Most of us during their professional career, finds workload management ineffective. These workload pressures multiply and become increasingly difficult as we progress in the career. This can lead to mistakes being made, tasks are overlooked or forgotten about and a sense of not being in control of our workload. These problems could be cause by many factors but most commonly are the following;
1. Lack of Clarity
2. Stockpiling of tasks, it means lose of track
3. Misunderstanding of overall situation
4. Don’t know how to priorities?
There are different set of approaches in the Project Management world, which allows you to achieve clarity on the overall picture of everything you are expected to be working on, identify the bottlenecks and get a clear view of what needs to be done by you and others. There are few steps which helps you to manage your workload efficiently.
1. Keep a clear record of workload
2. Get Clarity on the overall picture
3. Identify the links between tasks
4. Break them down into manageable chunks
5. Assign the priority
6. Take needful actions to accomplish
7. Track the unfinished tasks or the one require further actions
It gives you the ability to understand the different stages of the task and priorities actions and tasks, meaning you will know how to tackle the task at hand and feel on top of your workload. Goodluck!
Sunday, May 3, 2009
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