Top 3 Steps To Prioritise 150+ Calendar Invites A Week (As A Consultant)

Endless calendar invites, back to back meetings, overwhelming diary. I share some tips on how I manage my calendar as a consultant.

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As a consulting manager with a few parallel running projects, there are endless issues to be dealt with at priority.

This can get quite overwhelming, to say the least, especially in this pandemic when everyone’s working remotely.

Part of my project is also being delivered from offshore hence there are time differences to be accounted for.

The following is a process that I created that’s serving me well. This helps me to prioritise my work stack and reduce noise.

I Broadly Follow These 3 Principles:

#1 Reducing attendance at recurring meetings

#2 Categorising important meetings

#3 Prioritising the calendar a week in advance

Let’s deep dive into each of these principles.

#1 Reducing Attendance At Recurring Meetings

As I had multiple projects running simultaneously, there were numerous recurring meetings…