Better Time Management!
4 August 2008
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The expression "workplace" is becoming less and less meaningful: executives work from home, in train stations or airports, hotel rooms, or on the beach in front of their vehicle...
New technologies did not create the phenomenon, but they have certainly contributed to amplifying it.
The time spent working is thus becoming increasingly difficult to quantify. Gold, the rare commodity, this precious time is lacking for you to handle everything.
It has therefore become essential to learn to master it in order to be less stressed and more efficient.
Yes, fundamental, time management....
Are you overloaded with work? Do you manage several files at the same time? Do you have multiple internal and external contacts? Deadlines that overlap? Do you need to work calmly to focus on certain files? Do you have trouble organizing yourself and completing all your tasks within the deadlines?
All these reasons mean that once the day is over, you find yourself with a To Do List that is still just as long! Result: you take work home with you!
Know, and this will reassure you, that it is not the quantity of time spent that matters, but its quality, hence the importance, for you, of learning to use your time effectively in order to definitively gain efficiency and thereby reduce your stress, which is detrimental to the quality of your work.
Optimize your work time
We all have, more or less, the same amount of time per day, at the office, to perform concrete tasks and achieve our objectives. The problem, often encountered, is that we find ourselves constantly interrupted by emergencies to manage, which prevent us from being able to reduce our task list…
To optimize your hours at the office and avoid taking work home with you, you must prioritize your tasks.
How to identify the real priorities among daily tasks, requests from others, unforeseen events and emergencies?
How to stay focused on your priorities and not get distracted?
Prioritizing means, in short, two essential things to consider:
Rank your tasks, projects, files, requests in order of: importance, urgency, execution chronology…
Make choices among all the things to do because there are not enough resources available: time, budget, available people, required skills, necessary equipment.
It's your turn!
The ReKrute.com Team
New technologies did not create the phenomenon, but they have certainly contributed to amplifying it.
The time spent working is thus becoming increasingly difficult to quantify. Gold, the rare commodity, this precious time is lacking for you to handle everything.
It has therefore become essential to learn to master it in order to be less stressed and more efficient.
Yes, fundamental, time management....
Are you overloaded with work? Do you manage several files at the same time? Do you have multiple internal and external contacts? Deadlines that overlap? Do you need to work calmly to focus on certain files? Do you have trouble organizing yourself and completing all your tasks within the deadlines?
All these reasons mean that once the day is over, you find yourself with a To Do List that is still just as long! Result: you take work home with you!
Know, and this will reassure you, that it is not the quantity of time spent that matters, but its quality, hence the importance, for you, of learning to use your time effectively in order to definitively gain efficiency and thereby reduce your stress, which is detrimental to the quality of your work.
Optimize your work time
We all have, more or less, the same amount of time per day, at the office, to perform concrete tasks and achieve our objectives. The problem, often encountered, is that we find ourselves constantly interrupted by emergencies to manage, which prevent us from being able to reduce our task list…
To optimize your hours at the office and avoid taking work home with you, you must prioritize your tasks.
How to identify the real priorities among daily tasks, requests from others, unforeseen events and emergencies?
How to stay focused on your priorities and not get distracted?
Prioritizing means, in short, two essential things to consider:
Rank your tasks, projects, files, requests in order of: importance, urgency, execution chronology…
Make choices among all the things to do because there are not enough resources available: time, budget, available people, required skills, necessary equipment.
It's your turn!
The ReKrute.com Team
