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Thursday, March 17, 2011

Business Time Management

Business Time Management would simply mean business planning with definite milestones of achievement of overall success. Thus, both at the planning stage, as well as the performance stage, one should not lose sight of the rare and limited resource of time and the importance of doing everything as per schedule within the given time at one's disposal.

In business, there is an overwhelming pressure of multi-tasking activities. Not only is there an overwhelming number but a variety of activities that one is faced with. The first thing that one should remember is that one has to be extremely methodical in handling these jobs or activities. The official planner on the table should be the principal guide for the particular day. While the previous day should be spent on specifying the activities and the probable time for that, in the day in question one should start following these activities in a planned manner, as far as possible. Remember, the focus of time management is actually changing your behaviors, not changing time. A good place to start is by eliminating your personal time-wasters. For one week, for example, set a goal that you're not going to take personal phone calls while you're working. The objective is to change your behaviors over time to achieve whatever general goal you've set for yourself, such as increasing your productivity or decreasing your stress. So you need to not only set your specific goals, but track them

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