by Tony Vidler
Time management is always cited as one of the top challenges for advisers, but is time management really the problem? Or is it a prioritisation problem?
Working out what you should really be working on is one of those things that we all know we should do, but for one reason or another other stuff gets in the way.
The other stuff is more often than not simply “other people’s priorities” of course, isn’t it?
We then have a tendency to say “we have a time management problem”, when in fact we have a “priorities problem”. That is, we are allowing other people’s priorities to over-ride our own. The key reason why this happens continually to most professionals is simply because they are not clear about their own priorities. They haven’t established a framework that help them establish priorities in a dynamic work environment.
In this weeks quick video we discuss the challenge of “time management” and put forward 5 questions that will provide a framework for establishing what tasks and functions should be featuring near the top of you list if you want to get the most out of your work day while staying sane and having a life outside of work too…
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