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Suggest Better Work Habits

If a fairy godmother could grant 25-hour days, some people would probably fritter away the extra hour. The average American worker squanders two hours of an eight-hour workday, according to an AOL/ Salary.Com survey. That’s about twice what employers expected. And that nonproductive time doesn’t even include lunch or breaks.

Some employees have a difficult time with time management, and they aren’t going to improve until you help them. You’re probably in a good position to do so because many entrepreneurs are excellent time managers. They have to be. Give procrastinators hints of how they can parse a project into manageable pieces and determine how much time they’ll need for each phase. That’s also an excellent strategy for helping them to envision how a project unfolds from the present into the future. Time then becomes something they can see. And it ceases to become a shapeless mass that mysteriously slips away each day.