Manage Your Time at Work

So its nine o’clock, time to start work but before you can even see the computer there are yellow stickies, pink stickies, scraps of paper with scribbles and numbers and memos. This is when you start thinking to yourself I really should have attended that time management course. These are your to do lists yet where are you supposed to start? You have left work the evening before feeling guilty for not completing your tasks but how are you supposed to get these done with all the interruptions that you are faced with throughout the day. That Time management course definitely may not have produced more time but it definitely would have helped me to manage my time effectively helping me to maintain a balance between my professional and social life.

We are not super human, we can not find the time to do everything. However what we can do is manage our time so that we can prioritise our tasks and activities in a manner of importance and urgency, this can allow us to do the doable. As stated above to do lists are messy and that’s actually ok as they are full of tasks that may get done and if they don’t that’s ok too as long as they are prioritised. Simply do not rewrite your to do list that’s just a waste of your time and poor time management.

Do you often find yourself saying oh yes I will do that mind-numbing, long, tiresome report as soon as.……well, this is a statement that should not have been coined as it prevents you from doing the task that is important, you will have to do it at some point so get stuck into it, you will then have great relief in crossing off your to do list.

In today’s society we are interrupted on average every 6-9 minutes, by what you may ask, oh I don’t know, could it by any chance be by junk e-mails, texts, telephone calls, social networking sites or youtube? After these controllable or uncontrollable interruptions it will take 4-5 minutes to obtain your concentration again. Is it therefore any wonder that we moan about our time management and are left aggravated and feeling as though we have achieved very little through the working day?

Consequently we could all use a little extra time and you can find out how to gain this through effective time management courses which will be valuable to you in your professional work and social life.