It’s fair to say that CEOs are busy people. According to Harvard Business Review, time management is often reported as one of their biggest challenges. It’s easy to understand why. If it’s not balancing meetings with fellow executives, it’s dealing with stakeholders, meeting with the board or giving a strategic overview for a variety of different issues.
There’s a lot to be done and that’s before all the endless meetings are taken into account. It’s no wonder that as many as 70 percent of executives openly spoke about leaving their jobs due to burnout.
With meetings such a dominant factor in any CEO's schedule, it seems like the obvious thing to fix in order to reduce stress and make for a much happier and more productive leader. Whether scheduling on your own or with the help of an executive assistant, there are a number of efficiency tools here to help. Here are our five tips for mastering executive time management.