Tips to manage your time effectively and increase your productivity
Do you ever feel like you have too much to do and not enough time? Take a look at these Houzz tips to help you hone your time management skills and increase projects productivity. Houzz Pro, the all-in-one marketing and management solution, allows you to save time and increase efficiency.
Tips to save time
1. LOG YOUR TIME
If you’re wondering where the time goes, it’s a good idea to take note of how you spend your day, logging all the activities you do, and detailing how much time you spend on each task.
2. WRITE A REALISTIC TO-DO LIST
List tasks in order of importance and break down larger jobs into smaller tasks. Be realistic: a list that can’t be done in a day will demotivate you. Having an organised plan for your day is the best way to improve your time management, but do remember to allow space for the unexpected.
3. IDENTIFY YOUR PEAK TIMES
When do you do your best work? Where you can, schedule your most challenging or important tasks during your peak-performance times.
4. COMMUNICATION IS KEY!
Delegating tasks and ensuring thorough communication with both your team and clients will make projects more organised and run smoothly.
5. CUT DOWN ON THE MULTI-TASKING
How many times have you tried to do more than one job at the same time? Try to avoid this and give each task the focus it needs.
With Houzz Pro You Can
MANAGE YOUR PROJECTS WITH AN OVERVIEW
The Houzz Pro Dashboard allows easy communication with your clients to help them visualise timelines, keep on top of messages, updates and more. Time and Expense Tracking let you easily create and manage all of your time and expense entries and include them in your billing. The Project Timeline helps you create a Gantt chart-inspired visual timeline so your clients and team can see project stages, due dates and more.
SHARE YOUR CALENDAR TO SCHEDULE CONSULTATIONS
Where do you keep track of your booked meetings? Keeping them all in one (digital) place will ensure you never double-book! Sync your calendar to Houzz Pro and allow clients to book in time that you are free, set up meetings and schedule video consultations.
COLLABORATE EASILY WITH CLIENTS
Houzz Pro allows you to manage your contact list and store it all in one place. Easily upload clients’ details from previous projects into one organised place.
CREATE PROPOSALS AND QUOTES IN A FEW CLICKS
No more back-and-forth with proposals as an attachment or written on a paper. With Houzz Pro, you can create quotes for projects, build a payment schedule, send automatic payment requests and keep track of what payments have come through.
You can download these useful tips as a PDF document by clicking here.
