How to become a Time Manager for Massive Success

Time is an invaluable resource for leaders, so working to become a masterful time manager is vital for success, both personally and professionally.

Powerhouse leaders understand that time management skills are essential for maximizing productivity, improving employee performance, achieving goals, and maintaining a healthy work-life blend.?

And, when those skills aren't practiced and utilized on a daily basis, it is their own lack of not managing it that is causing their stress, overwhelm, and frustration, not that others are requiring to much work to be done.

Stop the excuses and work to intentionally transform to a powerhouse time manager.

In the latest episode of Shedding the Corporate Bitch, I provide key strategies and techniques you can employ immediately to elevate your leadership and overall effectiveness. Here are a few:

1. Prioritize - Not everything on your to-do list is a priority, and there certainly isn’t multiple #1 priorities, therefore:

• Take time each morning to review your to-do’s and bravely claim your #1, #2, and #3 must do’s…and put everything else aside until you have completed those (or see the next tip).

2. Use the 4 D’s of Time Management Mastery - managers simply take on everything thrown at them and work frantically to get it done or dump tasks onto team members.

To ensure both you and your team are focus, confident, productive and effective in working through tasks, practice scanning your to-do list each morning and making a decision to Delegate, Delete, Delay, or Do.

• Delegate - Find the best person with the right skills to complete a task.
• Delete - not everything on your list should or needs to be on it and done. Simply delete it.
• Delay - Require realistic deadlines from anyone and everyone, and don't assume, “It has to be done now”. Then delay it as a priority.
• Do - you now have thoughtfully determined what you must do, and where it fits into the priority.

3. Plan and Set Goals: Successful leaders know that to simply ‘do’ versus having a purpose and an end goal laid out is a recipe for frustration and failure.

• Define the goals you have for yourself and your team, put an action plan to those goals, define deadlines and assignments, and be sure to communicate them clearly to those who you are dependent on to achieve them.
• Breakdown your major goals into bite size goals that will have you laser focused on the priority and next steps to taking action on them.

Don't walk into your day with a plan and a goal to be achieve. That's like going on a road trip across country without a may. You will get very lost, scared, frustrated, stressed out, and very overwhelmed.

4. Avoid Procrastination and Distractions: Procrastination is the enemy of productivity and sanity.

• Learn to identify the environment, situations, events, and even people that trigger you to get distracted or procrastinate from your work.?
• Establish boundaries, such as, set time blocks on your calendar, especially those shared calendars, when you cannot be disturbed, or use office hours for working specific team development work. Turn off technology and notifications. Even consider if music or the television is really a supportive companion or does it interfere with your focus and concentration.

Put real focus, attention and intention into eliminating distractions from your work environment and even your mindset, and you will find space, breath, and results. ?

Time Management is a skill that can be learned by anyone who is serious about being a powerhouse leader for their people, business, and selves.

It just takes attention and practice... which turns into massive riches of focus, clarity, energy, confidence, enthusiasm, productivity, effectiveness, efficiency, and sanity!

Unsure of how to do that, BOOK A CALL with me and let’s talk. www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall.