Book links

This post provides links to the web sources and exercises for the 10 Simple Steps book.



Section  1

www.ggat.org.uk

www.archivesnetworkwales.info

welshjournals.llgc.org.uk

www.strataflorida.org

www.mindtools.com/critpath.html


www.davidzinger.com


www.gallup.com/consulting/52/employee-engagement.aspx


Exercise 1


Section 2

Step 1

www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk/2/2trowel2.html


leicester.academia.edu/MattEdgeworth/Books/174815/Acts_of_discovery_an_ethnography_of_an_archaeological_excavation




Step 2


www.archaeologists.net


www.archaeologists.net/development/nos


10simplesteps.blogspot.com/2008/01/redesigning-pyramid-archaeological.html




Step 3


www.cafepress.com/buy/geek




Step 4


meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2007/10/07/should-we-take-off-those-training-wheels/


www.archaeologists.net/development/cpd






Step 6


www.archaeology.demon.co.uk


www.archaeologists.net/publications/archaeologist






Step 7


www.archaeologists.net/codes/ifa






Step 8


archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/



Step 9

www.cscs.uk.com


Step 10

www.archaeologists.net/practices/salary



Section 3

Email

http://www.drthomasjackson.com/

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/alright-fine-ill-add-a-disclaimer-to-my-emails

http://inboxzero.com/


Getting Things Done

www.davidco.com/


Time management

Exercise 2


360 degree evaluation

 "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments".

Exercise 3


Section 4

Exercise 4


Section 5

Quality systems

http://www.prince-officialsite.com/

http://www.investorsinpeople.co.uk/Pages/Home.aspx

http://www.bsigroup.com/en/assessment-and-certification-services/management-systems/standards-and-schemes/iso-9001/

http://www.archaeologists.net/regulation/organisations

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/professional/training-and-skills/training-schemes/short-courses/project-management-using-morphe/


PRINCE2

http://www.prince2.org.uk/home/home.asp

www.english-heritage.org.uk/professional/training-and-skills/training-schemes/short-courses/project-management-using-morphe/

Project Officers and Project Managers

http://10simplesteps.blogspot.com/2008/01/redesigning-pyramid-archaeological.html

http://www.personalitypathways.com/type_inventory.html

http://skepdic.com/myersb.html


Copyright

http://www.ipo.gov.uk/copy.htm

www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/overview.htm


savageminds.org/2007/12/19/an-open-access-case-study/

www.cla.co.uk/licences_available/library/


Commercial archaeology and the ethics of development

http://www.nuigalway.ie/faculties_departments/archaeology/documents/ronayne_wac.pdf

http://www.friendsofthornborough.org.uk/

http://www.rosetheatre.org.uk/discover/the-history/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7494474.stm


Recession

www.archaeologists.net/profession/recession


Skills gap

www.eastlothian.gov.uk/downloads/HBRGuidanceFinalDraft2.pdf

archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/greylit/index.cfm

www.wessexarch.co.uk/reports/66260/wickets-cherry-orchard-close




Management gurus and the 10 simple steps


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

http://www.leanenterprise.org.uk/

Quick fix - email pop-ups

Whenever I talk about time management, people's worst problem is email, which robs them of the ability to plan their own work and concentrate on completing it.  Sometimes this is unavoidable - a project manager will have to keep up with emails as they arrive in case one is time critical.  But often the messages are completely irrelevant, routine, or non-urgent, yet they will still have intruded upon the flow of thought.  Studies have shown that after such an interruption it is likely to take 5-10 minutes before the worker returns to the original task.

So how to fix it?  One answer is to make good use of filters and folders so that important messages can be spotted immediately.  But the single simplest change you can make is to notifications.  The defaults for Microsoft Outlook were devised at a time when email traffic was rare and messages were important, so a window pops up to say a new message has arrived; in such circumstances it takes an iron will to deliberately leave the message unread while you finish the sentence you were typing.  It doesn't have to be this way.  Under Outlook > Tools > Options > Email options > Advanced options, it is the work of a few seconds to change the notification to something less distracting, like an envelope on the task bar.

Making this one simple change will give you back the feeling that you can control the way you use your time to best advantage.