Recipe 11 - Know Your Time Management

Time management skills are essential because it is rare to have enough time to do everything asked of you or that you want to get done. You need to use your time productively and efficiently—but what if you already are and still can’t get everything done? 

The only resource you can never recover is time. As a Start-Up with limited resources, it is extremely important to manage your time. You are doing a bit of everything and everything takes time. The question is where you invest it (like any other resource) and how much time should be allocated to tasks and activities. Additionally, losing focus on key and strategy implementation could take you off your path and into a time-sucking detour. 

In Recipe 11, you will learn how using effective time management can allow you to accomplish more in a shorter time frame through productively prioritizing activities. The pay-off in flexibility and less stress is more valuable than you might think now.

• Recipe: Time Management, to understand time from a different perspective, set structures for time management in your Start-Up, ensure ownership is crystal clear from the smallest to the biggest tasks, and invest in technology tools for maximum team productivity.

• Recipes: Meetings (Leadership, All-hands, Board), to run meetings smoothly with structure and discipline, outline the agenda, develop the topic templates, and effectively send out meeting invites.

• Recipes: ESG Reporting, to define ESG and its pillars, know the 17 SDGs, determine and prioritize ESG activities, set your ESG goals, and determine your ESG reporting structure.

• Recipe: Artificial Intelligence (AI), to assess where you can make use of AI solutions, apps, or plug-ins, conduct a recurring review of technologies, frameworks, and standards to stay current with trends, best practices, and options, and document key areas to focus on for implementing AI

• Template: Time Management, to calculate the real value of your time, consider current system constraints, how to prevent people drift, and what technology and tools to invest in to support productivity.

• Templates: Meetings for Leadership, All-hands, Board presentations, to document agenda templates, reporting templates, and streamlined meeting invitations.

• Template: ESG Reporting, to document your reasoning for investing in people, the planet, and corporate governance, your ESG highlights and priorities, how you will work with such topics as diversity, discrimination, health, and safety goals, how you will protect the planet through minimizing your Start-Up's impact on the environment, how you will work with corporate governance through such topics as board diversity, transparency, anti-corruption, and protection of property rights, and how you will develop your ESG scorecard for objective measurement.

• Template: Artificial Intelligence (AI), to document AI best practices, how to leverage AI in marketing, sales, customer success, and product, industry trends for AI, and conduct an in-house AI inventory.

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