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Imagining your personal time management strategy can seem like a difficult and grueling task, but the results are well worth the effort when you discover that the key to life is knowing when to work, when to play, and when to do a bit of both. Life is all about balance, so learning a time management strategy that enables you to have that balance is a good thing that can be discovered through education and practice. Find out what works for you in your daily routine and find your own time management strategy.

Work Ideas

Learning to equalize your work day can be a complicated and hard task that might cause you to cringe or hide yourself, but trust me: at the end, you will come out to be a more efficient worker and have a better and more productive life. There is no denying that putting to use the simple skill of time allocation and translating it to sperate tasks saves a lot of stress at work and saving stress at work means a ,ore enjoyable life outside of work.

Arranging your tasks in easy to understand calendars or spreadsheet is a great way to see what needs to be completed and on the first day you should make a pact to follow it to the end. The calendar will help you plan out a weekly work schedule by which you can complete your work quickly and impress your bosses and your co-workers. They will be happy you delivered the completed file on time, and you don’t have to let them know about your time management strategy if you don’t want to!

Home Ideas

Optimizing your life at home can be as important, if not more so, as organizing your life at work. You have kids that have baseball practice, ballet recitals, science projects, and many other activities that need to be balanced out into your average week. If you have time between car pooling your kids to and from these various events, you might look forward to enjoying a cup of coffee or spending a few minutes with the newspaper. Great time management and a reliable time management strategy can change all of that in an instant and create lots of spare time for you at home to relax and put your feet up.

If you found this article helpful you can read more articles, tips, and information about learning to effectively manage your time on my website: http://www.managingmytime.com/

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Time management is still one of the most frequently searched times as a solution to improved performance. A Google search (September 2006) indicates 19,200,000 hits. There appears to be a lot of individuals seeking answers from training such as workshops to purchasing tools such as PDA’s in their ongoing quest to improve performance specific to this limited, fixed, constant.

During the last 10 years in my performance improvement and executive coaching work, I have consistently asked the following simple question to even the busiest of CEO’s, entrepreneurs, small business owners, executives and front line employees: Do you waste 12 minutes a day What is surprising is the consistency of the answer at all levels: Yes! This consistency suggests that individuals at all levels need to better self-manage their activities so that they can achieve the results being demanded of them.

Businesses understand the economic impact of wasted time. Those 12 wasted minutes each day translate into 1 hour per week or 52 hours per week. Using an average salary (without benefits) of $30,000 amounts to a minimum annual loss of $576.92 per employee. Since most organizations in this country are considered to be small businesses with less than 500 employees, then using 100 employees creates a negative impact of loss profits and productivity or performance of $57,692 for just wages alone.

However, wasted time is not just a performance problem such as the lack of personal self-management, but also can be a greater symptom of significant organizational leadership issues. The question needs to be asked: Why is there wasted time? In many cases, the wasted time can be a direct result of some of the following leadership problems:

• Lack of organizational direction from not knowing what to do next to not knowing the overall business goals
• Micro management that is waiting for leadership approval to proceed
• Poor interpersonal skills from communication to poor decision making and problem solving skills
• Poor processes, policies and procedures
• Accountability (Disconnect between performance and results)

Now, let’s assess a dollar impact to each of these problems facing the employees. For 100 employees who have had one of these problems each and every workday is $100 per day. This $100 daily loss grows to $26,000 annually. When combined with the loss wages, the hit to the bottom line is almost $100,000. If the company has 250 employees, this loss of wages and performance would increase to over $200,00. A company of 500 employees would experience a potential profit loss of over $410,000.

A recent national survey by Salary.com suggests that most employees waste 2 hours each day not just 12 minutes. Also, many employees face more than one problem each day. These facts suggest that poor time management potentially contributes to far greater loss of profits than the $100,00 to $400,000 as previously computed.

To reverse this drain on the profits requires management to truly assess their problems and change their beliefs that time management is just a “personnel” issue, but instead is an organizational issue that demands effective leadership.

Leanne Hoagland-Smith quickly doubles results for her clients from individuals (small businesses owners, entrepreneurs and young people) to large organizations by creating executable strategic action plans along with the necessary business skills to pull it off. By closing the gap between today’s unsatisfactory performance to tomorrow’s goals, limited resources are maximized with waste including time being reduced. Please feel free to contact Leanne at 219.759.5601 or visit http://www.processspecialist.com/ and explore how she can help you.

One quick question,if you could improve your time management, what would that mean to you? Then, take a risk and give a call at 219.759.5601 to experience incredible results.

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E-mail, voicemail, “got a minute?” interruptions, multiple projects and competing priorities. Whether it is in work or in life, we all understand the importance of “seeing the forest for the trees.” But with so many “trees” competing for your attention, it’s tough to find the forest, never mind spend much time there. The challenge today is not so much time management, but focus management. In other words, if you want to focus on the big picture, you need to manage not time, but focus - yours.

Here are seven Focus Management

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