Delegate Wisely

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Spend a week tracking when you feel more productive, creative, and alert each day, and when work flows most easily. You should start noticing a theme.

Once you’ve got a rough idea of your most productive times each day, avoid doing low-priority tasks during this time. Work on the important things, and save emails and admin for when your brain needs the mental break.

If you have control over when meetings are set, schedule tricky meetings and presentations for when you feel your best, and easy team catch-ups for when you’re in a slump.

It doesn’t matter how good your time management skills are, you can’t fit 80 hours’ worth of work into a 40-hour work week. This is where delegation can help.

Look over your responsibilities and see if there’s anything another team c level executive list member is better or faster at.

If you manage a team, see if you can hand the reins over to someone else on a certain project, or at least get them to help with initial research or brainstorming, for example.

If you run your own business, outsource tasks you’re not an expert in, like accounting or content writing, and focus on the tasks only you can do.

13. Find External Accountability
No one wants to admit they suck at time management, they’ve been procrastinating all afternoon, or they’ve dropped the ball on yet another deadline.

Build accountability into your life while you build these new time management skills.