Employee Time Management

How Do You Make The Investment Worthwhile?

There is no denying that being efficient is essential to success.  The question is: how do you get employee time management up to speed?

The most important skill for a manager – Inspire your staff

With your extra responsibilities you have probably discovered the importance of time management.  Imagine if you could inspire employee time management.  Before you know it you would all be more efficient; then you could meet your targets quicker and you would be able to leave the office on time more often.

Mastering employee time management

Before you can make employee time management successful you will need to establish the needs of your team.

Consider this route; call a meeting for the whole team and present the idea of better time management and offer to provide a course or seminar to teach them.

These are the most likely responses:

-         I think my time management is pretty good, I usually hit my targets.

-         I don’t know if I will be able to take time out at the moment

-         Great.  Count me in

-         Would love to.  Will you be getting people in to cover while we are on the course?

-         I’ve been on these courses before and have never found them very useful.  They sound good at the time but they are just not practical on a day to day basis.

These answers represent the following attitudes to their jobs; insecure, stressed, keen, looking for a free day off, totally jaded.

No employee time management course or seminar is going to hit home with all of these different starting points – you will be wasting the company’s money.

Second approach

Put all the phones of divert to the switchboard (ask the switchboard operator first or you will be seriously out of favor), and take the team out for a pizza.

Try the following:

‘We are all working too hard.  If we don’t cut our hours while increasing our productivity I will never get enough practice on the golf course to beat my wife/husband/significant other on the golf course (substitute any other pastime).  I was thinking of trying to get some funding from xxx (your bosses name) so we could all go on a time management course together.  Who’s up for it?  It’s not going to be a free day out, we will have to put it into action and show an improvement in our results.  If we can prove that this works we may be able to change other things, perhaps have an early finish on a Friday? Or each member of staff have a longer lunch on day a week?  We could start small and then maybe even try to get some ‘work from home’ hours?  Its about quality of life, if we do this as a team we can make some real changes.  What do you think?’

Now you go book the employee time management course.  Get it soon so that every one is still dreaming about the future and the old attitudes have not slipped back in.  Inspired employees will absorb more on the course, be more likely to implement what they have learnt and will probably be happier at work.