10 Ways to Improve Your Team’s Performance and Gain Back Your Personal Time
Business Management, Time Management No Comments »Are you having trouble getting your team to meet company goals? Is your team lacking energy, creativity and motivation? Are you stressed, overwhelmed and feeling the need to work long hours just to hold your department together? It doesn’t need to be that way you can take control of the situation. You can get your team working effectively towards a common goal and you can gain back your personal time.
Work is important and you want to exceed company expectations but having control of your time to pursue personal interests is just as important. You want to be there to see the kids grow up and have time for that significant other (Yes honey I meant you and not golfing)… but you also want to have time to shave a few strokes off that handicap as well. Whatever your interests are you need to find balance. Work on implementing these 10 steps and you will improve your teams performance and gain back your personal time.
4 Ways to Create Greater Accountability in Meetings
Business Management, Productivity, Time Management No Comments »Meetings, in most corners, don’t have the best of reputations.
I often hear people say, “I’ve got to go to a meeting,” but I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone say, “I get to go to a meeting.”
Why?
Too many meetings with too few results; often rehashing or revisiting issues and actions that haven’t been done at previous meetings. And, as people sit there all they can think is that this is a complete waste and/or that they could be doing something else (anything else) with their time.
Meetings are a complex affair, especially as the number of attendees grows. This is one reason why the frustrations are so high, and the results so dismal, for most meetings.
Why Your First Hour at Work is the Most Important Hour of the Day!
Business Management, Productivity, Time Management 1 Comment »Do you sometimes find yourself spending the first hour of your day making coffee, chatting to co-workers and checking through your huge inbox while answering a few emails? Do you sometimes find it hard to get started in the morning? If you answered “yes”, you’re not alone. Many professional people tend to write off the first hour of their day as unproductive preparation time - but this can be a disastrous mistake.
The first hour of your day does not only set the tone and the focus for the rest of your day but it’s also likely to be the only chance you’ll have throughout the day to stop, think and plan while everyone else is chatting, reading and trying to confront what has to be done.
In My Experience - Personal Stress and Its Impact on Workplace Productivity
Business Management, Management, Productivity, Time Management No Comments »We all remember the Disney movie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Their world was a fantasy land. Remember the dwarfs and the song they sung on their way to work? “Hi ho, Hi ho, Hi ho, its off to work we go”! O.K. come on now, be honest! How many of us are that cheerful as we fight traffic to get to the office.
Fact is, today in our western world, life is complicated. The demands of home, work, kids, pets and outside commitments constantly pull us in all directions. As employees, we come to the workplace with all types of things on our mind. And then we hear the statement; leave your personal life at home!
Effective Delegation Skills For Managers
Business Management, Productivity, Time Management No Comments »Experience shows that most of the time people refuse to delegate work because they wonder how they will fill the spare time they might end up with. To build your motivation about delegating is to be recognize the value of the time you will gain.
It’s important to spend some time before you embark on a ‘delegating-spree’, by understanding how you will utilize the time gained in delivering the needs of your role; the challenges you will be able to spend time overcoming and the value you can give back to your people, not only in being able to spend more time with them and also in the learning they will gain as they develop new skills.
According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, multitasking is a relatively new noun describing “the performance of multiple tasks at one time.” The word was ‘discovered,’ officially, in 1966–probably with the advent of the computer age; it described the computer as being able to multitask.[1]
Many women will of course scoff at the very thought of a man multitasking as it’s apparently impossible. But, I’m not so sure. For starters I think men naturally use a form of multitasking (which I’ll call ’semi-multitasking’) in many areas of life, but importantly it seems to be a matter of preference, and in some cases, choice. (Do I hear any allusions to another variety or form of ’selective deafness’… ladies?)
There are so many elements that distract you while you are working online. It can be quite challenging to try and juggle so many things all at once. One great tip that I learned from one of my mentors was the idea of using a timer.
With a timer tracking your day, you will quickly notice where you are spending your time and learn not to allocate your time to non-critical activities such as reading email or finding new products.
How many times have you discovered you are in a situation that requires you to do something very important…only to discover you have convinced yourself to put it off?
We all do it-at least some of the time. We put off doing things we need or want to get done.
Heck, I even wanted to put off writing this article.
As I write this, the sun’s shining and the wind is a perfect 10-12 knots out of the south. My boat is tied up in her slip while I sit here banging on my keyboard. I also have a long list of other things to do.
How much do YOU procrastinate? Do you think you do it a lot or a little?
Here are 7 ideas that will help you to get more of the right things done.
How to Improve Productivity Through Delegation
Performance Management, Time Management No Comments »Delegation is a wonderful leadership tool. It can be used and have a positive effect on the leaders productivity and, through careful use, increase workplace labor productivity. The benefits can be substantial.
Delegation is a term that is often misunderstood. Some managers seem to think it is a way that they can get out of work, others think it is way of getting rid of unpleasant tasks. In fact it is the only means a leader has of obtaining leverage on his or her time. It is the ultimate personal productivity asset. A leader is paid, not for time and labor, but for judgment and influence.
Top 10 Ways to Increasing Productivity & Better Time Management
Business Management, Performance Management, Time Management No Comments »Are you struggling in the effort to make your small business successful? Does it feel like you are working harder and you still don’t see the results you desire? Or maybe you want to grow your business to the next level of success. Let’s take a look at the top 10 ways to increasing productivity and better time management.
Increasing Productivity:
1. Team Building- Build your virtual support team
Have you ever heard of the 80/20 rule? In business, 20% of your business activities yield 80% of the results. You need to determine which tasks are in your top 20%, and eliminate and/or delegate the rest as a means of increasing productivity and experiencing better time management. Unfortunately, many small businesses fail or don’t grow to the next level because they don’t take advantage of small business resources like team building . An excellent way to get started is to work with a Virtual Assistant.
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