Elements and Performance Criteria
- Set personal time priorities
- Set personal business goals/objectives
- Identify personal and business accountabilities, listing both recurring tasks, and upcoming one-off tasks
- Select a preferred process/method for prioritising tasks that are aligned to business goals
- Identify any tasks or functions that can be delegated or outsourced
- Plot the remaining tasks on a scale of importance
- Collect information on current time usage
- Research methods for logging time spent by task, including new and emerging digital applications
- Use time-logging method to track time spent on daily activities, over a period of seven days
- Assemble data, grouping similar activities and calculating the amount of time spent on each type of activity
- Analyse the amount of time spent of activities of low-importance, compared with activities of high-importance
- Review data and identify opportunities to reallocate time to tasks of higher importance, to increase overall effectiveness
- Implement time management strategies
- Schedule tasks according to level of importance and aligned with personal productive times
- Employ digital technology solutions where possible to streamline or automate processes
- Select and use tools that help plan time management and schedule tasks, including new and digital technologies
- Incorporate blocks of time for personal tasks and responsibilities to assist with work-life balance
- Set boundaries and communicate personal time to others, working out compromise solutions where necessary