My Best Top Twenty Manager Time Management Tips
There are 1440 minutes in everyday. Here are some tips to ensure you invest them wisely.
- Maintain an effective daily planning system - Give your word and keep it.
- Set challenging Goals and Rewards – build your Self-Esteem and savior your results.
- Prioritize most difficult tasks first - begin early on difficult and unpleasant tasks.
- Do not procrastinate - focus on the possibilities of getting on with things. Delaying progress increases the chance for errors, reduces recovery time, and increases stress.
- Benchmark your progress towards completion - you cannot manage what you cannot measure.
- Plan for and anticipate interruptions - interruptions are why you are here.
- Eliminate time wasters - unimportant tasks rob energy and kills enthusiasms.
- Ask yourself if this is a task/project that can be delegated – delegate if at all possible.
- Make the best decisions possible, as soon as possible - then clearly document, and communicate your decisions. Poor communications leads to errors and threatens morale.
- Designate a proper times to do you work effectively – but not at home.
- Do it right, the first time - redoing things weakens self-motivation.
- Communicate your schedule and priorities to your staff/team - Say what is important and why, ask for their support.
- Handle paper only once. If you touch it, act on it - Delegate it, Dump it or Do it, when you touch it.
- Learn to use the technology available—it is the key to long-term productivity and quality.
- Know you practical limits of work quantity and quality. Do not push beyond your limit - this can lead to burnout.
- Evaluate areas for self-improvement and continued learning - staying the same leads to stagnation.
- Evaluate your staff/team members - look for their contributions and show your appreciation, this builds self-motivation and gets everyone’s engines roaring. Look for areas that need attention now and develop that skill in your employees/team members.
- Plan for effective meetings - share agendas, purpose of meeting, participation requirements, and anticipated results.
- Other tips for meetings - take notes, ask questions, keep an open mind, be ready to accept meaningful change and take immediate action on your assignments.
- Make time for yourself - reward yourself for effectively managing your time.
| Last Week's Poll Results | |
| If you won a big lottery, what would you do? | |
| Answer | Response |
| Ratio | |
|
The same thing |
31% |
|
I would find a new career |
23% |
|
I would quit in a heartbeat and think about what comes next |
0% |
|
I would retire and take care of family, friends and others |
38% |
|
I would retire and just relax and enjoy life |
8% |
| Total | 100% |
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