I hear this objection all the time … “Im too busy to …” Making time for proper guidance is critical. This tip is written by Greg Schinkel of Unique Training & Development. You’ll learn more like this at our upcoming course at the end of this month. Meanwhile, sink your teeth into this great tip.
Being too busy can cause inefficiencies in your overall leadership.
Many leaders want to do a better job at leading, but they get bogged down doing lots of tasks that take away their time from interacting with their teams.
Dr. Linda Duxbury, from the University of Ottawa, did some interesting research about how managers use their time, and the impact it had on how the employees rated them as leaders. She went into organizations, and she asked the employees to complete a survey rating the effectiveness of their manager. Then in the background, she asked the managers to complete a time diary of how they used their time.
There was an interesting correlation between how the managers used their time and their leadership effectiveness. The best managers found a way to free up enough of their time to do the right leadership activities, whereas the lower rated managers ended up spending all their time either in meetings or trying to manage using emails.
So how do you do the right thing and still get everything done? One group of supervisors asked me, “What percentage of our time should be spent on the floor with our teams versus in meetings and project work?” I suggested that 80% was probably the right number. So that means in a typical work week, only 8 hours would be spent off the floor in meetings and doing other paperwork and administrative tasks.
Click here to listen to a few tips to free up your time, so that you have time to lead.
Greg and I will be working together to bring his Front Line Leadership Workshop to North Bay to serve managers and leaders in our community. Don’t miss the opportunity to learn brilliant strategies and ideas to help make you the best leader you can be for your team!
Front Line Leadership Public Workshops
You can register your front line supervisors, team leaders and managers in our two-day Front Line Leadership program.
North Bay, Ontario, Canada – November 28th & 29th, 2018 – Homewood Suites