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

Managing Time

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Say your goal is to improve your people manage-

ment, but your time-tracking metrics reveal you’ve

been spending only an hour per week on people-

management-related tasks—not nearly enough. To

meet your goal, you’ll need to devote more time,

energy, and resources to it. But how much? Three

hours? Five?

Start by thinking about what tasks you’ll need to

perform in order to reach your goal. You will prob-

ably want to interact more often with your eight di-

rect reports. One way to do this is to schedule weekly,

half-hour check-ins with each of them, for a total of

four hours. You may also want to think more seriously

about planning some training for them—that will

probably take another half hour per week.

Next, fi gure out where you’ ...