One of the most important skills we need to aquire as businessmen is the ability to manage our time. In any industry of business a good management system it is vital and can be the decisive factor in making or breaking you business. If your aim to is to be your own boss or lead a team of people, they will be looking to you for organisational inspiration.
So many of us have failed to master the art of organisation, especially those of us who have made the transition from being employed to self employed. When the boss is dishing out the orders it is often less thought provoking for us in our day to day runnings.
It becomes a challenge to manage your time with no boss over you day to day, especially when we have to handle the workload, answer the phones, do the paper work and marketing yourself. Client deadlines can also add the intense pressure to achieve balance.
If we take the time to be goal orientated, we many find a day to day runnings a lot easier. You may need a mentor to help you keep track of you targets, or maybe you might prefer to use a goals program, either way you will need some sort of performance tracker.
Many of us spend plenty of time each week simply browsing/finding and thinking about things which are actually taking us away from our goals. We often say we need more time, but in actual fact we need to learn to optimize our time. We need to make best use of the hours we already have in a working day.
A good way to be organised is to use some sort of CRM (Customer Relations Manager). This is a piece of software that stores any type of information, such as contacts, ideas, sales figures, invoices and much more. It is useful to keep your information stored in one secure place, even better if its online on a secured server with a backup utility.
If your a freelancer and you are on a tight budget, then it helps to store as much information as possible online, or on your system. Try and avoid printing lots of information, as paper & ink cost money, but saving information on a hard-drive dose not. It is also quicker to retrieve information if it is saved in digital format, as long as you have a secure system. - 29941
So many of us have failed to master the art of organisation, especially those of us who have made the transition from being employed to self employed. When the boss is dishing out the orders it is often less thought provoking for us in our day to day runnings.
It becomes a challenge to manage your time with no boss over you day to day, especially when we have to handle the workload, answer the phones, do the paper work and marketing yourself. Client deadlines can also add the intense pressure to achieve balance.
If we take the time to be goal orientated, we many find a day to day runnings a lot easier. You may need a mentor to help you keep track of you targets, or maybe you might prefer to use a goals program, either way you will need some sort of performance tracker.
Many of us spend plenty of time each week simply browsing/finding and thinking about things which are actually taking us away from our goals. We often say we need more time, but in actual fact we need to learn to optimize our time. We need to make best use of the hours we already have in a working day.
A good way to be organised is to use some sort of CRM (Customer Relations Manager). This is a piece of software that stores any type of information, such as contacts, ideas, sales figures, invoices and much more. It is useful to keep your information stored in one secure place, even better if its online on a secured server with a backup utility.
If your a freelancer and you are on a tight budget, then it helps to store as much information as possible online, or on your system. Try and avoid printing lots of information, as paper & ink cost money, but saving information on a hard-drive dose not. It is also quicker to retrieve information if it is saved in digital format, as long as you have a secure system. - 29941
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