This article contains an efficiency analysis checklist to assist principals to control sources of time loss and to save time when performing routine daily activities and motivational, interpersonal activities. (Author/DS)

Practical strategies to help principals manage their time more effectively are offered in this guidebook. Because superintendents' expectations of principals' duties often contrast with the amount of time principals actually expend in performing various duties, this lack of understanding and time results in the "hurried principal syndrome."…