Time management is often one of the most difficult skills to master, regardless of your role. When you’re tasked with managing a staff and organizing the functions of a business, however, you not only have to manage your time, but you must also ensure that your team has access to the resources it needs in order to deliver quality products and services in a timely fashion. This, of course, is especially trying for management experiencing the early stages of business growth, as it is expected to do more with fewer resources.

Four effective time-management tips for HR professionals

1. Develop a system of work prioritization

As an HR manager, you’re tasked with keeping operations afloat. In order to ensure that you’re living up to your fullest potential, start by mapping out a plan and developing a system of work prioritization at the start of each week. The benefit of having a concrete process for completing tasks is simple: You will head off inefficiency at the source, which will ultimately keep you more organized. With a more streamlined approach for managing your tasks, you will get more of your day back so you can focus on your organization’s bottom line.

2. Upgrade your time- and labor-management process

While we’re on the topic of inefficiency, consider doing away with manual time sheets. If you’re in charge of manually entering your time and reviewing approving employee time sheets, then you have likely experienced errors and frustration at the tedious task. While time sheets are crucial for managing your employees’ time and invoicing clients based on those billable hours, there is a more efficient way to gain insight into your employees’ workday. With an online time- and labor-management module, you can eliminate the need for spreadsheets and gain real-time visibility over your entire organization.

3. Streamline your onboarding process for new hires

When you hire employees that not only value the company’s mission and vision, but also align with its culture, you will have the comfort of knowing that your new hires will ultimately contribute to company growth and support your bottom line. But with increased pressures and the costs of recruiting, employers look to fill positions with the promise of valuable experience, insights, and relationships with potential clients instead. By identifying the desires and abilities that make up successful criteria for candidates, employers can streamline the hiring process and maximize the successful candidate’s future role in the company.

4. Delegate responsibilities

Trust is something that can take time, especially when it comes to trusting your staff to complete tasks that you’re responsible for overseeing. But if you can learn to delegate, you will ultimately get more accomplished. In fact: “One of the biggest drains on productivity is that we take on more than we are capable of accomplishing,” say Lara Galloway and Erin Baebler of Fast Company. “It can be hard to relinquish control, but doing so gives us the opportunity to work on what matters most while allowing someone else to handle the rest.” And if your onboarding process is streamlined, you can ensure that your staff is competent and can support your role.