10:00 A.M. onward – planning time

As a manager, you will have several regular duties and responsibilities to take care of. Aside from attending a myriad of meetings, you also need to plan for your team and your project.

This planning goes beyond simply ensuring a timeline for the project's start and end dates, but also includes planning the financial and resources side, or even producing and updating Gantt and burn charts.

For this stage, where possible, you should get your team involved, not just to supply you with the information that you need, but also to help you to contribute to the decision-making and communication process in sharing the plan.