Getting Organized at Work - 24 Lessons to set Goals, Establish Priorities and Manage your Time

Getting Organized at Work - 24 Lessons to set Goals, Establish Priorities and Manage your Time
Author: KENNETH ZEIGLER
Publisher: McGraw-Hill

The goal of this book is to provide tips, tools, ideas,
and strategies that you can apply and see immediate,
measurable improvement, both at work and at
home. This book will help you use whatever system
you’re currently using more effectively.
Many time management courses talk about the
ability to change time and reality. That seems
impractical. Instead of acting like the salmon and
swimming against the current, go with the flow—
but add structure and discipline.
This book is intended to get you to analyze your
use of time and answer this question: Why are you
doing what you’re doing when you’re doing it?
Follow these three steps:
1. Keep track of your time (work and personal) for
a week. It may surprise you to find out how
much time tasks and activities take.
2. Then, analyze your findings. Identify any activities
that are unnecessary and eliminate them.
3. Find or create times that you could block off for
important tasks or activities that have a high payoff.
Sometimes these tasks and activities get
delayed because of things that are relatively less
important or even unnecessary.
Once you keep track of your time for a week,
you should see patterns in activities, tasks, interruptions,
and unplanned events. Once you see those
patterns, use the strategies discussed in this book to
handle them more effectively.
The key is action. Pick two or three ideas or
strategies at a time and work on them until they
become a habit. Then pick two or three more and
work on them until they become a habit. At the end
of every week, ask yourself what you could do better
next week. In addition, realize that there are two
aspects to saving time:
■ Improving your time management skills
■ Training others so their time management skills
don’t interfere with yours.
“This book is for anyone who would like to
become more efficient, get more done in less time,
and have balance in life.”