initiative of the NUJU implemented with the support of the International and European Federations of Journalists and UNESCO. The initiative is designated to help media representatives working in Ukraine during the war. The Centers operate in Kyiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi, Zaporizhzhia, and Dnipro and provide journalists with organizational, technical, legal, psychological, and other types of assistance.

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