Your ability to create, execute, grow and sustain your business is dependent on your task management skill and ability.
Your time as an entrepreneur is invaluable and can most times gets lost in repetitive tasks that are secondary although important.
Experienced entrepreneurs are mastering now the act of effective task management and are doing so through outsourcing.
However, before you decide to get right into outsourcing, try observing the following task management strategy:
Simplify your huge tasks: Start by breaking them down into parts. This helps put your brain processing in order and makes you see just how much time and what it will actually take to handle that task.
Schedule Priority Tasks: Arrange tasks according to their priority level. You can set your priority based on; the return on investment on the task, the deadline set on the task or the dependence of another task on this one. Scheduling priority tasks helps you prevent costly backlogs.
Task Sorting: From the scheduled priority task, separate the tasks that you would rather do from the ones that you would rather not do. You can do these using these benchmarks; the skill required to handle the task, the timeline allocated to complete each task and your interest in getting involved with a task.
Set Key Performance Indicators (KPIs): Set KPIs to track the tasks you choose to execute and the ones you may choose to outsource. This helps to keep you not engrossed in just executing the tasks but also in handling them productively. They KPIs should be set against timing, return on investment, cost effectiveness and other metrics for the particular task.
Outsource: Having done all of the above, go ahead now with outsourcing those tasks that you would rather not do to a freelancer or a virtual assistant.
Task Execution: At this point, you now have a realistic number of tasks to handle, a clearer insight into how to handle them, and a benchmark against which you track output.
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