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Time Management Breakthroughs: Blending Human Insight with AI

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Time Management Formula

HI + AI = Breakthrough Time Strategies

Allow me to translate the formula above. 

It’s not math. It’s leadership. The blend of old-school awareness and new-school tools is where real breakthroughs happen.

HI is Human Insight.  Years ago, we didn’t need to differentiate between HI and AI.

AI  of course, is Artificial Intelligence 

Now, here is an approach for gaining Breakthrough Time Strategies. 

leader frustrated with Time Management asking "where does all my time go?"

Where Does All My Time Go?

We ask ourselves this rhetorical question when things don’t get done. We use it to vent our frustration.  But we rarely seek a detailed answer.  We’re already overwhelmed and thinking…

“That answer could take a lot of time that I don’t have.”  

Because our time is our most scarce resource, it pays to occasionally pause to take inventory to gain real answers for where our time goes.  

Time to Take Inventory?

The next time you impatiently ask yourself, “Where did my time go?”

Consider investing a little time to come up with a quality answer.  This is NOT a prompt for ChatGPT.  It is a proven, Old School, paper-and-pen exercise. 

The Proven Process

  • Download and print five copies of this Daily Time Usage Form.  Onc copy for each workday. 
  • Fill in your time categories in the top row
  • Log the amount of time spent in each 30-minute period of your day for five successive days. 
  • Each day, total your time for each category

There’s your answer!

You should then anayze which activities are draining your time unnecessarily and work to minimize them.

Time Use Grid Form
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What's Next? A New School Answer

Armed with your answers for time usage. ask yourself…

  • Where are the best opportunities for automation?
  • How might I use AI to shorten my tasks?
  • How much time might be saved? 

Next, capture your Return on Investment by asking…

What will this newfound time enable me to do that I can’t do now? 

Human Probes for a New Mindset

By gaining these answers, you’re not outsourcing your job. You’re supercharging your capabilities.  And, making yourself more indispensable. 

Allow yourself to shift from being a task-doer to a strategic leader. To guide your team and ensure project success.

With that change in mindset, prompt yourself: 

What is the most tedious task that you could turn over to your AI partner?
How can you develop the skills needed to lead these new partners more effectively?

 

Breakthrough Time Strategies: The Payoff

Time is the one resource you can’t manufacture more of. But you can make better choices with the time you already have. By combining Human Insight with AI, you create a sharper picture of where your hours go and how to reclaim them.

The real breakthrough isn’t just saving time, it’s how you reinvest that time. Will you use it to strengthen relationships? Shape strategy? Elevate your team? That choice defines your leadership.

Breakthrough Time Strategies don’t just clear your calendar. They clear the way for you to lead at your best.

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