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Never Manage Time – Manage Priorities...Do you agree ?

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Question added by nisreen essam , Personal Assistant , Salem Travel Agency
Date Posted: 2017/01/29

Definately - A good manager will link his priorities to line-up with his managers goals. So that is the fisrt thing to understand.

Now in task execution there will be a time frame set, for example in the oil and gas environment -your team needs to commission a pump. That is the priority, the goal for the day. In accomplishing a goal you need to ensure if the goal is clear, is it: specific, measuareable, achievable, relevant and time-bound?

Now you can manage the taks/priority by issueing the instruction to your team as follows: Please start to commission P-1001A at 08:00, the goal is to have the pump running before end of day. Maintenace and electrricians are available for assistance if needed, and give me continues feedback during the commissioning.

So the goal is now managed, well looked after and within a specif time frame. Time management is only as good as your planning, planning can only happen if you have a clear goal. This is just simplified, a manager will do this with all of his work, and end up with priority list that is in some cases unimaginable long. But the rule stays the same, break it down and plan.  If you start by time management first - your plan and goal will fail.

Ali Abid
by Ali Abid , Business Development Manager , Patson Agency

Recognize what your critical priorities are and set boundaries around them. For example, you may need strategic thinking time but can’t schedule it because you’re running between back-to-back meetings. By zeroing in on what your priorities are, you’re better able to assess which meetings are in line with your priorities, decline those that aren’t, and then schedule strategic thinking time into your now open time slot

Ahmad Fahmy Fahmy
by Ahmad Fahmy Fahmy , Contact Center Manager , Aria systems Inc.

Managing time is a metaphorical concept, in fact no one can manage to make an interval of time shorter or longer, what you really manage is your productivity during an interval of time. and that happens through prioritizing, prioritizing involves categorizing activities into 4 distinct groups:-

1- Important and urgent - Start on it Fast

2- Important but not urgnet - Plan it

3- Urgent but not important - Delegate it

4- Not Important not Urgent - Don't do it or delegate it.

The above are the guidilines to manage your productivity through the understanding of the implications or the cost/benefit of doing/not doing an activity.

 

Haseeb  Usmani
by Haseeb Usmani , Deputy Manager - Supply Chain , Indus Hospital Health Network IHHN

no...i think opposite of it.

Asim Ali Khan
by Asim Ali Khan , Human Resources Director , Arab Media Group

I agree with our specialist @Nisreen Essam

Eddy Balaa
by Eddy Balaa , Supply Chain Manager , M. H. Alshaya Company

Whenever you manage priorities , you have to manage time given for each priority . 

Ashraf E. Mahmoud (PhD)
by Ashraf E. Mahmoud (PhD) , University Lecturer, Freelancer Consultant and Trainer for Int'l Business & Banking TF. , FreeLancer

Thanks for invitation,

"Managing Time" effectively and efficiently, will lead to "Patronizing the requirements" 

djamel bouderdara
by djamel bouderdara , Civil Engineer , “CEG INTERNATIONAL” Engineering Consulting and Project Management Company

Thank you for your call information is valuable and useful with my respects to all

Omar Saad Ibrahem Alhamadani
by Omar Saad Ibrahem Alhamadani , Snr. HR & Finance Officer , Sarri Zawetta Company

Thanks 

Yes I agree,and  support your answer 

Obaid ur Rehman
by Obaid ur Rehman , HR Executive , Al Bahr Al Arabi Marine Engineering Services

We should manage time according to priorities. We can not just manage one only.

Marwan Mohamed Mahmoud Ahmed
by Marwan Mohamed Mahmoud Ahmed , Projects scheduling and Controlling Manager , WE - Telecom Egypt

 yes , I agree .

We can't control time plan . generally life is always change  

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