How you spend your time in the workplace is a huge factor on how productive your workplace can be. Time management defines how long it takes you to complete task and organize your priorities. Using time management wisely in the workplace is the most important thing you can do to be more productive, not necessarily seeing how much work you can fit into your day as complete it as fast as you can.
Here are some ways you can enhance time management in your workplace:
Don’t take on additional assignments until your daily tasks are complete!
You have created a to-do list that fits your schedule for the day (and every day after that) taking on additional tasks compromises your time management. If you have extra time when everything is complete then it is ok to take on more assignments.
Review your work and celebrate!
Look at your to-do list from the week. Have you met deadlines that were supposed to be met? Have you completed every task? Did you need to postpone anything? If everything is complete and nothing has been postponed then pat yourself on the back for great time management and celebrate.
Realize perfection doesn’t exist!
Yes, you want your tasks to be perfect- but taking time to redo something five times just doesn’t make sense- especially for a timed schedule. If you spend a an hour extra on one task it just takes time away from another and that isn’t good time management.
Don’t expect to remember everything!
Jot down some notes or program things to remember on your smart phone if you have one. Don’t forget to prioritize and add them to your to-do list at work to cater to your time management plan.
Take action!
You can plan and plan and plan, but nothing is ever going to get finished if you don’t take action. Your to-do list is just going to keep growing if you don’t start working on it. Everything starts and ends with an action- you can’t complete a task if you don’t start it. You only lose precious time and decrease in productivity for your workplace and your time management plan goes out the window.
Limit Meetings!
In any company meetings are important, but only when important topics need to be discussed. Meetings put a dent in time management schedules, especially unplanned meetings. Make your meetings short and straight to the point in the workplace. Less time in meetings means more time completing tasks which leads to increased productivity in the workplace.