Employee Time Management Tips

There are many overhead expenses that businesses need to account for. Perhaps one of the biggest is wages for employees. The owners of businesses absolutely want to get as much of a return on that investment as they can. They want to know that every dollar spent on wages is well spent. Some of the idea here might help you to gain back time and get more value for your dollar.

Most people are dedicated to doing their best at work. However, employee time management isn’t always what it should be. That means money is often wasted while employees are scrambling about trying to figure out what they need to do instead of doing their best.

Training

If you are smart about the training you will already be providing employee time management courses. If you are then wasted time shouldn’t be something that you have to worry too much about.

During training all employees should get the message about what is a priority and what isn’t. They should be taught how to decide on the priorities and methods for picking between them. In this way they can choose the best ways to allocate their time. This is an important skill for an employee to learn since you can’t be there to guide them all the time.

Neither can you dictate how each person will approach their work. Each person has their own organizational methods. Although you can offer some best practices they just might not work for that employee. This is often the case even when the method seems to be working quite well for other employees.

Meetings

Keep scheduling of meetings and other activities to a minimum. This will help with employee time management more than you know. Meetings can be an enormous time waster.

There are many businesses that have a meeting every Monday morning at 9am regardless of whether there is something to discuss or not. These meeting assume that it’s necessary to communicate weekly. The people running them forget that you should only have a meeting when there is a real purpose.

So plan meetings only when you have a full agenda and you’ll find it will be a great way to save time. Make sure you stay on track with the meetings too so that time isn’t wasted on issues that aren’t relevant to the entire group in attendance.

Employee turnover

There are high turnover rates in some types of businesses because employees become stressed out. You can help them by providing employee time management tips for them. It costs much less to retain an employee than to hire a new one. Not only in terms of money but importantly in terms of time.

New employees need interviewed, often twice, they need initiation meeting, first week reviews and so on. New employees eat up time. You’re much better turning round a failing employee than hiring a new one. You’ll save more time by turning them round than hiring new, often a week’s worth of time.

If you’d like some more thoughts, tools, tips and techniques on time management then visit my web site. The site has lots of information and free tools to help you tame time.

Alan Orr is a senior director and author. He's worked with some of the biggest companies in the world in very senior roles including many blue chip companies like British Airways, Nokia, Motorola and BAA. Time and project management have always been an area of great interest and expertise. Visit his website at: www.time-management-huddle.com

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