Excellent Middle Level Time Management

Middle managers often feel that time is not enough.

The most prominent problem is how to improve the efficiency of time utilization under the premise of improving work performance.

The implementation of the middle level (published in January 2006 by Mechanical Industry Press) summed up five excellent time management skills for middle managers, which can be used for reference by readers.

Regular "time use audit".

The use of inspection time is not a detailed analysis of how managers spend every minute, but focuses on the type of analysis activity.

For example, to decide the priority right, the middle managers need to ask: "what is the overall goal of my work according to the expectations of my superiors?

What is the most important task for me to accomplish first?

What is the main obstacle that hinders my team work efficiency? "

For example, attending meetings will occupy a lot of time for middle managers, and ask: "are these conferences worthy of participation?

"This series of questions is to help middle managers to optimize their time management and find out the type of wasting time, so as to improve their efficiency.

Set the pace of work.

The pace of work here refers to the speed of work progress.

There are six ways to create a lively and fast pace of work: 1, frequent "walk around management"; 2, advocate positive action every day; 3, advocate brainstorming with brainstorming or brainstorming sessions; 4, ask the staff every day whether they have any new ideas; 5, celebrate success; 6, smile and laugh more, and make the work fun.

80/20 rules are used in time management.

Put the most important 20% of the work in priority projects, and cut off some work that can be delegated to others in the worksheet.

Use small pieces of time to work.

For example, 10 minutes to put forward some new and open-ended questions, can stimulate people's innovative thinking; for example, in the gap between meetings, processing some e-mails.

Plan, plan and plan.

Most middle managers do not spend enough time to plan. They usually catch fire, which is a vicious circle.

Middle managers should spend a few minutes a day to plan their work for the day, and monthly and weekly plans are equally important.