ASU Leadership and Time Management Research Paper

FINDING TIME TO LEAD

The best leaders are experts at managing their time. They are ruthless at prioritizing, delegating, and executing with maximum efficiency. Your goal in this assignment is to find a way to get one hour a day back so that you can be more strategic with your time. This means you have more time to organize, prioritize, strategize, decide, think, or to do the deep work that allows you to perform at the highest level.

Part 1: Articulate the Problem: What gets in your way time-wise? Is it distraction, low energy, personal issues interfering with work or school, or too many “urgent” tasks keeping you from the important tasks.

Part 2: What does your ideal day look like? That is, if you could, where would you spend your time and why? How would this help you in life or work. In short, what are your priorities? 

Part 3: Solution: Based on our course content, what might you do differently to carve out time for what is important to you? Develop a strategy for doing this, map out a new calendar, and discuss how you will measure success and hold yourself accountable.