HBR 20-Minute Manager Boxed Set (10 Books) (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)

Identify What Needs to Get Done

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• Administrative tasks: necessary tasks that

you perform each day, such as approving time

sheets or invoices, or putting together expense

reports.

Seeing your work broken into categories like this

will help you visualize how you’re really spending

your time, and you may already be getting a sense of

whether this lines up with the goals you identifi ed.

Then, track your time. Once you have your catego-

ries established, begin tracking how much time you

spend doing tasks in each. You can estimate by the

hour, or if you want to dig deeper into your habits,

you can get more granular. To record your results, use

either an online time-tracking tool or a standard cal-

endar; to analyze those results, use a spreadsheet ...