Time management tips

• As you can see from the other time management pages, it's not just a matter of having too much to do in too little time.
• It is usually more complex than this and we are often partly the cause of our own problem by the way we manage (or don't manage).

Key steps to better time management

• Religiously block off a regular period of time - at least weekly to review your priorities in light of shifting strategic imperatives.
• Start thinking more strategically about yourself - how you invest your personal resources to ensure that you focus your energies where you can add the most value.
• Re-frame your role. Instead of being the one who takes every monkey on your back personally, position yourself differently:
  
  • Broker - knowing someone else who can do it.
  • Manager - not a doer, but a coordinator.
  • Coach - help others to think differently.
  • Facilitator, catalyst - link people to other resources.
  • Leader - show others the way forward.
  • Mentor - help others learn to work smarter.
  • Trainer - show others how to help themselves.
• Begin to base more of your confidence on process skills rather than content knowledge - enabling things to get done rather than doing them.
• Develop and practice your own constructive ways of saying no.
• Delegate constructively - sell the benefits to others of doing more for you.