Would You Happen To Have the Time?

In this weeks reading of Measure What Matters, Paine spoke on perfect measures. There are seven steps one can take called, "the seven steps to perfect measure. Those seven steps are:

1. Define your goals and objectives
2. Define your environment
3. Define your investment
4. Determine your benchmark
5. Define your key performance indicators
6. Select the right measurement tools/vendors and collect data
7. Turn data into action

After completing the steps it's important to present your results to your supervisor, professionally and successfully. To be successful at this, you will need to use every persuasive bone you have in your body, doing so will give you more exposure to more major projects and tasks.Visuals, such as graphs and charts, are important when presenting results, and Paine also gave advice on a some key actions when presenting your results to your boss:

• Ask for money 
• Get commitment 
• Manage time 
• Buy influence
• Get outside help
• Just say no

Of those six key actions time management stuck out to me the most. Not just because it's the end of the semester and there seems to be not enough time in the day, but because literally everyone struggles with it. It's a key that is often overlooked when it shouldn't be. You can manage your time by making a deadline for your tasks, goals within that deadline, and making time efficient goals within those goals. Basically, time makes or breaks the entire operation, so if you don't have time you don't have anything.