Business Owners: Need Better Time Management?

If you need to manage the time you have more efficiently, there’s lots of help and tips. Each of us has our own style of working, so find solutions that match your way of doing things. Here are some strategies you may want to consider:

• Consider a 4-day (10-hour day) work week for the field. That will leave you with 1 extra day to do office/sales/estimating/paperwork. Many remodelers have found that moving to this system is an absolute joy that helps them solve their time-management problems because it allows them to focus without interruption.
• Focus on tasks in larger blocks of time. By dedicating blocks of time to completing certain tasks, many people find that they work more efficiently. For instance, a remodeler may dedicate 2 half-days each week to selling and estimating and three mornings to visiting job sites.
• If you start a task, complete it within the same time block. Do you find yourself looking at a prospective project and then trying to do the estimate 2 weeks later? It’s hard to remember the details, isn’t it? Completing tasks in one sitting takes discipline, but soon you’ll find that you can accomplish much more.  
• Do your hardest work when you are at your best. For some people, prime time is early morning; for others, it’s late afternoon. Your prime time should be used for your toughest industrial-strength work. Use your poorest quality working time to catch up on reading, simple correspondence, or ordinary phone calls.
• Each day, before you leave your desk, straighten it and create a prioritized list of to-do items for the next day.
• Establish “A,” “B,”  and “C” priorities for paperwork by sorting documents into three piles on your desk. The “A” pile is the most urgent; handle it first. The “B” pile is less urgent and comes second in priority. The “C” pile probably will be trashed because it gets outdated.

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