Elements and Performance Criteria
- Collect information to improve time management
- Choose an appropriate method to record current time usage
- Document all activities and commitments and the associated effort required over a time period that gathers enough information to provide a representative pattern of time usage
- Calculate the amount of time spent on each type of activity, considering the impact of non-regular or one-off activities
- Identify key distractions and time wasters
- Review personal organisation and business systems for potential efficiencies
- Establish personal work goals and priorities
- Implement time management strategies
- Schedule tasks according to priority and aligned with personal productive times
- Access technology where relevant to streamline or automate processes
- Select and use tools that help plan time management and schedule tasks
- Incorporate blocks of time for personal tasks and responsibilities to assist with work-life balance
- Set boundaries and communicate to others available times
- Initiate actions to minimise distractions and reduce time wasters.
- Measure personal performance and identify areas for improvement on a regular basis