6. Monitor and Evaluate Progress (Top Tips for Time Management)

It is important to continuously monitor and evaluate the progress on tasks, deliverables and goals to determine whether they will be completed within their specified time frames. This enables a business or employer to:

·         Identify important tasks which are unaddressed or slow in progress and approaching their deadlines which can be rescheduled or increased in level of urgency and priority

·         Identify low or no priority tasks which are taking up more than their scheduled time which can be delegated or investigated to determine how they can be reduced in frequency or eliminated

·         Determine whether deliverables and goals will be achieved within their specified time frames or whether these time frames need to be amended

There are various ways of monitoring and evaluating the progress on tasks, deliverables and goals. It is recommended that a business determines and implements a methodology that is practical and best suited to their business or industry. Here are a few examples:

·         Create dashboards or scorecards

·         Regular progress meetings

·         % completion method for each task/deliverable/goal