Manage your time efficiently.
Time is money, a saying. Nada más cierto en los negocios. Time for you to their day-to-day work, It must be very well managed, not only in an effective way, but also efficient.
Achieving this balance is needed to create a productive and profitable, otherwise, you could spend a productive life, always busy, but without reaching your business objectives.
Establezca metas
Before starting a project, identify the activities that will make you the objectives and determine which of them are urgent and which important. Considere delegar las actividades que no son importantes, Although they are urgent.
- Set goals and focus on activities that will make you reach them.
- Identify the activities to achieve its objectives.
- Organize your week beforehand on the basis of the activities found.
- Set priorities for each activity.
- Delegate activities to be carried out by other people.
- Make sure employees know well that it is what must be accomplished every day.
- Set deadlines for each activity and the overall project, taking into account that the finish time must be shorter than the time of delivery.
Standardization of procedures
Manage an SME can be much easier if the processes or procedures are standardized, esto facilita a cualquiera que entre a la empresa a entender más rápido sus labores, shortening the time of training. Para esto, develop guides that are easy to understand.
Consider the purchase of software that will help you in organizing your business, as billing systems, handling calls and sales tracking, etc.
Check constantly that the activities are making on time and efficiently.
Identify the type of activity
- Relevant and important: act immediately.
- Relevant, but less important: delegate it.
- Relevant, but not important: archive it.
- Any other, to get rid of it.
Beware of distractions
When are we working on an activity, is very common to have daily distractions, as an unrelated incoming mail, a message on our networks social or even worse, routine meetings to, in certain cases, only make us lose valuable time. Evalúe todos estos casos y, in each decide if you should take care of it.
Apply the pomodoro technique
This technique is a method of time management that consists of taking breaks from 5 minutes, each 25 minutes of work.
The concept behind these breaks is that, to make pauses in the tasks that we are developing, the brain is re-ajusta and this helps us find solutions faster, that be focused for a long time in the same idea.