Thanks, Marilyn,
How do you plan to alter your co-workers' behavior without hurting feelings or causing resentment?
Holly,
The ability to close one's door and not feel guilty is a key to good time management.
I plan on stopping co-workers who come in to chat. I think if I get with them on breaks or lunch I will stay on task.
Sometimes my Co-workers and students stop in to "just say hi" or "catch up". I enjoy this and like to establish the relationships, but build in cloaed door time to complete task without interruptions.
Robert,
Good points. A good strategy, when over used, may become a detriment. Eventually, we actually have to stop planning and start doing.
I agree that we all can strive to be more productive, or efficient in our professional and/or business lives. I sometimes wonder that if we spend to much time analyzing time spent, and priorities, that we may actually be spending more time than we would need to actually get the daily job done. If one makes out a priority list daily, and calculates all the time required for each task, records all the time spent, analyzes why a task took more or less time than estimated, that could become a significant time consumer. It could almost become a paralysis by analysis.
Thanks, Janelle.
Setting up a reward system seems loke a pretty effective system for you.
I have become much better about time wasters. I consistently break up tasks into manageable parts. Once I have completed one part, I reward myself by checking email or facebook. I only give myself 5 minutes though to do this in order to stay on task. I find that I am much more productive during my work time because I have allocated additional time for these other tasks.
My time-wasters are not prioritizing my daily task. I hit the ground running when I get into my office. If I just take a few minutes to set my prioritized on my daily task, I will be in much better shape. I get interrupted with student issues and sometimes forget where I left off at.
Taking this Time Management course really help me in organizing my daily and weekly activities.
Is doing things over and over again. Example
I hand write goal list on a paper,them put it on my calender in microsoft, then I put the same list again on my blacl berry ...etc.
Meeting wit h each staff one on one to go over general subject mater. Meeting in a group would be more time efficent. Only meeting one on one when it is more spfic to that one persons
Allen,
What are some conscious things you do to keep from being derailed by these folks?
People who stop me in the break room when i go for coffee to talk about non relavent things or to talk about the " Did you hear what so and so said or did?"Try to avoid lol
Thanks, valencia.
What are some of your more common distractors?
Thank you, Valencia.
What factors would make you decide that a face-to-face discussion is more appropriate than email?
I usually use email also, because that way they can answer it when it is a good time for them.
One of my biggest time-wasters would be getting distracted. If I am working on something and get distracted, I have a really bad problem getting back on task.
Thanks, Jason. I hope it works well for you.
Probably how to break my tasks down into managable chunks, and then prioritize them. I think that has been the main key i have been missing.
Thanks, Jason.
Which of the principles from the course do you feel will make a difference as you battle procrastination?
I would have to say my biggest time waster is procrastination. It doesnt consume a great deal of time, but I know I do it. I tend to get overwhelmed with stuff to do, and trying to find a starting place seems impossible. So I procrastinate. But I am going to try and apply some of the priciples i learned in time management to help with this problem more effectively.
