Manuel De Vits - Are you the Master of your own timing? Let’s talk about it

1. Are you the Master of
your own timing?
Let's talk about it
Manuel De Vits
Sales & Marketing coach
Valyman Consulting

2. € 86.400,-
What if a bank transfer everyday
.On your bank account
.Don't transfer to the next day
.Don't authorize to go below 0
Don't tell you how long it'll last
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

3. Time, an elastic notion?
What do we do with our time
internal com.-external com.-prepare our contacts-open &
read emails- administration-put order- fundamental tasks-
prepare meetings-meetings-breaks-moving-learning-
others
Time is by definition limited

4. Where are we loosing
our time?

5. 2 types
Me
Changing your priorities, not having priorities, do not plan
the priorities, wanting to do to much, non accomplished
tasks, looking for, not able to say no, procrastination, be
the fireman, Social Media, looking for perfection, scare to
fail, lack of knowledge,...............
Others
Occasional visitors, useless email, useless reports, ad
meetings, waiting for others, bad friends (phone-mail-
coleagues-boss), the "I just come say hello 😊

7. Working more effectively: a questioned
attitude & organization
R = M x 3K
Knowledge - Know how to execute - Know how to behave

8. The four D
D - delete
D - making it Done by someone else
D - doing it later
D - Doing it now

9. Doing it Later Doing it now
Delete
Make it done by
someone else
How to decide?
Emergency
Important
Not an emergency
Not important

10. Complete tasks & schedule
• What are we doing with what haven’t been done?
• What are we going to do tomorrow?
Analyzing & correcting

11. Communicate & work
in a structure way
Communicate well: Transaction —> Execution
Scheme of communication
SPOC —> Single Point Of Contact
Reduce the number of contact

12. Tips to create peace & limit stress
• deal with disrupters
• do one thing at the time & finished it
• Learn to say « No »: say when or who, but not « No »
alone
• Ask the people who bring problems to come also with a
solution
• Block disrupters
• be careful to the « hello »
• Ask to concentrate the questions
• Fell free to have free time
• Stop the notifications (phone, mail, …)
• Use smartly smartphone
• Don’t make yourself indispensable

13. • work with a clear scheme & do things at a fix moment
• never postpone annoying tasks
• determine goals for yourself
• fix a clear ending time for each rdv, tasks or meetings
• schedule often a clear « I’m not in the office »
• think before act
• Know what to do after each finished tasks
• take regularly pause but at non productive hours
• private meetings are also « meetings »
• Spread « good attitude »
• Take care about « perfection
• Fire the « cliff-watchers »
• Group some activities together

14. manuel@valymanconsult.eu
Twitter: @valymanconsult
LinkedIn: Manuel De Vits