Managing your time
How many of us are finding ourselves short of time, especially around the holiday period. Concentrating on identifying your priorities helps you clarify what is possible when you are busy. It will help you identify any issues where time will cause you a problem and help you to consider an appropriate course of action.
When considering time management issues you need to consider:
What is a ‘must do’ activity
What is a ‘nice to do’ activity
You also need to consider where an activity sits into the 4 quadrants (a classic 2×2 management type box) – this was developed by management guru Stephen Covey
You should ideally plan for main parts of your work and activities to be in the Quadrant 2 – so the workload never becomes urgent – example being I do my Christmas shopping through the year. It is important, but I don’t want it to become urgent. I write my christmas cards in October.
Then items in Quadrant 1 will be last minute changes beyond your control.
Activities in Quadrant 3 are not important, but because people feel they are urgent can get caught up working in these areas – which is often caused by distractions. They key here is to say no! A classic example of time being taken up in Quadrant 3 is people checking their emails regularly and thinking they need to response immediately.
Activities in Quadrant 4 – are not even worth doing so why are they on your job list anyway!
I recommend people write a “to do list” and then consider which 4 Quadrants they appear in – this will help you to manage your time and focus on the activities that really matter.
Good luck with your time management over this Christmas period, and hopefully 2013 can be a profitable, successful year for businesses.
– See more at: https://www.winmarketing.co.uk/managing-your-time.html#sthash.bZQ9xWaS.dpuf
How many of us are finding ourselves short of time, especially around the holiday period. Concentrating on identifying your priorities helps you clarify what is possible when you are busy. It will help you identify any issues where time will cause you a problem and help you to consider an appropriate course of action.
When considering time management issues you need to consider:
What is a ‘must do’ activity
What is a ‘nice to do’ activity
You also need to consider where an activity sits into the 4 quadrants (a classic 2×2 management type box) – this was developed by management guru Stephen Covey
You should ideally plan for main parts of your work and activities to be in the Quadrant 2 – so the workload never becomes urgent – example being I do my Christmas shopping through the year. It is important, but I don’t want it to become urgent. I write my christmas cards in October.
Then items in Quadrant 1 will be last minute changes beyond your control.
Activities in Quadrant 3 are not important, but because people feel they are urgent can get caught up working in these areas – which is often caused by distractions. They key here is to say no! A classic example of time being taken up in Quadrant 3 is people checking their emails regularly and thinking they need to response immediately.
Activities in Quadrant 4 – are not even worth doing so why are they on your job list anyway!
I recommend people write a “to do list” and then consider which 4 Quadrants they appear in – this will help you to manage your time and focus on the activities that really matter.
Good luck with your time management over this Christmas period, and hopefully 2013 can be a profitable, successful year for businesses.
– See more at: https://www.winmarketing.co.uk/managing-your-time.html#sthash.bZQ9xWaS.dpuf
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