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Time Management – How to be more effective

Posted by Michael under Business Growth, Leadership

A very useful time management tool I have come across is the Covey grid.

 

We often spend our time doing things that are urgent in our lives, but if we can organise our tasks according to their importance then we increase our effectiveness by focusing on the right issues.

 

Stephen Covey in his book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People describes the Covey grid as a framework for sorting out your tasks on the basis of priority in order to achieve your long-term goals.

 

The Covey grid is a 2 X 2 matrix that classifies tasks as urgent and non-urgent on one axis, and important or non-important on the other axis..

 

The importance-urgency grid refines the process of prioritising tasks by clearly distinguishing between importance and urgency. It displays where you need to spend most of your energies and helps you stop doing things that are neither important nor urgent.

 

 

 

Fig. Covey Grid

 

According to Dr. Covey, “if you do pay homage to the most important things in your life, as you’ve identified them, you begin to find ways to fit everything.” However to get efficient results you will need long-term planning and  practice.

 

Dr. Stephen R. Covey is the Co-founder and vice chairman of FranklinCovey, the leading global professional services firm with offices in 123 countries. He is an internationally respected family expert, teacher, organizational consultant, and author. His book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was named as # 1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century.

 

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