I know you are very busy.
I bet most of your meetings are either spot fire-fighting (dealing with urgent issues) or habitual time wasting sessions.
I bet you blow too much time on emails.
I bet you spend too much time on bureaucratic stuff that doesn’t deliver value.
I bet you’d like to spend more time with these people:
- Your direct reports
- The teams who deal with your clients
- Your clients
- Your suppliers
- Your wider community
Could you do more of the following in order to gain at least 20% more time?
- Delegate as much as possible of the fire fighting. How else are they going to learn?
- Delegate to your PA the opening and reviewing of your emails, with instructions on what to let through to you and what to divert or delete.
- Chop the bureaucracy habit to bits, and keep it simple and useful.
- Schedule the time gains for meeting those stakeholders listed above.
What else could you do?
