Introduction To understand the best ways to manage myself as a potential team leader, I examined the relationship between time and stress management. I took a hard look at how I manage my time by keeping a time log and interviewing colleagues in a questionnaire, to explore the importance of time management and its relationship to the causes and symptoms of stress. My overall goal is to minimize stress and become a more effective leader. Know how to use effective personal time management to achieve team goals. Effective time management is essential to achieving team goals related to productivity, goals, profit and reputation, resulting in reduced stress. levels. Good time management means making the most of your time to become more efficient and productive (Demien Kasier 2014). This is important as one individual's workload will affect others. As a Romec engineer and aspiring team leader, effective time management will enable me to complete tasks, achieve targets set by Royal Mail, therefore increasing profits. Achieving goals would give superiors (Field Service Manager FSM) more time as they will not focus on handling failures. There would also be a knock-on effect for the team, for example: Fig 11.1 Colleagues do not take on backlog of work. 1.2 Staff must not face prolonged and excessive workloads. 1.3 Managers (at all levels) have free time to address more important issues. 1.4 Romec objectives achieved.1.5 Romec profits increased.1.6 Customer satisfaction increased.1.7 Romec reputation improved, with positive effects on future contracts.An example of effective time management was highlighted by an FSM, in reference to the amount of emails. “If you answered everything as it came to you, you would be overwhelmed, you need to be able to ... middle of paper ...... ng6.5 Legal6.6 Health6.7 Education Support outside of work can be accessed from the Service National Health Service provides online advice and telephone lines 24/7, and GPs can diagnose and recommend medications/treatments. Samaritans can support anyone dealing with stress in their lives by talking about problems on your phone line. Conclusion By researching time and stress management techniques, questioning colleagues, and examining how I conduct my time at work, I will be able to avoid becoming overwhelmed by stress with a clearer priority system (urgent/important matrix) and by delegating or discarding tasks that don't require my time to complete, I will keep my stress levels low. Furthermore, using relaxation to curb the effects of stress and knowing where support can be accessed will allow me to become an effective team leader within Romec.