Time Management : Set Priorities to Get the Right Things Done

TIME MANAGEMENT IN THE WORKPLACE

and they may wiggle a little on their time-
management plans. If you’re too tough on
them, your people will resent you and begin to
abdicate responsibility. Defi ne benchmarks to
monitor your group’s collective progress toward
the completion of tasks, objectives, and goals.
Continuously review how time could be better
used. Make updates on your time-management
plan a priority.
Sharpen your organizational skills. Once
you’ve begun to set priorities and organized your

TIME, MOTION, AND OUTPUT

Time and motion studies are used to

help some businesses maximize effi-

ciency. Time studies record the time it

takes to perform each task in order to

establish time standards for every job.

Motion studies analyze each move-

ment made in accomplishing each

task. Although it might seem tedious

to study time and motion so closely,

it is the only way to determine the

most efficient sequence of actions and

establish standards upon which to pre-

dict business performance and growth

potential.

SOURCE:The Small Business Handbook by Irving

Burstiner (Fireside, 1997).

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