Time Management for the Busy Tennis Coach
In an age of conveniences there are many inconveniences. In an average
lifespan you will spend:
006 months at traffic lights
001 year searching through desk clutter
008 months opening junk mail
002 years ringing people who are not in or are busy
001 hour a day in a car 0 7 hours a week
As we get older management of our time becomes a more important skill in
every profession. The demands on our time get much greater with family and
work commitments and at the same time there is a much greater need to earn
more income because of mortgages and the costs involved in raising a family
and running a business.
The goal of good time management is to do more in less time leaving you with
more time to do other things. These other things may be fitting another lesson
in during the day, investigating new markets, doing some up skilling activities or
it may be finishing your work earlier so you can enjoy other aspects of your life
such as family, golf, travel etc. Either way doing more in less time is
definitely beneficial .
If you are an employee you will obviously increase your worth to your employer
if the tasks that they set for you takes half the time for you to do than one of
your peers! Successful time management is doing a lot of little things well that
lead to a big result.
Here are some ideas that may help you:
Time waster
Tip
00The biggest time
waster is looking for
things.
9 Have a good filing system and a clean, neat
work space
9 keep as much as you can on compute but
obviously back it up regularly.
9 You should have one inbox and one task pad
9 Have one phone number and address book, so
you know where all your contact details
Your goal every day should be clean out your inbox and task pad
00Dealing with
messages or inquires:
Get back to the person straight away or deal with
them immediately. Writing the message down, filing it,
looking it up again and then calling or e-mailing again
is a huge time waster.
Along with the time management side of this it is much more professional if you
respond quickly.
00Tasks:
9 If something can be done on the spot
immediately, do it.
9 At the beginning of the day write down your
tasks for the day on your task pad, allocate
time to complete the tasks either in their
entirety or individually.
There is nothing more rewarding than a completed tasks list.
00Losing things
9 It usually costs a bit of money to replace items
but probably more importantly it wastes your
time looking for them and then replacing them.
9 Give everything their own special place. This
includes staplers pens, enrolment forms,
clipboards, keys etc and put them back when
you have finished losing them. This is a must if
you are sharing a work space with another
person.
There are many more little tips but hopefully these will help you start to identify
what are the big time wasters in your workday and you can start doing more or
working less!!
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