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Time2Grow #1 Damn the paradox! Full speed ahead! Apart  from   time travelers  -  which are a very rare type of people -   we all  get the same  24 hours   a day .  Similarly, monks , hermits and lone wolves are usually the only ones capable of freeing themselves without delay from the most ordinary types of everyday hassles and many other kinds of  not-so-fun   responsibilities. Ain't it cool to shave your head...? So, what does this leaves us with? šŸ˜•   Well... with an overwhelming majority of people having exactly the same amount of time in hand as you do , and – most likely – the same unexceptional daily chores and struggles ... Same "stuff", different day... We’re not all that different , although some may try to convince you otherwise. Especially time lords . They’re the worst.  Speaking of which… never trust a time lord .  Have you ever met one?  Full temporal perception … being able to observe the past, the present and the future… in any timestream . Hm

TIME TRACKING advice: Improve your efficiency at work by leading your meetings

Hours in a work day: 8; Number of Meetings on average per Week: 15. How can I manage my time in the best way possible?

It‘s Monday and you take one look at your calendar: of course it‘s already full and everything is exploding all over the office. You just came from the first meeting of the day and trying to prepare yourself for the next one but due to the chaos, it’s not working and you’re basically wasting the little time you had.

Evaluation of time spent in primaERP TIME TRACKING
Situation before optimization
At the end of the day, you find yourself exhausted and even worse, with the feeling that you haven´t completed anything. And that was just on Monday. How are you supposed to manage the rest of the week like this? What if i told you, there is a way that can help you and the others be more effective?

As I’m sure you know the feeling, you sit in a meeting, which is planned for one hour and then after two hours, you realize that you are supposed to be in a different meeting in 15 minutes and you still haven’t come to a solution in this meeting. Everyone is talking and very often the topic changes to nothing important. And this lasts like this for most of the week.

I started realizing that most of my days are spent in meetings, meetings which take too long as we were not being effective. I wanted to find out how much time I’m actually spending in meetings, how much time I’m planning to be in meetings and what we are actually getting done, so I decided to track it for one week.

For one week, I just started adding the meetings to the calendar and took a note of if we completed everything and how long the meetings took. After the one week, I noticed that 3-4 meetings had to be cancelled or postponed because we didn’t manage to sort everything out in time although I spent most of my days in meetings. I ended up having to finish some things at home because I couldn’t manage to do it after/in between meetings. This caused me to also miss out on the activities I like to do outside of work, like going to the gym, meeting friends and just relaxing.
Evaluation of time spent in primaERP TIME TRACKING
Situation after optimization

For the following week, I decided to plan the meetings one after another in 2 days and putting the time for the meeting in a realistic way. Although I knew that these 2 days would be hectic, I was hoping that at least the other 3 days I could get done what I wanted to get done and not have to worry about it at home.

After this second week, I realized that although my colleagues were at first surprised that I was so direct and left no time for distractions, at the end we got a lot more done in a shorter amount of time. I told them right at the beginning that we need to manage in a short time since I have another one after, and it worked! I tracked the time again and instead of spending 5 days with meetings every day, I managed to successfully consolidate the meetings into 2 days and I had the other days to either finish up the information from the meetings or to prepare the meetings. It really made me realize how important it is to see how much time I’m spending and how effective it is. I decided to share my “experiment” with my colleagues and they were amazed to see how much time we were wasting before. I got them all hooked on tracking their time and now the company/group is being more effective than ever. :-)









Comments

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