Welcome to the April edition!
This month:
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Become more productive - Great tips to time-manage your day!
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Introducing - The Productivity Day
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Our new E-book - Create your revenue-generating office!
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"Collaborating For Growth" Business Show 2012
Time Managing Your Day
How often do you find yourself saying, 'I’ll start my day with a plan in mind but will probably see what happens'? Perhaps you are very good at time managing your day but become easily distracted which generally results in your plans going awry.
Time management is actually very easy but you must make a commitment to the actions that you take. Ok, I know that you cannot account for the unexpected but having a plan that you have committed to will keep you on track, no matter what you encounter in the space of your day. The secret of good time management is planning and then ensuring that this time is protected. If you find that you’re always feeling unproductive, it could well be down to poor planning and time management.
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Have a look at the following tips and implement your time management plan today!
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Start by keeping a weekly time log to find out where the most productive times of your day lie. This will also show up all of the areas in which you are wasting time or being unproductive.
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Try to find different ways of doing things, ways in which you can be more productive.
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Manage your calls and emails and don’t let them control your time. Set aside two short sections of your day to answer/send your emails. Delegate your calls to your VA or PA, who can filter them for you and take messages from those unplanned calls so that you can get on with being productive.
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Download some free time management software such as www.rescuetime.com which will help you to stay on track.
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Review your progress – are you reaching the short/long term goals that you are setting from your new time-managed day?
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Reassess the expectations of others with regards to your time. Use an activity planner so that you are able to justify why you are in control of your time and not others.
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Try to set aside sections of your day so that you can deal with any unplanned events. This will ensure that you are also catering for the unexpected.
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When you are faced with a huge ‘to do’ pile, go through it quickly to prioritise and then deal with each one at a time. DO NOT look at it, think ‘I’ll deal with this one later’ and put it back on the pile.
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Do one thing at a time. Don’t think that you can do lots of things at once, even the greatest multi-tasker cannot give each of these things 100% quality attention.
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Keep a tidy and un-cluttered work space to help you to feel in control of your day and your workload.
And don’t forget...
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Delegate! Give those non-critical tasks to your VA or PA to generate more time.
Happy planning!
The Productivity Day
Boost your office productivity and generate more time to spend with your customers!
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Do you want office systems that actually help you to generate revenue?
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Do you wish you had strategies in place that really worked but don’t know where to start?
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Do you wish you had more time to run your business?
If your answer is yes to any of these, we can help.
In today’s highly competitive business world every minute of your working day counts. If you have office processes in place that are not working for you or worse, no processes in place at all, then it is highly probable that you are losing £s in potential revenue every day.
It really is very simple to put the right processes in place but ironically it may well feel like you just don’t have the time to factor the plans into your day, especially if you are struggling to find a starting point. It becomes a vicious circle, doesn’t it?
How we can help
The Productivity Day provides an opportunity to review your current office processes and guarantees to find you at least three ways to make you and your office more productive. We will also give you feedback on software and organisational processes with a view to making you more efficient. Contact us and find more information here.
Create Your Revenue-Generating Office Today!
This month, we have launched our downloadable
e-book!
Our e-book is finally here and in it you will find hints and tips some of which are not so well known, that you can quickly and easily implement yourself to make your 'back office' run far more efficiently, leaving you to concentrate on the profit-making areas of your business. Get your free download here!
"Collaborating For Growth" Business Show 2012!
Here at PAS towers we are very exicted to be a part of Collaborating For Growth Business Show 2012 in April! This is a great opportunity to come and talk to fellow business owners, get some great tips and ideas and choose from lots of different Seminars hosted by key speakers, whether you are just starting out or are an established business owner. We will be there, come and visit us! More details to follow on Twitter and via our website.