When looking to manage time effectively, you need to start by developing a set of skills that will make it easier for you to manage your time.

The set of skills to develop will depend a lot on what your case is, and that is why you have to start by identifying which competencies you should enhance depending on how relevant they are for your specific job.

Once you have correctly identified them, you can focus on improving them. The development of skills in specific competencies that are relevant to you will significantly increase your efficiency and productivity. Having certain skills in line with your tasks will allow you to perform them much more quickly and accurately, and together they will undoubtedly be a great help to better manage your time.

Try making two parallel lists. One with the skills needed for your job role or for your daily performance, and the other with those you already have. You can even add a third column evaluating each one, so you can determine which of them you need to pay more attention to.

Here it is important to remember that these may not only be specific technical skills but also soft skills such as communication or decision making. Of course, after that assessment you will need to spend some time on training and professional development in these areas. But as soon as you incorporate these new skills or integrate these improved skills into your routine, you will have a very positive impact on your daily performance.

In addition, you should not only learn certain techniques and stay in theory, but you should also practice and learn to apply these skills, in order to consolidate and integrate your learning.

When it comes to enhancing or acquiring skills, you have multiple options. You can participate in courses, workshops and activities that allow you to continuously improve, you can read books on the subject, look for tips, videos, podcasts, and you could even ask an AI to prepare a training and evaluation program to acquire or improve these skills.

Be that as it may, try to have a proactive and practical approach, because it is not only about optimizing your time management, but enhancing those skills you need and in which you are weak, also allows you to be better prepared to face future challenges more effectively and efficiently, and therefore with more chances of success.