Business & Marketing Advice
TIME MANAGEMENT TIPS FOR BUSINESS OWNERS THAT ACTUALLY WORK Follow these suggestions to help you manage your time more efficiently – and boost your productivity. Ever feel like you’ve got too much to do and not enough time to do it? As a smallbusiness owner your time is probably divided by managing all aspects of your company, and you might feel that you’re simply over-stretched. Take a look at these tips that will help you effectively hone your time management skills and subsequently, increase your productivity. LOG YOUR TIME If you’re wondering where the time goes, it’s a good idea to make a diary of how you spend your day, logging all the activities you do, and detail how much time you spend
doing each one. This will help you identify tasks you spend longer on than others. Look at those tasks and ask yourself how productive the time spent on them actually is. Are you spending too long on activities that don’t produce effective results? Rebecca Alexander, executive coach at The Coaching Studio, advises, “It’s often useful to compare your tasks from the start of the week with what you’ve managed to achieve by the end of the week. If there’s a consistent gap between the tasks you’re setting yourself and what you’re achieving, it’s time to identify whether you’re setting yourself too much, whether you’re spending time on things you don’t need to, or if ordinary tasks are taking you too long because of a lack of confidence, resources or motivation. Whichever of those three it is (and it might 67
