The major problem that I mentioned in pre-assignment two is my higher expectations out of others and the difficult time I have with time management. ... Because of this, I have a habit of over-seeing most tasks and in doing so; I let other tasks go until I have time to do them myself. ... It’s the more important task that I have a difficult time in assigning to others. ...
The more I think about this; perhaps my major problem should also include personnel management. ... If I correct my personnel problems and hire capable people that can perform up to my expectations, them that will free me up to be able to accomplish more without interruption. ... Sometimes I must spend time watching over the people doing the tasks, but a job well done is what I look forward to. ...
In The Leadership Handbook by Berkley, he gives quite a bit of good information about time management. On pages 73 and 74 he talks about recording your time. ... I think that the reason it never worked well is the fact that I had a lack of constant effort, of which Berkley also makes a similar statement of “only constant efforts at managing time can prevent drifting”. ... These five questions seem to help in a slight improvement is my time management difficulties. Berkley says, “These five diagnostic questions deal with unproductive and time consuming activities over which every pastor has some control. ... Then they can move on to the task of consolidating time for the most important tasks. ... Am I wasting the time of my employee to accomplish this task? ... The only time I have an excess number of meetings is during Christmas. The other questions though come in handy most of the time. ...
There are still a few other comments to be made about time management, but I am going to wait until I answer all of the pre-assignment questions. ... It seems that I spend most of my time giving direction and they never seem to grow enough to reach the next level. Even though it says that time is needed to reach the next level. ... The time it takes to accomplish this is what interferes with my time management. In giving them direction, coaching them and then in giving them support, I never seem to have enough time to accomplish my tasks. ... In doing so, I am troubled when things don’t work out, and by the constant problems that seem to occur because of my lowering my standards. ... As a pastor, I need to be compassionate in the way I handle problems with employees. Being a caring, compassionate leader is time consuming and difficult. ... If I eliminate some of my complacency, I can still be compassionate and hopefully I should be able to manage my time better. ... I need more prayer time before making difficult decisions. ... I need to use the first four questions in managing my time. ... Also I need to give some insight on how to correct their problems without being over bearing. ... I need to spend more time in giving direction to certain employees. ... I also need to spend more time with my personal devotion time and my prayer time. I need to learn to spend my devotion time without interruption, and then after it is finished, then handle the interruption. ...
I can improve in the amount of time I spend in personal devotions and prayer time. I sometimes spend too much time in administrative work and not enough time in God’s work. ... In doing so, I think that I will have more time to spend doing God’s work. ...
What I answered the first time still carries a lot of weight in what I need to do.
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