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Time Management – How you manage yourself?

Time management is actually self management. It’s interesting that the skills we need to manage others are the same skills we need to manage ourselves: the ability to plan, delegate, organise, direct and control.

So here are some tips for turning your skills learned in management training courses on managing others to manage yourself.

Planning

How can you achieve your goals without a plan? Most people know what they want but have no plan to achieve it except by sheer hard work. Your yearly plan should be reviewed daily and reset as your achievements are met. Successful people make lists constantly. It enables them to stay on top of priorities and enable them to remain flexible to changing priorities. This should be done for both personal and business goals.

Delegation

Now this may sound strange. How do you delegate when we are talking about managing yourself? When you have planned out your future actions and where you would like to go in your job and life look for people who can help you reach those goals. When the time is right communicate those goals to them and ask for their support and guidance. Now this strictly speaking isn’t delegation because you can’t completely remove the responsibility for your own goals to someone else but these people may be able to help you reach your goals through their own connections or through information, advice and guidance.

Organisation

After you have created your overall plan it will be necessary for most people to organise themselves on a day-to-day level. This involves prioritising actions, creating lists, scheduling and avoiding timewasters like interruptions. Organisational skills give you the information and ability to meet your goals by making sure you know what actions to take, when those actions will be necessary to do and how you should achieve them.

Direct and Control

Take charge of yourself! Self-motivation plays a key role in time management. You will have to overcome many barriers like procrastination, work and life crisis, and many other time and motivation stealers to be an efficient manager of yourself. To take control, you may also need to increase your skills in areas that you hadn’t previously thought about.

For more information on time management skills or how Developing People can help you please contact us at enquiries@developingpeople.co.uk.