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Isle of Wight Business Women’s Lunch

Isle of Wight Business Women’s Lunch. October 2014 The garlic farm. Time Management Techniques, Tips & Hints. Isle of wight Business women working together. Use Modern Technology to your advantage. Online Calendar and tasks lists Examples include: Outlook, Google Calendar

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Isle of Wight Business Women’s Lunch

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  1. Isle of Wight Business Women’s Lunch October 2014 The garlic farm

  2. Time Management Techniques, Tips & Hints Isle of wight Business women working together

  3. Use Modern Technology to your advantage • Online Calendar and tasks lists • Examples include: Outlook, Google Calendar • Cloud based tools • Evernote • Google Apps • Skype • Xero • Dropbox • Hoot suite

  4. Have a good Diary System, Prioritise & Plan your day • Take the first 30 minutes of your day to plan your day before you start • Understand what you want to achieve • Highlight your diary • Colour code blocks of time for different activities, such as family time, work time etc. • Prioritise these tasks which have to be done, and try to eliminate the rest

  5. Create Simple Systems • Would it be easy for someone else to see what you do? • Set up work flows for your business • Two benefits to this: • Easier to delegate • Easier to extract yourself from the business

  6. Think about what you are doing • Do you know what you want to achieve? • Do you have a business plan and /or strategy? • Or are you chasing the next shiny object? • Ask yourself is this task or meeting going to help me to get to where I want to be? • Always ask the purpose of a meeting before accepting • Remember that 20% of activities produce 80% of the results

  7. Lists • Daily lists of the 6 most important things to be done & stick to it! • Write your thoughts down under different headings & keep in one place – iPad, Evernote etc. • Alternative to Lists is to put your ‘to-do list’ into appointments. Schedule appointments with yourself & create blocks of time to complete. Keep the appointments! • Any activity or conversation that is important to your success should have a time assigned to it

  8. Delegation • Do YOU need to be doing that task? • Delegate so you can focus on the BIG tasks • Can be business or personal; for example home delivery shopping, saves your time • Get over your inner ‘control freak’ • Calculate the value of your time, the length of time it takes & then look at the cost of delegating that task

  9. Block our distractions • You have control as to how much time you spend on them • Use ‘do not disturb’ • Don’t be afraid not to answer the phone or email immediately. • Set clear expectations of your service levels to your customers, staff • Do not be a slave to your email! • Turn off notifications • Turn off your mobile phone!

  10. Other techniques • Learn to say no • Unless what you are being asked to do is part of your strategy • Or will produce 80% of the results you are looking for say no • Mindfulness • Self-care • Do things that make you happy • Focus • does multi-tasking actually get you any further

  11. There will always be 101 things to doYou won’t always get everything doneBe nice to yourself

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