Showing posts with label time. Show all posts
Showing posts with label time. Show all posts

Time management Tips

Through small everyday actions we can greatly increase productivity at work.

Below I present the following time management tips

1. Clear your desk and planned activities for the next day.

2. Determine the time you dedicate to each activity. After making the list complete, determines which are priority activities at home or at work, and starts with them.

3. Then make sure you determinaste well the time you spend for each task, including the time spent on breaks or unforeseen events that they may occur.

4. The tasks more difficult first, while you're more willing and finally the smaller tasks, since you're more tired at the end of the day.

5. Sets deadlines for all tasks and notes when you've finished each one of them. Not extending the time for important tasks, since there will be less difficult to give them more time.

6. Recalls that you record hours and specific deadlines for everyday tasks, such as reading, answering e-mails, fax and update reports, talk with the team, and so on.

7. Try to set times where are you not allowed to be annoyed, unless in case of real emergencies.

8. Plan your phone calls. Make a sketch of what you need to say and what you need to know. If you need to make several calls, it's doing everything in the same period of time already default for this activity.

9. When you start to do a job, finish it. If you leave it for later, you risk losing a lot of time to recover.

10. Plan on short rest periods, that match the hours in which you feel less productive.

11. Take your time to discuss matters of routine with your colleagues, this will prevent you to be interrupted at any time.

12 Learn to say no. Ask yourself: am I the person suitable for this job? The use of the word "no" is a truly effective tool to save time. Learn how to politely but firmly reject any request that does not seem essential to achieve results.

13. Monitors how to best use the time, your work fits your behavior.

14. The stress and fatigue are often caused by bad activities or a bad time management.

15. Get the habit of finish as planned at the end of the day or before leaving the House.

How to better organize your time?

Techniques to better organize your time.

Make a plan
You know what is one of the biggest dangers when you have so many different commitments? Of overlap. You are having to do two things together, and you wonder why you do not have the gift of ubiquity.

To avoid this problem, you must take a calendar and mark all your commitments.

You can use the classic paper, I am fine with one online (Google Calendar), choose you. The important thing is to keep it always with you and update it with whatever occupy your time. Tip: include every now and then also a few moment of relaxation!

Multitasking
Multitasking hurts, I said and I repeat. But there are some tasks that take time without require you to think, and then you can do more things in one.

For example, when I'm on the bus I took the habit of dozing. I no longer have time to do the Polyphasic sleep as it should, so I folded up this strategy. Resting for those 40 bonus minutes per day I sleep less at night, which gives me more time to do the rest.

Optimize
Your business may require much less time than you think. In everything you do, you are not 100% effective.

This is a legacy from past years, when you could blame relatively calmly since we had to time wasting. This habit has been, and is now affecting people who can devote time to yourself.

Make a careful analysis of what you do and how you do it. There is definitely the way to increase your effectiveness.

Simplifies
Do you remember my article on Pareto principle? The 70% of results are obtained in 30% of the time, the rest are details.

Be careful when you choose to work on something up to perfection, because it's damn ineffective. If you have little time to do everything, better stop at that 70%.

Here an example: have you noticed that my articles are a bit shorter lately? To tell you the truth, I hope not. Means that I cut in the right places.

I tried to reduce the frills and getting straight to the point, in order to save a bit of time to use for the other. Same content, but with a less pompous and more effective.

In addition to this, you have to learn how to simplify your life.

Life is simple, are you that you want to unnecessarily complicate. The Italians, then, I noticed that have the curious habit of complicate anything.

Swims a bit ' counter and make yourself things simpler, for a change.

Technical file
But I call it pure Hamster technique. This is the name that I gave to a simple and effective strategy.

In a day there are 24 hours, which if you think about it there are few. You just "cut" a bit of time to this task, some from the other, and you soon find an hour of bonus time.

Make a list of what you have to do tomorrow, look at how they fit together. 10 minutes then remove from anything. You want to be, are 10 minutes! However, you'll see that eventually you will find yourself with more time.