juggling a busy workload
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Slides from the Reed Learning seminar "Juggling a Busy Workload" presented by Bradley Honnor at the office* 2013 exhibition.TRANSCRIPT
Juggling a Busy Workload
Bradley Honnor
• Effective prioritisation skills
• An action plan to encourage self discipline and sustained improvements
• The motivation to make it happen
Content
• Need to learn how to manage conflicting priorities – meet the demanding needs of their role whilst staying calm under pressure?
• Allocated too much time to tasks that aren’t as important
• Feel overwhelmed at times by how much there is to do?
Who doesn't?
“Efficiency is about doing things right…
Effectiveness is about doing the right things.
…There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
Peter Drucker
What’s the problem?
Prioritisation Matrix
High Importance
Low Importance
Low Urgency High Urgency
Prioritisation Matrix
1
13
510
212
1
4
74
9
3
11
8
6
High Importance
Low Importance
Low Urgency High Urgency
• Plan start times
• Divide large projects
• Control paperwork
• Prioritise your tasks
• Delegate
• Plan a reward
• Set a deadline
Just do it!?
Procrastination
Pain and Pleasure Principle
Pain Pleasure
Stages of delegation
• Don’t know objective
• Don’t know they’re failing
• Don’t know how
• Don’t know why
Reasons for repeated failure
Saying ‘No’
“You will never find time for anything… if you
want time, you must make it.”
Charles Buxton
Philanthropist and Philosopher
Time management
Overwhelmed?Feelings
Thoughts Behaviour
• John AdairEssential Time Management
• Mark ForsterGet Everything Done and Still Have Time to Play
• Stephen CoveyFirst Things First
Further learning