Follow the 7 Hurdles of Time Management & Improve Productivity

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Follow This 7-Part Time Management Model to Improve Your Productivity

Watch the videos below to understand the 7-Part Time Management Model. Discover how it can help you to find out what is wrong with your current approach to time management.

Each video contains tips to help you use your time working from home more effectively. They aim to help you become the very best version of yourself.

From Capturing to Acting, by jumping these 7 hurdles, which means to make each one an effective part of your time management model, means that you will have successfully improve your time management. In turn, significantly improved how much you get done.

1. Capturing

Ensure that wherever and whenever you are, you have a place to enter, write stuff down, capture it.

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This 7-part model will help you to find out what is wrong with your time management

 

2. Listing

A healthy list means having lists that you trust and keeping them ‘living & breathing’ by emptying the lists frequently so that your brain is relaxed when it places something on the list that it will be looked at again.

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Hear about the second step of this 7-part model for fixing your time management

 

3. Emptying

Emptying is about assessing and emptying the capture points frequently. For example, your email inbox is a capture point.  Most people will try and access and empty their inbox on a daily basis.

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Emptying is the 3rd step in the model. Watch the video to learn more!

 

4. Deleting

Help you understand that deleting things that don’t require your attention is key to productive time management. An example of this would be to delete all emails that you are copied into, especially when you have regular 121 calls with people who tend to brief emails over the call.

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What’s deleting all about? Watch this video explaining part 4 of the 7-part model

 

5. Storing

This is about keeping the right stuff in the right places and making it available at the right time so that when you come to use it, there are no obstacles to overcome.

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Watch this video about part 5 of the 7-part model for effective time management

 

6. Scheduling

Having a trusted diary where you can schedule is essential for having effective time management. An example is having an experienced PA that schedules enough to keep you on track, but not so much that it hampers you.

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Hurdle #6 is scheduling. Watch this video to know more

 

7. Acting

This is the most important aspect of the time management model. It is where you get things done. Here is where you need to complete tasks that you are paid to complete. If the task is below your pay rate then delegate, delete or automate.

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The last stage in strengthening your time management is Acting

 

Thank You for Watching

We hope the webinars on the 7-Part Time Management model have been helpful.

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Our time management coaching cards are only £9.95 and can be used by a line manager to coach a member of their team, or for self-coaching

 

Who Are These For?

People that have a desire to get more done. To feel less stressed. To want to take back control. Ideally, you will be a knowledge worker. Also known as an Office worker. You’ll be managing emails, possible people, and have many demands placed on your time at once. These cards can be used by a line manager to coach a member of their team, or for self-coaching.

What Do You Receive?

86 Time Management Coaching cards. The size of playing cards. Separated into the 7  stages of the 7 Hurdles Time Management model; Capturing, Listing, Emptying, Deleting, Storing, Scheduling and Acting.

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Action: For even more useful content on time management, check out our ultimate guide on Time Management skills.

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