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Know How You Spend Your Time
A
much overlooked element in management training is time
management. Sure, most leadership development programs touch
on
it, but the facts are that most managers are not good at it.
We
can only surmise that time management training is not working.
We
want to make time management simple for you. Don’t concern
yourself right now with complex programs that teach you how to juggle A
priorities, B priorities, urgent vs. non-urgent, strategic vs.
non-strategic, etc. We can talk about those things
later.
The single most
important thing you must do to better manage your time is to really KNOW HOW YOU SPEND IT!
Sounds
pretty simple doesn’t it? It is, except so few managers
understand it. Just the other day we were working with a
management team helping them find the time needed to do the most
important things. We asked each of them to tell us
how they
currently spend their time. This was a very difficult
question to
answer for every one of them.
It
is not because they were not smart. All of them were very
bright
accomplished leaders. But, we all get going so fast that we
lose
any sense of what we are actually doing. You end your day and
have no clear sense of what you actually did.
Until
you get a full understanding of how you spend your time you will never
manage it well. Slow down. For the next week write
down
everything you do and how much time it takes. Review what you
have done with your time. Are you doing the things you want
to
do? We’ll bet not.
Armed
with this new knowledge of how you actually spend your time start
making the necessary changes that will allow you to spend more time on
the most important things.
This is hard to
do at first, but keep at it. It gets easier the more you do
it.
Real time
management is about taking control of your time. You cannot
control it if you do not understand it.
About
the authors:
Rob Linn and
Rich Ottaviano have over 50 years of combined business expertise.
Some of their clients include Microsoft, Dole Foods, Nissan
Motors, Washington Mutual, Mount Sinai Medical Center/Miami Heart
Institute, Hoag Hospital, Hawaii Pacific Health, and 100’s of others in
many different industries.
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