Tales Of Leadership: Time Management (FEEL)

Hello, Cadre family. It's Thursday. We're at tales of leadership. This is going to be a fun one, and I hope it brings some really good retrospect. I hope you have an opportunity to really think about this when we talk about what it looks like for you. My gut is, if you're really honest with yourself and you evaluate these four buckets, I think you're going to know exactly what I'm talking about. So how many times you had a conversation with somebody that you lead, you manage, you work with, and you're like, I just.

I don't have enough time. I don't have enough time. How many people have said that I don't have enough time? Right. I'm going to give you one example of somebody that my wife is insanely good with. Her time. She's an educator, and she usually shows up to work pulling into the parking lot, getting ready to roll in at eight bells, does her duty day, finishes off her duty day, and rarely does she do work outside of those eight plus hours. And I'll tell you why and how that's feasible, and we'll go through each one of these things.

Okay, so, time management. So let's evaluate these things for yourself. Okay, you ready for this? Here's the four things that I want you to think about is time management for yourself. And again, write these down. Fel ready? Number one, what do you do with your free time when you have free time during work? We all have it. Let's be honest. Even the busiest leaders in the world have a little bit of free time. What do you do with that? What do you do with that for yourself so you can increase some of these other things down the road?

That free time and how well you utilize that free time is super critical and super important in order to make sure for some individuals that 40 hours can be 40 hours or maybe 4041-4243 and not 50, 55, 60 hours. How can you utilize your free time accordingly to ensure that you are as productive as possible in the workplace? One thing that my wife does in her free time, you know, is utilizing her prep break hour to take care of all of the things, including sometimes lunch hour. She will eat and. And do all of it because she really stresses and values those 8 hours of time in her life as her work day.

Not 45, not 50, not 55, 60, who she's communicating with at work, who she's working with, who's the partnership that she's talking to, her other school teachers, the other individuals or principal. What does that communication look like to ensure that. Number two, efficiency. Ready? So again, number one is free time. That's f free time. Number two is efficiency. How efficient are you with your time? Who here has heard someone say they don't have much time and has seen somebody on the phone for minutes and hours, or in meetings for minutes and hours and minutes and hours?

Is that really efficient for you? Are you doing what you need to do with your time management of being involved in that meeting from an efficiency based perspective? Are you providing value, are you providing value in that meeting and or being communicated efficiently and effectively in order to say, this is the best use of my time at work. So I really want you to think about efficiency and where you sit in different opportunities for your company or your organization and ask yourself, is this a good use of my time?

Is it really efficient? And sometimes it's okay to pull the plug and say, hey, guys, I'm going to bow out of this meeting, and if you have a really good culture, that should be not frowned upon. It should be celebrated like this. This one, I need. I need a. I need to pull out. I'm not providing value in here, and this is not a good use of my time. Sounds good. Let's. Let's keep rolling, right? Cheer. JC says, hey, brother. Cheers to teachers teaching all of us how to maximize times. Life's time.

That's right. You got that right on a money. Number three, you heard about free time? Heard about efficiency. Ready for this one? How well can you execute? What I found over my time in business, working with other leaders, you know, come down so you know, how well somebody does with their free time, how efficient they are, how well can they execute? If you can execute well and you can take something from an idea to a solution, excuse me, a problem to a solution, to executing on that, there's either one thing that you do, it's not a linear line.

It'll never be a linear line. But do you have to go like this and circle the wagons because your execution is poor, and we've all been there, we've all rolled the hamster wheel of business and leadership, and it's a tough place to be, but what's a great place to be is executing well, and it'll help your time to say, here's my problem. Here's three solutions. I'm going to choose one, I'm going to go after it, and I'm going to execute and how fast you can do that. If you can do that with speed, come back to efficiency, execute well, you will not have number four, lost time.

So again, tales of leadership today. Time management. T. Free time. Two, excuse me. Feel. Number one, free time. Number two, efficiency. Number three, execution. Number four. Ready for it. Lost time. There's one thing for sure. We cannot go back three minutes, five minutes, 20 minutes, 1 hour. And any time that you have all of that lost time and that lost time exists for you, it compounds. It compounds, and it compounds, and it compounds, it compounds. Your next day, your next week, your next month.

I have seen leaders waste thousands of dollars, hundreds of thousands of dollars on lost time. Poor meetings, lack of execution. Their free time is used poorly, and their efficiency drags. So, as you heard this tales of leadership today, I really, really want you to think about these four items and how you're utilizing your time. We can get deeper into what does it look like to actually manage it, but I just really want you to think about it today. I want you to think about the free time that you have and how it's utilized, how efficient you are with your time, how well you execute.

And last but not least, are you a product or a byproduct of lost time that you have throughout your workday? Write those four down and actually, like, judge yourself. Ask yourself these questions. You know, am I participating in good moments with my communication strategy to my next tokin, the individuals that I oversee? Is my communication used for good? Are we solving problems? Are we becoming more efficient? And if the answers are kind of, no, no, no. Go back to the drawing board. Go back to the drawing board and reanalyze this, not only for yourself, but for your company and all the individuals that you get a privilege to work with as your direct reports.

You owe that to them. You owe that to them to show them what time management really looks like. Our teachers, think about this. Our teachers have to find this tiny little break in the morning or this tiny little break over here just to utilize the restroom. How are you using your time? How are you managing your time? When it comes down to leading, are you efficient? Are you effective? Think about those things. Okay? JC, always good to see you. I love the comment about the teachers. Teachers have a way of utilizing and maximizing our most precious resource, time.

You're right on the money. Speak, wonder. It's always so good to see you on our live streams. It's the best. Anybody else else out there? If this is a topic that you struggle with, is this a concern that you have? How to manage, how to lead, how to focus, keep teams together, maximize your time, and you're struggling with it, please reach out. Please reach out to us here at Cadre. We'd be more than happy to support. We work with so many different coaching platforms as well, different leadership groups that can be able to support you and your teams in better ways.

We could help you and we could help you get there and maximize what's needed and necessary to be able to do so. Speaker wonders waving I love that when she does that. That's always the best. But everybody out to the world. I hope you're having a wonderful day. Think about this live stream, look back, really self analyze and it's good to do that. It's really good to ask yourself, am I getting the biggest bang for my buck today with my time? Is there anything I'm doing that I'm missing is my eight hour strong.

So the rest of the day, maybe you can have more time back, focus on the big things. All right, everybody, have a wonderful, wonderful day. An incredible rest of your week. I look so forward to showing up every Thursday afternoon talking about tales of leadership. I hope that some of my wins and some of my losses both resonate. So you take care, everybody. Have a wonderful, wonderful rest of your week. Thank you again for showing up. If there's anything we can do, we're always here for you. Bye.