7 Tips to Streamline Your Workday!

Have you ever heard the saying “WORK SMARTER NOT HARDER”? In today’s world, this saying became a must and a key for great achievements. As you progress in your career, your responsibilities increase, meetings become more recurrent, and duties become more diversified. How could you handle all the workload without falling into the stress circle, how could you manage your day in an efficient way, questions that we will try to answer by providing you with the best “TIPS” to streamline your workday.

1- MAKE LISTS YOUR BEST FRIEND

Note down all tasks you need to accomplish, arrange them in order of priority, and you will see how smoothly you will handle them.

2- LIMIT THE INTERRUPTIONS TO THE MINIMUM

If you would allow the people around you to interrupt you round the clock, you will not be able to finish your work. Train people around you not to interrupt you for chit chat, coffee breaks or tasks that can wait. Let them know that you check your email a couple of times a day and that they can send their requests and you will attend to them when you have time for that; in the time you have scheduled for that, unless of course there is an emergency or a situation in which an immediate decision should be taken.

3- DELEGATE

Delegation is not laziness; delegate tasks to your team, and rather than delegating single tasks, try delegating a whole set of decisions. This will save you a lot of time and effort.

4- ENTRUST YOUR TEAM WITH ASSIGNED TASKS

When you assign a task to an employee, you should believe in his/her ability to do it. So, the best way to handle this would be to train the employee, explain the task, trust and then remove yourself from processes where you don't belong.

5- MANAGE YOUR E-MAILS PROPERLY

Open your email, quickly answer the emails that you can answer, forward those that need to be forwarded with quick and brief guidelines, if need be, flag the important emails and add them to your priority list. Check your mail two or three times a day, at times you allocated for that specific purpose. Don’t forget to arrange your mails in folders to facilitate tracking them.

6- DROP ONE PERSONAL COMMITMENT

Think of a personal commitment that you no longer enjoy and drop it. Perhaps you are used to play football every Friday afternoon with your colleagues, but you are recently feeling this became a chore rather than being a treat, so drop it and benefit from the time in other tasks that you feel they are more meaningful.

7- SCHEDULE SOME REFLECTION TIME

Go out for a walk, close your door and reflect for few minutes, and relax. This would give you an energy boost and revitalize your whole system.

Taking these tips into consideration will not only enhance your productivity, but will also save you a lot of stress and wasted time.

 

 

The Business Lobby team.