Time Management in the Workplace
Are you concerned about your time management in the workplace? Poor control of time can be an unhealthy source of stress.
I have seen many situations where managers work long
hours, believing that they are doing the best for their business.
Yet in many cases, these are the managers who miss deadlines,
forget meetings and can be irritable with their work colleagues.
Learn to recognise the difference between being efficient and effective.
Efficient managers do the job right. Effective managers do the right job.
Do you hang on to tasks because you like them? Because you think its quicker to do it yourself? Because you have always done it?
Research shows that the most effective managers spend their time on high value tasks.
Learn the difference between working smarter and not harder.
My time management in the workplace was very poor when I first started work. Here are the 3 rules I learned which made the most positive impact in getting back control of my time:
√ Don't start a job unless you can finish it.. Divide your day into half hour blocks and plan ahead. I was forever starting tasks, and then putting them into the pending tray once the going got tough. When I picked a task up again, it took me ages to get back to the point where I had left it. Now, if time is limited, I tackle smaller tasks that I know I can finish.
√ Value your time.. How much do you get paid an hour? can you delegate what you do to someone at a lower rate of pay, freeing you up to do what you do best? Does it make more sense to give some of your tasks to someone else?
√ Take control of your time wasters.. Ineffective meetings, constant emails and phone calls, people dropping in unexpectedly. Time wasters can have a major impact on your time management in the workplace. Take three days in a typical week and analyse where your time goes, every 30 minutes. This will be a real eye opener. Focus in on what is wasting your time and resolve to do something about it.
Download the Time Management Skills Audio Guide and Workbook to hear the key concerns people have around time management and time management strategies for dealing with them. The companion workbook contains a wide range of time management worksheets, logs and other useful information.
To help you commit to change, click on The Importance of Time Management.
For practical tips and advice, click on Time Management Techniques.
Click on Time Wasters to look at where your time goes and how to make the most of your time.
Click on Effective Meetings for practical steps you can take to improve meeting etiquette in your business. Includes sample meeting agenda templates and meeting minutes templates.
Discover six of our favourite Meeting Icebreakers to breathe new life into your meetings, or to get a new team off to a good start.
How to Run a Meeting highlights the pitfalls to avoid when conducting meetings and the most common reasons for meeting failure. Identifies the biggest obstacle to effective business meetings and how to overcome it.
And finally, do you have a specific time management question that you would like answered? Click here.
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