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Managing time demands: Francis Wade’s skill ladders

January 12th, 2023

For diagnosing problems with time management, the best thing I’ve found so far is Francis Wade’s idea of “skill ladders”, described in the 2014 Perfect Time-Based Productivity: How to rescue your peace of mind as time demands increase (Amazon; book website).

For instance, the “capturing” ladder has 7 levels, with the bottom “not even trying to commit tasks to memory” and the top “always using a backed up electronic device that is never far away”:

Skill ladder for capturing, from Francis Wade’s Perfect Time-Based Productivity: How to rescue your peace of mind as time demands increase

He lists multiple ladders:

A downloadable PDF form provides a checklist to identify where you are on each ladder.

A summary of his diagnosis-based approach to managing time demands is available from The Evergreen Guide to Choosing Your Next Task Management App (2017).

More recently he organized the Task Management & Time Blocking Virtual summit (2020 & 2021 & 2022, with the 2023 event planned for Thursday through Saturday March 2-4). You can find more of Francis Wade’s recent thinking via Framework Consulting and in his Quora answers.

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