Time Management is a core fundamental of being an effective person, employee and most especially a leader. Leaders have a unique position in the company where they have to balance a lot of different things from their people to the business all the way to the customers. Effectively managing your time around that is the difference between a good leader and a great leader.
Time management is an interesting topic, because people will swear for and against certain techniques. There is a ton of data about time management, but the three stats that impact me the most are as follows. The first is the typical employee is only productive for 2 hours and 53 minutes per workday and the second ties very directly into the other 5 hours (if you are talking an 8 hour workday) and that is 90% of employees check business messaging tools like Slack or Teams for up to 5 hours daily. That is a lot of time distracted by messaging apps. The last one is around multitasking, which says multitasking costs a person 6 hours of productivity each week. That is 3 business days per month!
If you aren’t paying attention to your impact on your people, you could exacerbate one or all of those stats in a single decision/email/message. That is why it’s important to become intimately familiar with time management.
This is the first video in a 6 part series that will dive deeper in the the following time management techniques:
- The Pomodoro Technique
- Time Blocking
- The Time Management Matrix (AKA The Eisenhower Matrix)
- Parkinson’s Law
- Pareto Principle (AKA The 80/20 Rule)
We will go through these techniques in the way I learned about them and started exploring Time Management in my own journey. You may find one that fits perfectly with you as an individual or you may find that mixing together a few concepts helps you more than single one could.
As you go through this series, think about how you could use these to get control of your own time, but also to build profiles of how your people and teams work from a timeline perspective. This will give you power to not only make good decisions but challenge deadlines when necessary.
I hope this was helpful! Thanks for being here! Take care!
