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While we’re on the subject of calendars, I thought I’d share with you an excellent post from HR World that I stumbled on last week.
This article offers a really useful list of time management tips. I couldn’t have done a better job myself, so they should get the credit!
Here’s an excerpt, but make sure you check out the post in its entirety…
Time management is a skill we learned in school, but many people forget it as they get older and more “experienced.” We become creatures of habit, and bad habits creep in among the good ones. If you find time flying by without accomplishing all that you should, you need to identify how you’re wasting minutes and re-establish good time-management skills.
Regain control of your time and improve your productivity with these tips.
1. Begin with a time diary, recording exactly how you spend your time now. You will be surprised to find how much time you’ve been wasting. But don’t feel guilty. Be delighted with “found” time that you can put to better use.
2. Use your waiting time productively. We all spend a great deal of time waiting for appointments, the start of meetings, on hold on the phone and even for television commercials to end. Have some task available to fill these idle minutes. They add up to an impressive portion of each day.
3. Manage your email. Like a desk cluttered with paper that keeps getting shuffled around to no useful purpose, an email inbox can become a time pit. Create folders and move email to them as it arrives. Some email may contain reference material; print it out. Move time-sensitive items to an “action” folder. Add appointments to your calendar, and delete what does not require action.
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I agree that most people do not know where there time goes. Ask someone today what they did last Friday. Most can’t answer straight away! In our coaching programs we get clients to track their time for 2 weeks. They get some amazing insights to where there time is going. Almost always people are surprised where they are spending their time. You can download a copy of the time tracking from from my website time management resources page.
Erek,interesting find. But it seems to me that a person who is organized enough to actually put together a time diary must already be fairly organized.
@Lucas: Putting together a time diary doesn’t necessarily have to take much in terms of organizational skills, but your point is well taken. It does take a fair amount of discipline! Thanks for the comment.
Erek