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by Daniel Sima 11 years ago

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8 Ways to manage your time

Efficient time management at work requires setting clear priorities, allowing you to focus on tasks by their level of importance and urgency. Planning productively involves considering the feasibility of your plans and learning from others'

8 Ways to manage your time

8 Ways to manage your work time

Take notes

Use post it's or a mind map where you can gather random thoughts project, or non-project related
Stop forgetting ideas, write everything down
Do not disturb your workflow, take notes for later to do's

Find time for yourself

Organize and gather people to take a 30 to 60 minutes lunch break at noon
Allocate 5 minutes every hour in which you disconnect from your work and relax
Take short breakes when you find yourself blocked

Organize Workspace

Always prepare your workspace before you start working
Don't keep browser tabs open that don't have to do with your work
Try to have a minimum of papers on your desk

Delegate

Don't try to cover everything by yourself
Assign corect tasks to your colleagues
Have people from your staff take over some of your responsability

Phone and e-mail

Don't interupt yourself to check if somebody called. If you didn't hear it, it means it's not important
If your project doesn't depend on these too, shut them off.
Restrict yourself to limited usage of calls and emails that are not related to your project

Don't Delay

Always find 2 options for each action
Oversee troubles and include them your time frame
Respect your game plan

Plan Productively

Let colleagues or associates to come up with their own version and confront
See study cases from people that already experienced
Always check implemantation potential of your plan

Priorities

Order by time frame
Levels of importance
Help yourself by prioritizing