Time Management
As a manager I find myself more than often strugling with this issue, time management. One point presented during the course is the fact that regerdless of your level of education one may still not been a great manager of time. In retrospective if you take a look at our educational system we are not taugh how to properly managed our work schedule or personal life.
Too often senior managers assumed that education is equal to the ability of managing time and when the subordinate fails to meet deadlines rather than received guidance they are reprimand creating an unpleasant environment for both the senior manager and the subordinate manager.
I will conclude by suggesting that corporations need to help employees by investing some typa of resources in providing time-management training. It could be a very wisely decision.
Gale,
I understand where you are coming from. I told my new staff that I did not expect them to be on call 24-7. If I send them an email after work hours, they do not have to respond until the next work day. (They usually respond sooner, but it is their choice.) I also do not want them conducting business while driving.
Jeffrey Schillinger
I agree with you totally and I will add that the managers need to recognize that people are not machines. They cannot move at the pace of one's thoughts. Last minute anything is not exceptable unless it is an emergency. Everything is not an emergency all the time. Please be considerate of others. They deserve to have a life outside of the job.
