If one of your New Year’s resolutions is to improve your time management skills, then Wharton management professor Michael Parke can help. One is called TMP, which stands for time management planning, and the other is CP, which stands for contingency planning. Michael Parke: Time management planning is really about putting a to-do list together, writing out your tasks, prioritizing those tasks, and then scheduling. I think everyone has some familiarity with time management planning. The second part of that process is to consider what type of day you’re going to have.