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Coaching Exercises (click to select)

How to Manage your Workload
Some Top Tips...

1. Prioritise your tasks & responsibilities
- What's most important to me?
- When does it have to be done by?
- How long will it take me?
- Can anyone else do it?
- Will it matter if I don't do it?

2. Overcome procrastination
Usually you procrastinate when you fear failure, or even success, are too much of a perfectionist or lack self-discipline.

- Put things into your calendar or diary and stick to it!
- Only look at emails a couple of times a day at set times.
This will enable you to focus on other things rather than be distracted by each email as it
arrives. Sticking to this routine for a month will enable it to become a habit.
- Wherever possible operate on a one-touch in-tray basis. See Organise.
- Take some big projects and break them down into small steps with interim deadlines.
- Visualise the end result.
Try to get a clear vision of all the steps necessary to finish the project. When you can
'see' how something can be done, you'll be motivated to do it.

3. Spend time reviewing projects
- Proper planning at the start enables everyone to share the vision, know their part &
responsibilities, understand the critical steps
- Put together a schedule and circulate / agree it with all concerned.
- Review schedules on a regular basis to make sure things are on track.
- Manage costs.
- Build in some worst-case scenarios!

4. Set limits and say 'No'
- Stop rationalising & justifying everything.
- Remember what's more important to you.
 - Remember you can't please everyone!

5. Enlist support
- Clear thorough communication when you delegate or share responsibilities saves time.
- Let people do the task in their own way.
As long as the results meet your expectations and task requirements. If you try and control
how other people do things then you haven't really delegated & aren't saving yourself time.
- Do you need to outsource or get some temporary staff?

6. Maximise your time
        - Ask yourself...is it really necessary?
        - Combine similar tasks.
        - Plan your travel efficiently.
        Maximise your time in one place by booking several meetings when you are there

7. Organise
        - With all incoming tasks, emails, paperwork as much as possible either:
         1) deal with it as you read it (you or pass straight to someone else better placed to respond)
         2) File if need time to act or respond to it BUT make sure you schedule a time in diary to do!
         3) Throw away if don't need to file or no action needed!
          - Create a reading file for journals or internet-based news of interest.
         Set aside time each month to read & catch up with latest technology or thoughts in your
         industry. Then delete or empty file!

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