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 Effective Time Management Skill for Agents and Advisors: Moving Toward Ideal

How would you describe your ideal clients? I mean if you were to list the qualities and characteristics of the people you most enjoy working with what would they be? Now how can you get more clients like that? Filling your business with ideal clients will not only make your work more enjoyable, but it will make you more profitable and you’ll be able to work with more people with less stress. Focusing on ideal clients is one major way to gain increased effectiveness from your time management efforts.

How would you describe your ideal support staff? When you’re at the point where you need the help of support staff so you can continue to grow, you want to make sure you hire the right people. A good way for you to gain clarity about what an ideal support person would do, and how they would act is to define the key accountabilities for each position. Realize that key accountabilities aren’t activities they’re outcomes. So for example, a key accountability isn’t answers the phone by the third the key accountability would be connects with each person contacting our office making them feel as though they’re the most important person in the world. Knowing the outcomes you expect from each ideal support staff will make it easier for you to hire right the first time. But then you have to take responsibility for managing them. When you effectively manage your support staff you save yourself a lot of time and grief.

Schedule your time based on the balance you want in your life. Balance doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone. A balanced life to me doesn’t mean I am spending 8 hours sleeping, 8 hours working, and 8 hours with friends. You have how you would spend your time if you could. That’s your ideal for a balanced life. Then you have to block your time for the way you want to spend it. Until you do that you’re always blocking your time for how you think you have to spend it.