Downloadable Business Management Tools
Practical tools to help you manage your time, track your priorities, and build the daily habits that sustain a conscious business.
Covey Time Management Form
Use this form to discover where you are spending time in ways that don't support your success. Based on Stephen Covey's time management matrix, this tool helps you identify where your energy is actually going — and where it needs to go.
Activities Tracking
How to Use Time Blocking
Here are the different categories of time utilization that everyone participates in when they do business. Use these definitions to create your calendar each week so you come from a place of intention when it comes to time management.
Priorities Management
A great way to manage your time and measure your success is by downloading and using my Daily Activities Tracker. Now, I must admit that tracking anything — like your food, sleep, or exercise — is not easy. In fact, it is boring! BUT… maintaining the practice of writing down your activities can make or break you.
Use this tool to keep track of what you are doing every day to build and maintain your business. You can also create your own and track those things that will further your business. To use it, just make a hash mark every time you perform a task that fits into one of the criteria for creating an Enlightened Entrepreneurship.
I use this as an accountability tool with my coaching clients to help them discover areas that they love and those they love to avoid!
Here is a list of what to track:
- My Training/Belief Building
- My Daily Business Habits
- How I am Growing My Business
A productive life is a conscious life and that takes energy. So, we need to develop strategies for creating focus to maintain our vision and manifest it.
Priorities Grid
A wonderful way to tackle managing your time and tasks is to evaluate the relative importance of each activity on your plate. Richard Nelson Bolles, author of What Color is Your Parachute? created a fabulous tool for this called the Prioritization Grid. Download and use this tool whenever you have ten items (or fewer) where you need to decide which is most important to you — down to which is least important. It is a great tool because instead of trying to decide between ten items, you need only decide between two items at a time. You will need to print out two copies to do this.
Do you have trouble deciding what to do first? Priorities management is a key component of your DMO (Daily Methods of Operation). Simply follow the directions and sort your top ten tasks to discover what is most important to do today, this week, or this year.
There are five steps:
- List the 10 items you need to decide between, in any order
- Compare two items at a time, using the grid in Section B
- Total the number of times each item/number got circled
- Do the final ranking based on the item/number
- Copy the list in order in Section D
Ready to Put These Into Practice?
The tools are the starting point. The coaching is where the real shifts happen.