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Tips on Time Management10 tips on time management that will help you manage your time more efficiently :
Start your day with defining goals
Do not start any activity before dedicating a few minutes to specifying the targets and goals for the day.make a goal paper with the title "What do I have to do today?". Once you will write the goals on a paper you will feel more committed to fulfilling them.
Make sure that the goals you defined are realistic. Do not define your wishes - define practical goals.
Even so, goals should be ambitious and hard to achieve. You must make an effort to achieve the goals. Therefore, if your goals are measurable, do not define low goals.Aspire to achieve something that you have not achieved yet. If you are a sales man and you have sold one unit yesterday, you will not define a goal of 1 unit for today.
divide your goals into deputy goals respectively to the amount of time you have.
work closely with your goal paper
During the day look at the paper and mark the goals you have already achieved. Observing the paper will remind you goals and tasks you have already forgotten. In addition, it will give a clear picture of your situation in that day - Do you have to increase the pace or add more goals since you achieved all the ones you defined.
Gather similar tasks
For example go through new e-mails once a day or in several defined times but do not read any new email when you receive it. Send all the faxes in the same time, Call your colleagues or customers on the same time - Do not do activities that you did not plan to do unless you have to.
Stay focused
Do not let anyone steal your time. Don't let anyone disturb you during work, do not answer private calls during work hours. Close the door and ask privacy when you are focused on an important task.
Check if you fulfilled your goals
In the end of each working day, don't go home before you have checked if you fulfilled the goals you defined.
If you haven't fulfilled some of the goals - it is important that you learn the lesson and understand what you should do better tomorrow - what you can improve, what were the disturbing factors and what are the things you want to preserve.
Work by priorities
Rank your tasks. Focus on the most important tasks or give service to the most important customers.
Meetings are time consumers. make sure that all the relevant people will attend the meeting and make all the required preparations.
Stay cautious of illusions
A good time management is leaving your "ego" and go on to the next opportunity.
Learn to stop "selling" to un serious customers. Certain customers will not buy from you no matter what you do.
Do not give up too soon -
In contrary to the last advice you must remember that most of the customers say "yes" only after they have said "no" several times.
An American research found that in average, One hears "no" seven times before a deal is completed.
Learn every customer - Does he have needs you can answer, does he have the budget to buy your product ? Your analysis will figure out if there is a real opportunity or you are wasting your time.
Dedicate time for improving your customer relationship
It is much easier to sell to an existing customer than to a new customer. Constantly improving the relationship with your costumers and building mutual trust is a worthwhile investment.
Make a "Not to do" list
Try to make your "what to do" list as short as possible. Delegate the authority to other people.
Try to do only tasks that you are good at and enjoy.
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