Hi folks,
Given my currently 70-75 hr/week work load, I am finding that I have little to no time to do the pre-wiring that I know is so very important for many of of my meetings. Given that I'm in product dev/mgmt for high-tech, I am often having product requirements meetings with exec mgmt to gain their approval/buy-in on my recommended feature set, tenets underlying a new product, etc.
I'm finding that with my crazy schedule, plus executive mgmt's similarly crazy schedules, the time to do pre-wiring before these review meetings is extremely difficult to carve out (unless I attempt to have offline pre-wiring mtg at 2am :)
Given the current work pace & busyness, does anyone have any suggestions as to how to achieve some level of pre-wiring so the review meetings are not situations in which exec mgmt is looking at things for the first time.
Would love hear your thoughts and experience around ways you've been able to achieve some level of pre-wiring in similarly such work environments.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts & experiences,
-PD1900
Hi there! Interesting
Hi there!
Interesting question that many struggle with.
First key aspect is for you to figure out your priorities - If you spend 70-75 hours a week, I'm pretty sure this is not all time spend on top priorities.
On the topics that ARE you top priority you need to get effective with the prewire - as these top 3 things is where you want to deliver the best results and these are the one's that should take the majority of your time.
For you non priority items and meeting there are two options, 1. Delegate 2. Say no.
Like myself you are probably not very conferrable doing either, but that is the way for you to ensure success - It takes a while to learn those two habits, but when you get effective at them, you make the time to be effective at your key priorities - Doing things partly or unsuccessfully is wasting time, rather do some things very well (That be the right things!)
I can recommend that you listen to the Juggling Koan cast and the time management/calendar management one's are good as well.
Kind Regards
Mads Sorensen
Disc 4536
Ditto
I'd like to second Singers' remarks above.
Perhaps the most over abused term in the English language is "Time Management." As has been said here in other posts, "You can't manage time, but you can manage your priorities." It's simple. Move, "Pre-wire meeting...." up close to the top of your next actions list at a time when it's appropriate to do so. Let something else less important fall down the list. Or as stated above, delegate or say "No!"
Read "The Effective Executive" by Drucker. That'll help in addition to the casts you'll find here.