Do you often feel overwhelmed by how much you have to do?

This is a short quick fire episode where I answer a question I hear most frequently from creative agency account managers.

The subject of productivity, time management and general overwhelm with number of tasks needed to be completed comes up a lot.

Often being stuck managing the day to day firefighting distracts us from doing the things that are more valuable like thinking about ways of adding more value to the client’s business, looking at trends, working on client relationship expansion, client development planning etc.

So here are 10 tips (plus an extra bonus one I added!) for ensuring you get as much of your Day to day workload completed as possible so it frees up space to do more thinking and planning.

Account managers who want promotion to account director realise the only way they can work on more strategic tasks (client development plans, solving client business & communications challenges) is to be more time efficient.

Let me know if these tips have been helpful and please share any others you’ve found beneficial so I can share with everyone else.