16 Oct 2025

Time (Priority) Management - Part 2

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Career Tools

In this episode of Career Tools, Sarah and Mark discuss time priority management, emphasizing the importance of using a calendar to track time and activities for business professionals. They recommend printing out a day-view calendar for the past three weeks to analyze how time is spent, capturing activities in 15-minute increments. They introduce the Horstman's time analysis to compare actual activities with key priorities and suggest a Drucker analysis for real-time tracking. The hosts advise listeners to schedule their number one priority on their calendar, suggesting 30-90 minute blocks, and encourage the use of AI to help start large tasks. They stress the importance of focusing on top priorities for job security and effective time management, recommending scheduling harder tasks in the morning and protecting scheduled time from interruptions.

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