Time Management Download

What You Will Learn:

Personal Effectiveness is all about doing the right thing at the right time, focussing on what’s important and ditching what isn’t. In this Chapter, we will be covering some simple aspects of running a business that will add real value to it:

• What you should be spending your time on
• Which activities create the most value to your business
• How to make some simple measurements that can make a huge difference to the performance of your business.

Why You Need to Learn

This: How you spend your time is paramount to the success of you business; knowing what your team are spending their time on, and comfort in the knowledge that it is the right thing will make your business highly effective.

Working hard will not create a successful business, spending your time on the most effective activities will.

Results:

You will see how working differently will make the most impact on your business success. Understanding your most effective activities involves a key thinking shift. Making this shift will be the single most significant thing you do to move towards Business Class and is the real beginning.

What You Will Learn:

Prioritizing is all about using your time effectively so, in this Chapter, we will be looking at:

• Time Management Statistics
• Time Management Matrix - Four Quadrants
• 80/20 rule
• Finding the time to work on your business
• Chunking your time
• ABC analysis

Why You Need to Learn This:

Time is the enemy of every businessman or woman. Spending your business time in the most effective way is a key success factor of every successful business. It also enables you to have more time outside of your business and to use it wisely.

Businesses that have a disciplined time effectiveness policy become great businesses. This is not about running a business as a tyrant or working your team into the ground, it’s about developing a well organised, focused and disciplined ship deploying the right people who wish to work towards the goals of the business.

Results:

Implement the methods explained in this Chapter and you can find up to 2 hours a day; that’s a whole day a week you can spend working on your business. It’s this time that will help you work towards achieving Business Class.