The Time Management Revolution for Entrepreneurs & Employers
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Time Management directly customized for entrepreneurs and business owners -
The four pillars of successful time management: how to plan, to focus, to automate and to delegate the right way -
The important tasks for each entrepreneur -
How to scale your business and sell it while making profit
- Open mind and willingness to learn
This is the time management course for entrepreneurs, employers and business owners and all those who think about starting a business.
If you want to found a start-up or are thinking about leaving your full-time job to do something on your own, you better be an entrepreneur.
Most other time-management courses are directed at employees of big companies — although most businesses are small ones.
This course finally fills the gap for those who don’t just want to be effective and productive in how they do things, but also who want to learn what it takes to be a good entrepreneur.
It is not about tricks, tactics and strategies that improve your productivity by 5, 10 or 15 % but rather a time-management revolution.
It shows the proven path of getting free from being trapped in your own business.
Thus, it is not only about HOW to do things (efficiency etc.) but also of WHAT to do. To know what to do is just as essential) as knowing how to do something.
You are going to learn not to work “in” but to work “on” your business. Get a good look of an outside investor to spot and solve the weaknesses of your company because you and your business are not the same.
If you are the business, guess what would happen if you get sick, leave or take time off? Yes, you are right, there would be no business until you come back.
This course is going to teach and coach you to get the right mindset to start and run your business successfully. It is about getting the proper understanding and chunking it down to small executable daily steps.
It is about changing your habits and thus changing you.
Although entrepreneurs experience many challenges, the main issue is their time habits.
This course is based on the four essential pillars of successful time-management.
1) Planning:
It does not make sense to save minutes while losing years, nor to increase the speed when you are in the wrong way.
Productivity only counts if you accomplish the things that pave the way to who and what you want to become.
We do not plan to fail, but we rather fail to plan. But how do we plan right? How could we increase the probability of reaching our long-term goals?
In this section, I will introduce to you the effective productivity planner that I use. You can download it and use it for yourself.
This and much more is covered under “planning”.
2) Focus:
Some always have great ideas, but never manage to start to work on them. Why? Because they always get something else — another more promising idea.
Others are trying to do too many things at once. While trying to keep too many balls up in the air, they lose control, and all balls fall to the ground.
Not a few are chased around by the upcoming problems that dominate their day. They are firefighters who continuously work on at least one fire that keeps them busy every day, all week long.
But busy does not mean productive. Movement is not necessarily progression. I could also jump in circles and never get anywhere.
The answer to these three problems is the right focus. Guided by the planing — the first pillar — focus helps to stay on what is important.
3) Automation
While some are trying to reinvent the wheel, again and again, to improve it, while others use the success formula of the successful. Watching the process of small businesses to become big international players like Amazon or McDonald’s will help to get a good understanding of what Automation means. You can use the same system for yourself by copying their way. This is called success modelling.
Think like a franchisor, create your business in such a way that you can duplicate it without any problem.
Thus, you can scale your business without getting overloaded or worn out.
Create a system and the needed processes to train new employees quickly. This does not only make things faster, eliminating training time and unneeded searching but also ensures quality and thus customer satisfaction.
Learn how to start a company the right way. To make it run without you.
4) Delegation:
Delegation is a must for everyone who wants to take his business off the ground. To be honest, I am terrible at doing the things that I do not like to do. I assume that you are just the same. Does it sound too good to be true that someone could like the stuff that we can’t stand? Who finishes it in better quality and quicker than we could?
Some entrepreneurs would feel wrong to delegate or outsource their work. To them, it seems like they are not doing what they should do. As if they are not faithful to the task set before them.
However, the moment, the understanding of what an entrepreneur is, sinks in — things will start to change.
This course will tell you how to know when to delegate and when you should not, by giving the real understanding of the worth of your time.
Do you know what a possible investor looks for? He or she is not just looking for great people, because great people could leave, get sick or — at the worst — suddenly die. She or he will look for a system that is working.
SYSTEM that stands for “Save Yourself Stress, Time, Effort and Money”. A system that is running and could be continually improved. A system is doing almost all the work for you.
A system that is going to run while the business is small, but also is going to run if it would be 1000 times as big.
Time is your most valuable resource. If you have time, you can improve your business idea, develop the breakthrough innovation or get more investors to join your vision.
Don’t be like Louis E. Boone who sarcastically said: “I am definitely going to take a course on time management … just as soon as I can work it into my schedule”.
- Entrepreneurs, Employers and business owners
- Future Entrepreneurs who are thinking to start a business