Daily planning is a must in any business. But if you find yourself regularly avoiding this crucial daily action, you may need to change your planning approach. Otherwise, you may find yourself unwittingly falling behind schedule. In my work as a productivity consultant and time management coach, I’m often asked, “How do I effectively plan my day?” While there’s no shortage of solutions to this question, we can streamline our focus on how we go about the daily planning process. Here’s a simple six-step method you can follow to make the daily planning process a bit easier. Plan your day in adva ..read more

As an entrepreneur, you know firsthand how an unexpected personal issue, family emergency, or business challenge can throw your schedule off track. You’re painfully aware you need to address the glaring issue at hand. You can’t ignore it or push it forward to another date. But you may also find yourself wondering how to stop overthinking upcoming tasks in your busy week. After all, you’ve got a business to run. Here are five practical tips to help you stop overthinking things in your schedule when the going gets tough. Acknowledge this moment in time It’s no secret that schedules fall off tra ..read more

Are you an online student looking for time management tips to help you better manage your schedule?  Do you find it difficult to manage your time while going to class and studying? Any type of learning scenario presents its own series of time management challenges. Fortunately, with a little bit of planning, you can learn how to successfully navigate your school time minutes and hours. In this post, you’ll find eight time management tips to help you better manage your time. Not in school? No problem! Many of these tips can also be easily applied to situations in everyday life. Pay attent ..read more

You regularly declutter your , filing cabinet, and electronic files in your business. But when was the last time you sat down to declutter your work calendar? Most people declutter their calendars when an urgent need arises. Just think of a recent professional, personal, or societal emergency that required you to immediately and abruptly cancel calendar entries. This isn’t to say all your appointments should be thrown out the window in the name of productivity. Rather, you should have some sort of regular review to determine what’s really necessary in your schedule. Here’s a simple five-step ..read more

You’ve been thinking about setting smarter goals for your business in the new year. You’re already familiar with the SMART goal framework. You set goals that are Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Realistic, and Time-bound. But for some odd reason your goals don’t excite you. You may even find you’re not taking action on tasks related to your goals. If this is the case for you, you may just need to adjust your viewpoint. That’s where a smarter goal comes in. Adding a contextual aspect to your goals can help inspire and motivate you to breathe life into an old goal or simply change your work ap ..read more

Project management skills are crucial for any entrepreneur. And you probably use these skills during regular project review meetings, crises, or emergencies. But did you know there’s a great benefit to using project management skills throughout the work day to help you reach your goals? By harnessing the power of project management skills, you’ll be better prepared to weather unavoidable work world storms like delays and interruptions. Here are five project management skills you can use on a regular basis to manage your daily workflow in your business. Evaluate task status One of the best thi ..read more

Smart entrepreneurs know that becoming a skillful delegator is crucial to their business‘s success. But even successful entrepreneurs can get stuck in the unhelpful mindset that they have to do everything in their business themselves. So, what’s a savvy entrepreneur to do? One way to overcome this perceived block is to view the process of delegation as a pathway for professional growth and development. Instead of being viewed from a place of lack, the skill of delegation should be viewed from a place of abundance. There is sufficient time, energy, and resources available to you. The only catc ..read more

Wondering how to recover from a recent meeting that ran late? Are you looking for some helpful tips to to make sure your next meeting ends on time? If you’ve ever presented or acted as the host of meeting, you know how much energy and determination it takes to stay on schedule. A meeting will sometimes run long, even with the very best of intentions. But if you want to want to make your next presentation bigger, better, and on time, you need to take a few steps back. In this post, you’ll find several tips to help you uncover why a meeting ran late. By analyzing information from past meetings ..read more

Are you looking to have better time management skills at work and home? Do you want a handy collection of best practices for time management? It may be difficult to believe, but the key to getting a handle on your days and hours is to hone your skills when it comes to balancing your busy schedule. You don’t have to work all hours of the day, micromanage your calendar, or always rush about in anticipation of your next appointment. That’s certainly a relief, now isn’t it? It’s all about slowing down, taking your time, and thoughtfully viewing time management for what it is: a series of skills t ..read more

Have you been thinking about offering time management training for employees in your company?  Are you looking for some compelling reasons to hold this valuable training for your staff?  Time management training for employees has many benefits.  There’s the obvious benefit of learning how to effectively manage one’s time well during the day. But the reality is that time management skills allow people to better manage their time throughout the week, month, year, and beyond.  And that can potentially translate into great benefits for your company in the long term.  In t ..read more