Can Time Management Lead To Increased Business Profitability?
Learning to effectively manage one's time during one's hours of business is both a science and an art. But too much precious daily business time may easily be lost through implementing time management systems to be truly productive. It is vital to strike a fine balance between discipline systems intended to free up time which may then be channelled effectively and profitably and systems which largely spiral downwards in time consuming lost endeavour.
The traditional illustration is the habitual desk tidier. Does tidying one's desk and laying all out neatly really boost productivity? Could the items be prevented rather better from encroaching the desk space at all?
Far too much vital energy is spent in companies and offices in the Western world tidying, filing, sorting, organising paperwork which is not even necessary to the immediate projects the company faces. So next time you are tempted to "time manage" ask yourself: is your effort really necessary or is it merely shielding the fact you have nothing else to do?
I think the best of all time management systems is to resort to the time honoured "To Do" list of priorities for each day. I create such a list at the end of every day for the day ahead, then work through the list throughout the following day. I then delegate unfinished tasks to the morrow. I take a short lunch, and no other break during the working day. I focus entirely on the project in hand and no other. I see each through to completion during the course of the working week.
I setweekly targets of what I intend to achieve for my business that new week, and I decide on my most time effective methods I will adopt to complete each project efficiently. I have a great sense of purpose in all I do, and if I feel there is nothing left to do, I go home! But of course, one can always set about the work for a new project!
I try always to keep before me a greater sense of what the business itself is all about, what my company strategy is. I tap new markets, new horizons, I network extensively, I am flexible and ever ready to seek a new angle. One must never allow one's channels to dry. Keep alert, keep interested, keep communicating, keep serene!
