Time management — the positive effects of being aware of your time
Leave a Comment / timeghost, Management / By Tim Lauenroth
Time and project management meet in our project time tracking. Both topics are important to promote employee productivity. Fortunately, with good time management, we can better manage our daily lives, both professionally and personally.
This blog entry will go over the positive effects of good time management and show you why you can benefit from it in both your professional and personal life.
What is the goal of time management?
To explain the goal of time management in more detail, we first have to deal with what managing time means:
Managing your time is the conscious handling of the available time.
Therefore, the goal of time management is nothing more than to make the best possible use of the time available. At the end of the day, everyone only has 24 hours. It depends above all on how this time is used and divided. It’s not about being productive all day and filling up your calendar with appointments, but rather about consciously allocating the time available.
Because this is where we can benefit extremely from managing our time, both professionally and personally.
The positive effects
Time management allows us to consciously work on the things that are important to us at work and also in our private lives.
Setting priorities
Prioritizing is one of the basic methods of managing your time and allows you to focus on what is important and work on the things that are important right now. Especially in this day and age, we have so many opportunities to spend our time on things and therefore get distracted more easily. Therefore, it is even more important to be aware of which tasks/activities are important at the moment. In this article, we will introduce you to methods of setting your priorities correctly.
Overview
With the allocation of your time, you get an overview of today. Nowadays different tools give you the overview you need. Calendars like Outlook can show you your day visually and you get an overview of the appointments/tasks you have to do today.
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Reduce stress level
Reduce your stress level through good time management. By good planning and by setting priorities it will be easier for you and your team to meet deadlines. Your stress level will be reduced and your productivity increased at the same time.
By managing your team’s time effectively, employees will be able to handle unforeseen events and feel less stressed at the end of the day. By lowering stress levels, the productivity of the entire team is increased and solutions to problems are found more quickly.
Work-life balance
Another positive consequence that comes from good time management is a better work-life balance. To give a quick example, 21% of work time is spent on social media use on average. If this percentage is dedicated to prioritizing and consequently better managing your work time, you will have significantly more free time, be able to dedicate yourself to family and friends, relax and recharge your batteries for the next day.
Increase productivity
Good time management will boost your productivity 100%. The increase in your productivity is a result of successfully managing your time because by timing your tasks throughout the day, you automatically become more aware of the important tasks. Most importantly, it is clear to you what tasks you are dealing with throughout the day and how you are allocating your time to them.
“Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now”
Alan Lakein — time management author
Through good planning — and at this point, managing time is part of it — you can determine today what should happen in the future. This is very helpful for your job as well as for your private life.
Tools like timeghost help you get an overview of your workday and create measurable representations that you can use to make improvements in your projects. Schedule a Live Demo and our team will show you the product and answer any questions you have about the software.
In a nutshell: Time management has many positive effects on both your professional and personal life:
– Successfully managing your time lowers stress levels. Employees work calmly on a task and prioritize the most important requirements, which helps them accomplish more in less time.
– Time management gives you a better work-life balance by managing your time more consciously, giving you more time for family, leisure activities, and other things away from work.
– Using time management increases your productivity as you work on the most important tasks by prioritizing and allocating your time accordingly.
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