Time management is an important skill to develop if you want to be considered a high achiever.
We all have the same amount of time in a day, but what we do with that time has a significant impact on what we achieve based on our long-term goals.
You can’t expect to achieve your goals in a specific time frame without understanding the time management factor. Time management allows you to better understand how better the time dedicated to a specific project should be and that will enable you to break it down into different parts and reach the milestones in a specific time frame.
Time management skills:
- Goal setting
- Delegation
- Keeping records
- Decision-making
- Problem-solving
- Strategic thinking
- Multitasking
- Prioritising
- Scheduling
- Managing appointments
It has been proven countless times that without a good time management plan in place, people fail to deliver on time. A good plan in place undoubtedly increases productivity and helps you deliver before your deadline.
People that have good time management in place are usually high achievers, you sometimes see people that have a schedule full of appointments in their day or they are running multiple businesses whilst at the same time some others are struggling to keep up with just one business. So, what is that one thing that makes the difference; that’s what you have to ask. There are no coincidences on how these people around the world manage to do what other people find hard to do, it all has to do with good planning ahead.
They are the ones that are setting goals and they are good at delegating work and getting the right people involved in their projects. They are also good with keeping records of everything because that’s what helps them to refer to something without wasting valuable time.
They are strategic thinkers, and they execute the decision without fear. They can usually multitask, but they know how to set priorities and not work on less important ones if another needs more attention.
Managing appointments is also something that good time managers should be able to do well and it’s important to find ways that will save time and increase productivity by using all tools available and the use of technology, for example, if you can host a meeting online rather than travelling for 2-3 hours to get somewhere for a meeting, then the time saved you can do another or two meetings, so this is maximising the use of your time to fullest.
