From Making Business Matter a presentation on '21 Time Management Techniques I Wish I’d KnownWhen I’d Started Working'

1. 21 Time Management Techniques
I Wish I’d Known
When I’d Started Working

2. World Class Violinists don’t
practice for 12 hours a day. They
do ‘determined practice’.
Do determined work. The rest of the time, don’t
work.

3. Multi-tasking is like chasing a
unicorn. A myth.
Know that you if do multi-task you do it with the
IQ of a 12 year old. Stop doing it.

4. Divide your salary by 2,000 hours.
This is how much you are worth
per hour.
Delegate, buy a service, or use a PA for any tasks
that cost less than this.

5. Some people ‘fell into’ their time
management system 20 years ago.
And have not changed it.
Make one improvement to your time
management system every now. And maybe one
next week too.

6. Strange how when we have tickets
to a concert our day is always
much more productive.
Maybe other days you could fool your brain to
thinking you have tickets.

7. Don’t write big tasks on your to do
list, like ‘Move house’. Write
‘Phone estate agent’.
We fear big tasks so just write the first task.

8. ‘Good Enough’.
Many of the tasks we do should be done this
way.

9. The days of people being
rewarded for staying late are
going.
People are started to be rewarded on results.
Maybe they were always just inefficient!

10. The smartest people are the ones
with the emptiest heads.
Have a means to capture what’s in your head
wherever you are.

11. Know the
Power of Discretionary Time.
When you are waiting for everyone to arrive at
the meeting get some real work done.

12. Outlook defaults meetings to 30
minutes and they get booked for
an hour.
Maybe 45 minutes should be the norm.

13. Start everyday with your goal.
Identify your life goal and work towards it daily.

14. When starting a big task set an
hour to remind you to look up.
Big tasks can have us with our head down
‘forever’. Track your progress. Look up.

15. Have a sheet of paper on your
desk titled ‘Distraction List’.
Write down anything that stops you focussing.

16. Put your to do list in your laptop
and shut the lid.
When you start the next day it will encourage
you to not start with your inbox.

17. Reward yourself by looking at
your emails.
The psychology tells that checking emails has
the same motivations as gambling. Do large
chunks of work and then check email.

18. ‘I work better under pressure’.
…is a myth. The real reason people do this is
because they don’t trust themselves to stop a
piece of work if they finish it early.

19. A KPI is a team target.
A KRA is an individual target.
What are your Key Results Areas?

20. Think of an email subject heading
like a newspaper headline.
When people sre scrolling through hundres of
emails you want yours to get their attention.

21. Engage, don’t attend,
Time Management Training
that works!
Click here -
http://www.makingbusinessmatter.co.uk/trainin
g-courses/time-management-training/