If you want to magically create more hours in the day you need to understand the finer points of time management. One of the skills within that subject is diary management.
Effectively managing your time via your diary means you get more done whilst sat at your office workstation, you’re on schedule, and you’re not constantly chasing your tail.
Here are five tips for optimising those diary management skills.
- Set up your diary on your mobile device, e.g phone or tablet, so you can add meetings and commitments on the go, whilst you’re away from your fancy office desk
- Sync your devices so you don’t miss anything or overbook yourself without realising
- Always be realistic with what you book into your diary and don’t attempt to do too much - you’re setting yourself up for failure!
- Always add in travel time and a daily block of ‘admin time’ which means you have a buffer if something runs over
- Write down everything you need to do and add it to your diary; this will keep you on track
So, if you sit at your ergonomic chair on a daily basis, wondering where the time is going, implement these diary management tips and see how much extra time you can virtually create!
Do you have any other useful tips to add?