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08 Oct 09 Daily Time Management Tips – 8

I have covered quite many time management tips in Daily Time Management Tips series. Some of them are easy to apply while others are not so easy to follow. Do not lose you sleep over it, just follow the ones that you comfortably can and leave the rest for the time being. There will be time for them as well. I will leave this discussion here and will move forward to share today’s time management tips.

Time Bomb

I prefer to call it this because when the decisive moment will come everything has to stop. Confused? Well, there is no need to be because I am talking here about a time-based game. We learn endurance, patience, strategy, virtue of perseverance among many other things from various games that we play. Now, we will also learn time management.

Play a time management game. Divide your team in groups and get a big stopwatch. Assign each group its task and then allocate time for the task. Place the stopwatch at a place where everyone can easily see. Now it is time to press the button and set the stopwatch ticking.

Reward the group that finishes the work early, and ask the group to share what strategy they used to finish the work so quickly. This way everyone in your team will know how to manage time. Repeat this task often and see the difference.

Learn to manage time

If things are not working the way you wanted it to work for you, not even after applying the tips I have shared here then considering taking a small course on time management. It will be worthwhile, but do not rush for a course until and unless you have tried all these tips for at least a month without any result. If you get even a glimpse of the result at the end of the month then you are on the right track. You do not need any time management course.

No meetings please

A meeting is a time sucker. It is a corporate way to waste time. Do not indulge in it. If the work can be done without doing any meeting than do it, your goal is not to touch “attended 100000 meetings” mark, but your goal is to do the work assigned to you and your team. If meeting is unavoidable then set an agenda beforehand and stick to it. Do not discuss sports in the meeting.

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