Do you find yourself wondering where the morning (or day) went and realizing that you didn’t accomplish your most important task?
Here are some tips for maximizing your focus, efficiency and results at work:
Tip 1: Break your day in to chunks of time. Many clients discover chunking their time makes a big difference in their ability to accomplish the important tasks. We can easily get pulled into checking emails, answering the phone, etc. only to realize that an hour or more has past.
Try allowing 50 minutes per hour for solid, intense concentration on a project, then 10 minutes to check for urgent emails and voicemail. Every
3-4 hours, allot 30 minutes for returning calls and emails which require more attention.
Tip 2: Set time limits. To quote Wikipedia: “Parkinson’s Law states that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” Limited to 15 minutes? You’ll focus intently to complete the task. Have an hour?
You’ll tend take a more leisurely pace to complete this same task.
Tip 3: Develop a list of things you can achieve in 5, 15, 30, and 60 minutes. Have 5 minutes before needing to run off to a meeting? Look at your list to see what you can do. Perhaps catch up on filing. Fifteen minutes? Make that call or respond to a few emails.
Thirty minutes?
Check in with an employee. How is s/he coming along with the project you delegated? If you have an hour, this is perfect for diving into a project.
Action: Experiment with these ideas. What are 2 changes you’ll implement to be more efficient?
Please share your results! (Send your results to: nyman@consultant.com)
~ Gwyneth Anne~
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