Time management is one of the top "hot topics" in today's work management arena.
With so many things on our plate each day how do we fit it all in? We must first remember that we cannot "really" manage time as the seconds will continue to tick away and there is no stopping them or bringing them back.
Instead what we can do is to "really" manage what we do with our time.
If managing your time is something that you struggle with you might want to take a look at your personality type for some helpful insights into why.
If you are someone who is a perfectionist, then you will probably never feel that you manage your time exactly right.
You will always fall short of your perfect expectations.
Or if you are someone who over commits themselves, always wanting to please others, how will you ever have enough time to do everything you have committed yourself to? When you begin to understand how your personality can affect how you manage your time, it will help you to be able to work "with your time" more realistically within the constraints of your personality type.
A flip side to this is that it could be very insightful for managers and business owners to understand their staff's personalities when dealing with timelines and their own workloads for realistic expectations on work production.
For example I had an employee that was sweet, great with our patients, and knew how to do her job, but she was a chatter bug to the max.
This not only interfered with regards to her managing time, but it also interfered with everyone else in the office being able to manage their time too.
When her "excessive talking" was brought to her attention, she did see the issues it caused and said she would try to cut back on her talking.
Then she made this statement "I am a talkative person it is just who I am and I cannot change who I am.
" I do hope this young lady eventually learned this lesson, I don't know because she did continue to allow her "talkative personality" to influence how she was able to manage her time at work and she was let go.
Being a "chatter box" or better known as a "Chatty Cathy" at work is one of the top 5 time management personality influenced problems that office managers and business owners deal with.
The other four are: 1.
Perry the Pleaser - This is someone who cannot say "no" to anything that is asked of them or that they volunteer to do.
They over commit and under deliver every time.
What is sad is in the workplace this person eventually ends up getting fired for not being able to do their job, when in reality if they were just doing their job they would probably do well.
They just have the tendency to take on more than what they are realistically able to do, until they become so overburdened and ultimately buried.
2.
Christy Crisis - Everyday there is some sort of crisis that needs to be handled.
This personality type spends more time creating a crisis over what they need to do than they do trying to take care of it.
A simple task of getting a needed referral becomes an emergency and overwhelming task, which the whole office needs to know about.
This person makes it sound like they are achieving a lot, but in reality it is all hype, very little is being accomplished and they emotionally drain everyone around them.
3.
Laid-back Lonnie - Now this personality type is usually very pleasant to work with as nothing ruffles their feathers.
But on the other hand, you need to light a fire under them in order to get and keep them moving.
They are not self-starters and take a lot of effort by management to keep them going.
They can look busy, but don't let them fool you; they are just waiting for their paycheck.
4.
Pam the Perfectionist - This was mentioned above and although striving for perfection is a good thing, it is when it's an obsession that it becomes a problem.
This person could do twice the amount of work in the time that they waste trying to do one thing perfectly.
Time management is very hard for this personality type because of how hard it is for them to realize what they might call just a "good job" is probably really a "great job" but not in their eyes.
Although they may be good at what they do, they do not do as much as they could.
Many companies use personality profiling when they do their hiring interviews so that they can get insight into the prospective candidates and are able to avoid some of the personality issues as discussed above once hired.
It is not that we really need to change our personality as much as we need to find that balance of being able to manage our personality and its affect on our being able to manage our time at work.
Once you recognize which of your personality traits affect how you manage your time you can start to make the changes needed to become more time wise and work efficient.
"One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
With so many things on our plate each day how do we fit it all in? We must first remember that we cannot "really" manage time as the seconds will continue to tick away and there is no stopping them or bringing them back.
Instead what we can do is to "really" manage what we do with our time.
If managing your time is something that you struggle with you might want to take a look at your personality type for some helpful insights into why.
If you are someone who is a perfectionist, then you will probably never feel that you manage your time exactly right.
You will always fall short of your perfect expectations.
Or if you are someone who over commits themselves, always wanting to please others, how will you ever have enough time to do everything you have committed yourself to? When you begin to understand how your personality can affect how you manage your time, it will help you to be able to work "with your time" more realistically within the constraints of your personality type.
A flip side to this is that it could be very insightful for managers and business owners to understand their staff's personalities when dealing with timelines and their own workloads for realistic expectations on work production.
For example I had an employee that was sweet, great with our patients, and knew how to do her job, but she was a chatter bug to the max.
This not only interfered with regards to her managing time, but it also interfered with everyone else in the office being able to manage their time too.
When her "excessive talking" was brought to her attention, she did see the issues it caused and said she would try to cut back on her talking.
Then she made this statement "I am a talkative person it is just who I am and I cannot change who I am.
" I do hope this young lady eventually learned this lesson, I don't know because she did continue to allow her "talkative personality" to influence how she was able to manage her time at work and she was let go.
Being a "chatter box" or better known as a "Chatty Cathy" at work is one of the top 5 time management personality influenced problems that office managers and business owners deal with.
The other four are: 1.
Perry the Pleaser - This is someone who cannot say "no" to anything that is asked of them or that they volunteer to do.
They over commit and under deliver every time.
What is sad is in the workplace this person eventually ends up getting fired for not being able to do their job, when in reality if they were just doing their job they would probably do well.
They just have the tendency to take on more than what they are realistically able to do, until they become so overburdened and ultimately buried.
2.
Christy Crisis - Everyday there is some sort of crisis that needs to be handled.
This personality type spends more time creating a crisis over what they need to do than they do trying to take care of it.
A simple task of getting a needed referral becomes an emergency and overwhelming task, which the whole office needs to know about.
This person makes it sound like they are achieving a lot, but in reality it is all hype, very little is being accomplished and they emotionally drain everyone around them.
3.
Laid-back Lonnie - Now this personality type is usually very pleasant to work with as nothing ruffles their feathers.
But on the other hand, you need to light a fire under them in order to get and keep them moving.
They are not self-starters and take a lot of effort by management to keep them going.
They can look busy, but don't let them fool you; they are just waiting for their paycheck.
4.
Pam the Perfectionist - This was mentioned above and although striving for perfection is a good thing, it is when it's an obsession that it becomes a problem.
This person could do twice the amount of work in the time that they waste trying to do one thing perfectly.
Time management is very hard for this personality type because of how hard it is for them to realize what they might call just a "good job" is probably really a "great job" but not in their eyes.
Although they may be good at what they do, they do not do as much as they could.
Many companies use personality profiling when they do their hiring interviews so that they can get insight into the prospective candidates and are able to avoid some of the personality issues as discussed above once hired.
It is not that we really need to change our personality as much as we need to find that balance of being able to manage our personality and its affect on our being able to manage our time at work.
Once you recognize which of your personality traits affect how you manage your time you can start to make the changes needed to become more time wise and work efficient.
"One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.
" - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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