Blue Ash, OH – Effective Time Management Advice from a Business Consultant

Improving your ability to manage your time wisely increases your productivity and gives you more free time. Many business owners fall into an outdated paradigm of working longer hours, assuming it increases their profits. The number of hours we work doesn’t guarantee favorable results: what we accomplish in those hours does. 

Identify Your Goals

By identifying current company goals, you will focus on the work required to achieve those goals and avoid unnecessary tasks.

Use the 80/20 Rule

Using the 80/20 rule, you can reduce your workload to focus on completing only significant daily tasks.

• Find out the top 20 percent of activities making up 80 percent or more of valuable work.

• Find out activities in the bottom 80 percent that are lower-value and time-consuming.

You will reorient your action plans and workload to complete the tasks with the most beneficial results while reducing and eliminating nonessential tasks – saving time and effort. 

Simplify Your Tasks

Break down the steps and resources needed to complete beneficial activities and tasks: find out the purpose of each step to see if they can reduce to fewer steps and resources. You can also combine them and reduce the number of resources needed.

Increase Your Productivity  

Aim to get twice as much work done in the same amount of time by grouping similar objectives and tasks. By focusing on completing similar tasks, you will get more done and improve your skills to begin to complete them more quickly.

Assign Tasks Based on Skills

Assign tasks to people who have relevant skills in those assignments or activities. Delegate effectively to get more done in less time and with more efficiency. 

Plan and Prioritize

Plan and prioritize daily – set objectives, delegate, and have the necessary resources available for easy and quick execution.

Organize

You lose time when you work in a disorganized or unstructured environment. Complete tasks in designated areas where resources are readily available and easy to locate to maintain a single-minded focus, and you will get the work done quicker.

Create Action Plans

Write down what person or group is responsible for completing a task, by what date or time, and what resources they have to use: this makes execution simple and quick.

Avoid Procrastination

Creating a system of managing tasks and objectives is one of several effective ways I teach my clients how to avoid procrastination. When you plan effectively, you avoid overthinking the process. 

Maintaining higher productivity is contingent on having an effective time management system. When you double your productivity, you will double your pay and time off. After all, your improved productivity will not be affected because you have a firm strategy in place. 

Business owners and entrepreneurs can book a consultation with me for individualized operations management improvement.