Tips for Managing Time
Time is a resource that is easily lost or wasted.
How to address Time Wasters:
- Analyse where you spend your time, make a log and study the results
- Identify the factors that waste your time
- Systems and Procedures
- Other people
- Yourself
- Seek ways to eliminate unnecessary activities
- Delegate / off load
- Stop doing things
- Change the way you do things
- Don’t spend time on things you cannot change
- live with them
- Become Effective
- do things that deliver your results
- Become Efficient
- do things well using minimum effort and resources
- Learn to say No, nicely but firmly
- Ensure you commit proper levels of time to have rest and relaxation
Planning your working activities helps you to focus and prioritise:
- Identify your long term goals
- Set medium and short term objectives using the SMART criteria
- Decide on your priorities – those factors that deliver your objectives
- Compile a daily To Do List and prioritise your actions and set timescales
- Break big tasks into easily manageable elements
- Be ruthless with low priority tasks
- Stick with your plan, but change it if circumstances change