Smart Start-up Tips: Streamline Your Work Week – 10 Ways to Find Extra Time and Boost Productivity

Are you struggling to find time to work on your business or just keep up with the business of business? Do you have projects you would like to get started but never seem to have the time?

You try and fit them in here and there but without much success. The secret lies in streamlining your workweek by allocating a different focus for each workday, such as client days, development days and admin days.

Client days speak for themselves, while development days are spent on marketing, following up with prospects and working on new products and services. Admin days are for catching up on bookkeeping, filing and maintaining systems. If you batch all of these tasks together you will have a super productive week.

Where to start streamlining your work week?

#1: Grab a year long calendar.

#2: Map out all holidays for the year (including the school holidays for your children). This shows you realistically how much time you have available to work on and in your business.

#3: Schedule in conferences and other events.

#4: Look at your work week and divide the days into specific tasks. For example, client days Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. Business Development day on Wednesday and Admin day on Friday.

#5: Next look at how many development and admin days this gives you for the year.

#6: Now you can determine realistically how those projects on your project list will get done. Do you have enough time for all of them? Probably not. Select the top three projects that will drive your business forward and generate revenue.

#7: Map these projects over the year, setting realistic completion dates.

#8: Spend each designated day working on that business focus and see your project finally come to fruition.

#9: You can also streamline your admin day and outsource as much as you can. Granted if you run a business you still will have some admin to complete.

#10: Check out your client day hours on your calendar. Is your business growing at a rate that you will run out of hours next year? This map can show you if you require additional resources.

The hardest part of streamlining your week is not getting your clients on board but disciplining yourself that this is your new schedule and you need to stick to it. Sure sometimes you may need to forgo a development day to keep a client happy, but if it’s all mapped out you can see the impact this will have on your projects and adjust accordingly. SO grab your map and get started!

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