6 Helpful Scheduling Tips

Are you looking for some scheduling tips to help you better manage your calendar?

Do you need help streamlining events and engagements in your schedule?

You may not have thought about it before, but there is skill involved when it comes to scheduling meetings and appointments.

You must be thoughtful about which event you place in your calendar and where.

And what’s the benefit of having a carefully created calendar?

You’ll save yourself time, energy, and money!

In this post, you’ll find six smart tips to help you schedule appointments and meetings into your calendar.

Schedule break time between meetings and appointments.

Back-to-back meetings can be downright exhausting.

So what’s the solution? Give yourself a break!

Do your best to schedule a five to fifteen minute break between meetings when you can.

You can use this time to use the restroom, make a photocopy, or review some documents.

Other ideas include following up with an order, make a quick phone call, or walk to the conference room.

What’s more, having taken a much-needed break, you’ll feel refreshed and ready to tackle your next meeting.

Send meeting invites.

Streamline the scheduling process by sending out meeting invites via email in programs such as Microsoft Outlook or Google Calendar.

With just a few clicks, you can invite attendees, set a date, time, location, and provide general meeting notes or information.

Attendees can either accept or decline meetings. Once someone has accepted a meeting, it will appear in their calendar.

Should you have to update meeting information, you can easily resend updated meeting information.

Time block yourself.

Time blocking is a time management method in which you set aside a specific amount of time to complete a certain task.

It’s quite easy to do. Simply identify a task you’d like to complete, and schedule time to complete the task.

Here’s an example of this in action. If you needed to finish writing an article and do some filing at work, you could set aside an hour to write the article, followed by an hour of filing.

Set recurring events in your calendar.

Do you have a weekly or monthly meeting at work or at school?

Save yourself some time by adding recurring events into your digital or online calendar.

This way, you won’t have to re-enter items into your schedule, or worry about accidental double-bookings.

Should a meeting be cancelled, or rescheduled, you can just as easily delete, or adjust the meeting.

Set specific times for meetings.

Be specific when it comes to arranging meeting times and length.

Sweeping generalizations aren’t very helpful when you’re trying to match up schedules!

So, instead of saying, “Oh, let’s meet for a couple of minutes in the afternoon,” you’d want to say something like, “Let’s meet from 2 P.M. to 2:30 P.M.”

This makes it clear to both you, and any other attendees, as to when the meeting will take place.

Schedule personal time for yourself.

Feel like you have no time for yourself during the week?

Set aside some personal time in your calendar. This gives you the space you need to relax, decompress, and just escape from the world for a while.

Go ahead and block out a couple of hours for yourself during the weekday and weekend.

It doesn’t matter what you do during this time, you could meditate, soak in the bathtub, catch up on your favorite podcasts, build a bird house, or bake a cake.

How about you? What do you find to be the most challenging aspect of scheduling appointments and meetings? Join the conversation and leave a comment below!

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Rashelle

Rashelle Isip is a New York City-based productivity consultant who helps successful entrepreneurs and business owners manage their time and energy so they can reduce stress, work less, and make more money in their businesses. She has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, NBC News, The Washington Post, NPR, and The Atlantic. Get her free guide, 5 Unexpected Things You Need to Organize a Work Notebook, by clicking here.

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