9 Time Management Tactics to Increase Productivity

Guest post By: Mike Schultz, President, RAIN Group
With the nonstop interruptions and distractions, too many people have lost complete control of their work days. They get sucked into other people’s meetings and priorities, they take on the work of their staff, or they’re at the mercy of what their boss tells them to do and when.
If you want to be as productive as possible at work, you need to take back control of your time.
While there’s no shortage of time management tactics and tips, here are nine of the most impactful tactics I’ve found in my research and in helping clients become extremely productive.
9 Time Management Tactics
Obsess Over TIME: If you want to control your time, you need to obsess over where you’re spending it. RAIN Group created the four categories of TIME—treasured, investment, mandatory, and empty. The idea is to minimize mandatory and empty time and maximize treasured and