It feels like there is never enough time
When faced with an overwhelming list of things to be done, good time management is essential. Marketing your business is essential for its long term health, but there is always a long list of immediate and pressing tasks when running a rural hospital. All too often if it isn’t at the top of the list, it doesn’t happen.
Strategies for time management
What you need is a strategy for time management. There are many proven methods to ensure that low-priority doesn’t become no-priority.
- Block time at regular intervals
- Set deadlines for low priority tasks
- Invest in optimization
Blocking time
This strategy is to make a deliberate decision about what amount of time is right for your organization to focus on marketing. Make a commitment that you will spend per month. Then, schedule that time on your team’s calendar.
With experience, you can adjust the time allotted up or down to meet your needs, but always make a deliberate decision, don’t just react to the events of the moment.
Setting deadlines
Deadlines are the go-to means for getting something done. Deadlines for lower priority work should allow more time than you would for higher priority tasks. This offers the flexibility to react to other, more critical tasks while keeping your marketing efforts on track. That said, treat these deadlines with the same seriousness off any other in your organization or this strategy won’t work.
Investing in optimization
Like any task, Marketing can be done efficiently, and it can be done inefficiently. If you spend time upfront investing in streamlining your process, you will get great returns down the line by getting more done in less time. Make process improvement a goal, not just a desire.
And if you can’t invest the time, then consider investing a little money. SRJEasyHealthcare.com is designed to make the most of your staff’s time by doing as much of the time-consuming work for you as possible.