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Regularly review long term goals for your personal and professional life. |
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Spent a few minutes, thinking about and planning your day before we started it. |
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Outline each days appointments and key tasks in your calender. |
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List your tasks and activities in priority order and concentrate on the top priorities. |
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Keep and use an on going 'To do' list. |
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Handle the important task of the day when you feel most alert. |
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Group similar tasks together and handle them at the same time. |
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When you are working on a large project make down the task into smaller pieces and finish your work at one piece at a time. |
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Keep reference book materials i.e. telephone book, important manuals etc. within arms reach. |
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Organising your working tools such as pens, stationery, staplers, cello tapes etc., so that they are ready to use the minute you want them. |
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Maintain a simple but well defined filing system into your place. |
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Handle each piece of paper onle once. |
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Using waiting and travel time to handle small tasks or catch up on reading. |
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When you start a project or task, have back up plans that can be quickly implimented in your original plan doesn,t work. |
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Give and take clear instructions so that subordinates, collegues and clients don't come back to you with questions. |
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Appraise your productivity and determine whether you have completed the goals that you wanted to acheive. |