Time Management Includes Protecting Other Peoples Time

We’re all short on time. The deadlines keep coming, the inbox keeps filling up, and there always seems to be something else that needs our attention. Our own time management issues are one thing. But when we force others to mismanage their time because we need them to help us with ours, we’re making the problem harder. They don’t have any time either!

In this episode of Purpose Under Pressure, host Bryan Lefelhoc, founder of Bryan Media Strategies, isn’t offering another system for squeezing more into your calendar. Instead, he challenges leaders and sellers to think about how their habits affect the people around them, from last-minute meetings and urgent emails to showing up five minutes late and the dreaded, “Got a minute?”

Because everyone else is busy, too. You may never completely solve your own time-management problem. But you can be much more intentional about protecting someone else’s time.

Purpose Under Pressure is brought to you in partnership with Sandler by the Ruby Group, serving sales professionals and sales organizations nationwide from their locations in Akron and Columbus, Ohio, in Capital Region, New York, and in Jacksonville, Florida

Key Takeaways:

— Time pressure is universal. Almost everyone feels like there simply isn’t enough time to get everything done.

— Time management is interconnected. The way you manage your time directly affects the people working around you.

— Urgency gets transferred. When you fall behind, your emergency often becomes someone else’s emergency.

— Interruptions are more expensive than they appear. A small disruption can break focus and affect everything that follows.

— Being late sends a message. Five minutes may seem insignificant to you, but it communicates how you value someone else’s time.

— Workplace culture changes the equation. People may technically be allowed to say no to an interruption while feeling they realistically cannot.

— Purpose includes respecting others’ time. You may never completely control your own schedule, but you can control how much unnecessary pressure you put on others.

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Helpful Links

Sandler by the Ruby Group: https://go.sandler.com/therubygroup/

Bryan Lefelhoc, Owner, Bryan Media Strategies: https://www.bryanmediastrategies.com/