When I was Director of Continuing Education at another College in New York in the mid-1990s, I arranged several on-campus and corporate on-site Time Management non-credit training courses. I still have one of the books that was used in the course, and it has useful forms, self-evaluations, checklists, goal sheets, review questions, schedules, diagrams, and practical concepts about this topic. The title is Time Management by Marc Mancini, and I see there is an e-book version available online. It may be considered a bit dated by some people today, but nevertheless it could be useful. Good luck with your research. 

http://www.ebooks.com/299990/time-management/mancini-marc/

The "Eisenhower Matrix", credited to US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, is one of the simplest tools with which to manage time. Whenever confronted with something that needs to be done, one should ask two questions: First, is the task important? Second, is it urgent? From this, tasks end up in one of four categories: (i) Urgent and Important; (ii) Not Urgent and Important; (iii) Urgent and Not Important; or (iv) Not Urgent and Not Important.

But time management should be a function of what it is that wastes time; and meetings surely explain much of that. Conducting Effective Meetings, available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/266477081_Conducting_Effective_Meetings, suggests generic actions that can be taken before, during, and after meetings to make them more effective. When the Twain Meet, a simple presentation available at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277013229_When_The_Twain_Meet, summarizes that article.

Article Conducting Effective Meetings

Presentation When The Twain Meet

An enormous amount of time is wasted in unfocused meetings in todays organisations. Using your time right and using tools for coordination is an important challenge. Meetings are important, but not always appropriate and useful. Patrick Lencioni  wrote an interesting and engaging book about this in 2004; Death by Meeting.

Twenty five years ago I learnt a useful tool for time management by Professor Tor Dahl of the University of Minnesota; The five principles of freeing resources. The principles can be used in research and in everyday life;

1. What is creating waiting time? (Reducing waiting time)

2. What do you do that nobody should be doing? (Eliminating) 

3. What do you do that others could be doing? (Delegating)

4. What can be planned better (Planning)

5. What can be executed better (Executing/performing)

These simple principles can help structure our daily life in work and elsewhere.

I personally like to use software called ( tooledo ) from ( www.toodledo.com )

it can be used by Laptop or mobile phone.

you can define tasks, subtasks

Enjoy

ABC Analysis

ABC analysis is a concept that predicts that 80 percent of your time will be spent on only 20 percent of your problems (Bittel and Newstrom, 1990). 80 percent of your problems will account for only 20 percent of your losses or profits (costs or benefits) and 20 percent of your problems will account for 80 percent of your losses or profits (costs or benefits). Alternatively the analysis is called the 20/80 syndrome. The ABC analysis suggests that the 20 percent of your problems that you work on should be rated as class A-the most important ones. They are top-priority items/activities which have pressing deadlines. Class B includes items that are not important than A items. So B items are averagely important and they have not pressing deadlines. Class C includes items that are relatively unimportant and can be set aside perhaps indefinitely (Catt and Miller, 1991).

You must do the things in the class A first. Then you must do the things in class B. After doing the A class items and then the B class items, if you have still time, then you can do the C class items.

Time Log

This is a written account, which describes how time is spent. It shows time intervals occurred for each activity, activities performed, initiated by whom, priority and results or comments. It is helpful to keep a time log for a three-or four-day period to recognize how time is actually used (Catt and Miller, 1991). An example is given in Exhibit 9.4. You are advised to prepare a time log for a week starting from tomorrow. Review the log for the week and answer the following questions:

 i.                    Are you allocating times appropriately?

ii.                  Are there wasters? Can they be eliminated?

iii.                Are there activities that I cannot control?

iv.                Are there activities that I can control?

v.                  Are there any activities that I can delegate?

vi.                What to do enhancing time management?

 To-do Lists

A to-do list shows things that you have to do for a certain point of time. You can prepare a to-do list for a day. Then you will have to prepare it daily. You may forget appointments, meetings, deadlines etc owing to the hectic situations. Before you forget, it is better to write down in to-do lists. For the purpose, a notepad, calendar, diary, professionally prepared time organizer, or even a piece of paper can be used. It is important to keep the lists in a handy (nearby and convenient) place. Some well-organized people plan their to-do list in their head and as they move through the day, they keep working the list (DuBrin, 2000).

Three “ates”

Charles J. Federber (as in Catt and Miller, 1991) observes that the bottom line for time management involves three “ates’: eliminate, insulate, and concentrate.

Eliminate unnecessary activities.

Insulate yourself to maximize time usage that can be controlled.

Concentrate on the most important priorities.

I took a look at all your suggestions (books, lectures and tips).

From my side, I'm implementing some tips in my daily working activities and they are working well. 

At the beginning of my experiment, I started to make a list of all the activities to be completed during my working week.

Then I prepared a table of 3 columns, given them a different priority: green -> things not urgent/I can postpone, red -> things urgent/to do ASAP; yellow -> in the middle/not urgent but almost. I populated the table with the action on the base of their priority. When an action was completed, I crossed it out by drawing a line through it. I moved on to the next action. At the end of the week, I could go down my list and see how many actions I completed and how many of them were left for the next week. 

Now, the process is automatic and completely integrated in my working days. I have much more control on my time, I know how much time I need to complete an action and which activities need to be prioritized, their urgency. So at the end of the week I feel satisfied because I target the energies towards finishing the most important things and then less stressed. 

I also implemented the "pomodoro technique", even if it doesn’t work in all the occasions. If I work in the open space with other colleagues who interrupt me every 5 minutes, it’s more difficult to keep focus on the activity. I find it really useful when I have to analyze some data or to study some document, but in a separated room.

Then, I found very interesting this video. Enjoy it!

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/219553

I suggest for you my best article of William Oncken, Jr.Donald L. Wass in harvard business review, titled "Management Time: Who’s Got the Monkey?" and commented by Stephen Covey

its an amazing article i recommend you to read it

good luck

here you are the article link/

https://hbr.org/1999/11/management-time-whos-got-the-monkey

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