TIME MANAGEMENT MATRIX
from Stephen Covey’s book
“First Things First”
Symptoms
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“There just aren’t enough hours in the day”
- “I’m always running”
- “If I spend time away from my business things start to go wrong”
- Meetings are frequently cancelled and when held often interrupted.
This is the No. 1 problem that I encounter, and from which all other problems flow. As an owner of SME businesses you are run off your feet; you have no time to think because of poor time management. Stephen Covey captured me when I attended a seminar he ran here in Sydney about 10 years ago because he provided both the explanation and the analysis to overcome the problem that I constantly witnessed.
Put yourself into the matrix above. Consider how you spend your average working day: THEN consider the changes you need to make to be more effective in running your business.
