Valerie Dow & Tina Angell

Valerie Dow & Tina Angell

Tuesday, February 9, 2010


Time Management Tools - Prioritize, Organize, and Synchronize Your Day (part 1 of 3)

Whether you are the owner of a small business, a high-powered executive in a fortune 500 company, a public service worker, an entrepreneur, or a busy person, the key leading a well-balanced life is time management. Being able to efficiently manage your time will not only allow you to get things done, but will also reduce your stress and increase your quality of life away from the office. The following tips and tools will get you started on the road to happy, healthy, productive days. After all, isn’t that one of our New Year’s resolutions?

Time Tracking

The first step to effective time management is to take control of your day and determine how you are really spending your time. Do you realize how long you spend checking your email or how long it takes to put together the minutes from the morning meeting? Without knowing how you are currently spending your time, there is no way to adjust things so that you are more effective.

There are several time tracking tools available online, and many of them are FREE. Toggl is a collaborative time tracking tool that can be used via their website, as a browser popup, or embedded into your company intranet. Toggl allows you and your team to track time spent on specific tasks and provides you with comprehensive reports.

Another option, RescueTime offers time tracking solutions for individuals, small businesses and large enterprises and claims that on average, utilizing their service will recover 3 hours and 54 minutes worth of productive time per week, per person. Just imagine having nearly 4 extra hours in every week!

Stay tuned for Part 2 in this series of Time Management Tools...

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