Time Management For Leaders

Www.nwlink.com offers tips on time management principles for leaders:  

 

What most people actually need to do is to analyze how they spend their time and implement a few time saving methods that will gain them the most time. The following are examples of some of the biggest time wasters: 

Worrying about it and putting it off, which leads to indecision-

• Creating inefficiency by implementing first instead of analyzing first
• Unanticipated interruptions that do not pay off
• Procrastinating
• Making unrealistic time estimates
• Unnecessary errors (not enough time to do it right, but enough time to do it over)
• Crisis management
• Poor organization
• Ineffective meetings
• Micro-managing by failing to let others perform and grow
• Doing urgent rather than important tasks
• Poor planning and lack of contingency plans
• Failing to delegate
• Lacking priorities, standards, policies, and procedures

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