Friday, September 9, 2011

Time Management Tips for the Executive



You do it all – meetings, reports, analysis – and you are always at the beck and call of most everybody in the office. It can get frustrating to have a lot of things to do with very little time. Worse, it can affect your performance overall. What you really need is to take 30 minutes of your already cramped schedule to read through the following tips and think how you can apply them to your work style. Hopefully, the time you invest in devising a time management plan will have high returns in productivity and in excellence both. Let’s talk numbers.

•    5: Get up at 5am and start doing things. The problem with waking up thirty minutes before work is that you might end up doing morning rituals in the office – answering personal emails, eating breakfast, putting on your tie.
•    1: Down a litre of water upon waking up. This will energize you and will help you maximize your day in the office. Health is wealth, so they say, and this applies to every profession, from a sales job that involves going to and from different meeting places, to IT jobs that mostly involve interaction with a stubborn computer program. Do yourself a favour and give it top priority. Start small with this practice.
•    30: minutes of exercise you should have every day. Complement your water-drinking habit with this energizing activity to feel more keyed up at the office. It is high time you use your executive gym privileges in the office.

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