Welcome to Manager Tools. This week, in honor their holidays, a special Hall of Fame cast of

our Basics of Calendar Management, which is originally a two-part cast, but we've made it in

one for your listening convenience.

Learn how to handle your calendar.

It's not just a place where you put down meetings you've been invited to.

Here we go. Well, welcome to Manager Tools. Today's topic, The Basics of calendar management, part one of two. Oh, Hi everyone this is Mike and welcome back to manager tools. During today's

cast we described the first of our recommendations about calendar management.

Now we spent a lot of time talking to executive clients about how they spend their time and

how they manage their priorities through their calendars.

Several times over the past couple of years we've talked about how when we start coaching an executive, we asked for two things almost immediately.

First an accounting of what they consider their priorities and second a printout of their calendar. Now you gotta guess

where this is going right? They almost never match except with CEOs and COOs.

Now how do you think they got there? Well if you're thinking manager you're not asking why

but rather what can I do to avoid that? There are a few simple rules that get the most effective executives,

thanks to Mr. Peter Drucker,

started off well, and they start with thinking a week at a time.

Here we go caught ourselves saying time management and then immediately I mean priority management.

Yeah, yeah, definitely a billion times for me.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, at least a billion for me.

But you know, it's really easy to slip into that phrase.

We hear it so often that we start using it in our vernacular and of course there's a real danger the

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