“Ten Tips For Strategically Scheduling Your Time, From Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach”
By: J. Glenn Ebersole, Jr., Chief Executive of J. G. Ebersole Associates and The Renaissance Group ™
Did you truly schedule your time today in a strategic manner? Will you admit that a great amount of time is wasted in each of our days due to poor (or worse yet) no planning? Do you realize that poor scheduling can result in wasting up to 5 hours per week or 20 hours per month? Am I breaking through to you to gain your attention on making the best use of your time?
The efficient use of time gives you a real strategic advantage in your business and personal life. And the first step to make efficient use of your time is to have a plan for routine and repetitive tasks, such as checking your email, attending daily, weekly or monthly meetings, returning phone calls, etc. The routine and repetitive tasks and their time slots need to be placed on your calendar before all other items. Then after doing that, you look at determining the best use of the time that remains unfilled.
There are many ways to make more efficient use of your time. Your strategic thinking business coach offers the following ten (10) tips for you to be more strategic in scheduling your time.
Strategic Tip #1: Always have some reading material with you to read or review in case you must wait for an appointment or are delayed while traveling.
Strategic Tip #2: Develop a “call” list and carry it with you so you can make calls and return calls between appointments and meetings or if waiting for someone.
Strategic Tip #3: Group your outside appointments to cut travel time and avoid fragmented productive time in your office.
Strategic Tip #4: Block out specific times each day to provide “uninterrupted” time for planning, writing reports or other tasks needing your total concentration.
Strategic Tip #5: Use the last 15 to 30 minutes of each day to plan for the next day and establish your top 3 priorities for the next day.
Strategic Tip #6: When you are out of the office, consolidate your trips for necessary errands.
Strategic Tip #7: Block out specific times for making and returning phone calls each day.
Strategic Tip #8: Discipline yourself to schedule a block of time to read and respond to your email.
Strategic Tip #9: Allow some uncommitted time in your daily schedule for the unexpected events that will occur.
Strategic Tip #10: Select a daily, weekly or monthly planner or appropriate electronic device that best suits you for scheduling your time each day.
Your strategic thinking business coach encourages you to use strategic thinking in the development of your daily schedule and the best use of your time. If you would like to learn more about how to make the best use of your time and how a strategic thinking business coach can facilitate and guide you in that endeavor, please contact Glenn Ebersole today through his website at www.businesscoach4u.com or by email at jgecoach@aol.com
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