There are three major factors which affect successful Time Management:
To manage your time successfully you need to have a clear understanding of the effects of these three factors on each other.
To be effective in your work means doing the right things (effectiveness) in the right way (efficiency); this involves being clear about the key result areas of your job and the precise outputs required. On a more basic level it means answering the questions:
Why does my job exist? Is it a new or established position?
What would happen if this post disappeared?
How much control do I have over what happens?
The type of business your organisation is involved in, the needs of clients and colleagues and the culture of your organisation are the major parts of the context of your job.
Understanding organisational culture is a complex process - it involves understanding how things get done in the organisation, who REALLY makes decisions and which are the key informal as well as formal relationships. Understanding the organisational politics of your organisation can help you to develop time-effective strategies.
Other organisational factors such as the relation of the organisation with its environments, political allegiances and resistance of adaptability to change are other relevant factors.
No-one complains about having TOO MUCH TIME on their hands at work!
Working styles differ greatly depending on skills and inclination. What do you know about your own style of working?
Ask yourself the following questions:
What holds good for you also holds good for the people around you; if you have opposing styles this in itself can cause tension and waste time!
Being time-effective means taking account of the working styles and rhythms of other people. Think of your team, your boss, your partners:
How can you and they get the best out of your working relationships so neither you nor they waste their precious time?
This Time Management training course is designed to help participants develop their skills in time management to achieve more effective results in less time.
This Delegation Time Management training course is designed to help people working under pressure in hectic work environments to manage their time proactively; to work smarter - not harder - and achieve better results and greater satisfaction.