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The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

CNLP 768 | The Leadership Time Trap: How to Multiply Results Without Adding Hours

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

Carey Nieuwhof

Management, Business

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In this episode, you'll learn a fresh perspective on exactly where your time goes, how to cut the investments where you're least effective, and multiply your time investments in the activities that generate the most results.

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0:00.0

The Art of Leadership Network. Well, think about your week, right? What are you doing that doesn't require

0:06.4

much from you, but also doesn't produce much for the kingdom? Now, you can spend, I say it doesn't

0:12.1

require much, but you can spend, honestly, 10, 15 hours a week, just spinning your wheels,

0:17.1

doing administrivia, that doesn't go anywhere. So, you know, maybe it's social media disguised as

0:22.9

staying connected, but you check your screen time and it's like, whew, that was a lot, okay? Or lunch

0:28.3

meetings with people who want to pick your brain, but never apply anything and it never

0:32.3

accomplishes anything. Or programs you keep running at your church, we've always done it even though nobody's

0:38.9

life is changing. See, all of that is energy that could be invested elsewhere. Same with admin

0:44.2

tasks. You do yourself because it's easier than training somebody else.

0:52.5

Welcome to the Kerry Newhoff Leadership Podcast.

0:54.9

Carrie here. I'm so glad you joined us. And a welcome to all of the new leaders that are

1:00.4

joining us. Today, we're going to talk about your time. We're going to talk about the leadership

1:05.3

time trap. It's something I've been caught in. It's something I counsel a lot of leaders. I see

1:10.3

them trapped in it. And it's

1:11.5

basically how to multiply results without adding hours. So if you're interested in that, I think you're

1:17.6

going to appreciate today's episode. It's all about the time trap that so many of us find

1:24.0

ourselves in. And I think technology has made this more complicated, not easier.

1:28.5

So if you want to multiply results without adding hours, stay tuned. The framework I share with you

1:34.3

is something that I'm calling the investment reward matrix. And it's built on two simple axes,

1:40.5

the investment of time that something requires and the reward it produces. This is something

1:46.9

that you can actually apply to all of your tasks. So a lot of pastors I talk to are exhausted. Doesn't matter

1:53.7

whether you're leading a church of 50 or 5,000. It's tiring. And when I ask them what they

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