101: Managing Time
While you may have a calendar, to-do lists and set priorities, it's possible you look up and discover it's already 5 o'clock — and you aren't quite sure what got accomplished — way too often. Even the best time managers can use additional tips to banish time bandits; and different kinds of time-management advice can work better with different kinds of work. Here are three ways to build more results into your week.
Visualize your result. Before you jump on a conference call or Skype meeting, decide what result you want from the interaction. This concept is outlined at Entrepreneur.com by Joe Mathews, Don Debolt and Deb Percival. “Decide what result you want to attain … Know what success looks like before you start,” the article states. “Take five minutes after each call and activity to determine whether your desired result was achieved. If not, what was missing?” The next step is figuring out how to achieve that result next time.
Keep the revenue in sight. This is another way of saying, “Keep your priorities in line,” but with a special consideration on the money to be made. Jessica Kleiman at Forbes.com says to hone in on whatever will benefit your business most; the rest can wait. “We live in an age of urgency, where everything seems important and people are looking for instant gratification,” she writes. Recognize this for what it is.
Package together related tasks. If you are creating marketing videos, for example, and you have three such assignments to complete, do them all at once, advises CreativityPost.com's Jordan Bates. “Do them consecutively … Different tasks demand different types of thinking, so it makes sense to allow your mind to continue to flow with its current zone rather than switching unnecessarily to something that's going to require you to re-orient,” she says.
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