If your goal is to work smarter, then planning your work day is critical to not just crossing items off your to-do list, but seeing strategic goals and projects through to completion. To help you do that, here's how to use this time-blocking template.
- Add in all your meetings and appointments (ex. Your one-on-one meetings, team meetings, picking up the kids from school, personal appointments)
- Add in time for breaks
- Add in one hour in the morning and one hour in the afternoon to respond to emails, check-in with your team, and tackle any unexpected tasks or roadblocks.
- Before filling in the hours that are left open, consider which of your tasks are urgent versus important. Your schedule should be a mix of both so important items aren’t continuously shuffled to the bottom of the list.
- Then consider which of your tasks can be completed in one sitting versus which should be broken down into smaller tasks to make them more manageable.
- Now you are ready to fill in the hours that are left open with a mix of urgent and important tasks.
