Time management for those who want to go home on time 7

1. Don't do e-mail first thing. Create your plan for the day; e-mail supports your plan. It is not the plan.
2. Make 45 minutes your unit for meetings. Insist on 15 minutes between meetings. To summarise personal actions, to think and to breathe.
3. Batch information for colleagues into documents and then send in one e-mail. They'll appreciate fewer interrupts and ones that when they are recieved are integrated and in understandable context. Ask that others do the same for you.
4. Stand up a lot more. Breathe.
5. Ask people to explain things in narrative: verbally or in written narrative format not bullets in PowerPoint. The former will force a more helpful deeper understanding. Bullets look rigorous but that is an appearance not a reality.
6. Be courteous Everybody wants to be valued. It motives us to do more and do more better.
7. Go home on time. Work is so much better when there is something else apart from work.