Top 10 Time Wasters – Continued

Here’s numbers 5 and 6 with specific strategies for addressing these issues:

5. Drop-in Visitors

• Remember that you teach what you allow.  Stop teaching people to interrupt you. 
• Remove the “bait” from your workspace (candy dishes, toys and other things that might easily attract visitors). 
• Get a “Do Not Disturb” sign for use when you need time to focus and concentrate.
• Rearrange your workspace furniture to help minimize interruptions.
• Ask chronic interrupters to stop interrupting you.

6.  Poor Delegation

• Investigate the psychological reasons for your reluctance or inability to delegate effectively.
• Clearly articulate the details of all delegated tasks.
• Take the time to teach others to do what you do so you can delegate the task in the future.
• Establish and maintain an appropriate follow-up system for all delegated tasks.
• Find people whose strengths are the opposite of yours and “barter” with them to swap selected tasks.

I’ll post 2 more next week!

Have a positively productive week!

Taken from the GO System training course, written by Chris Crouch.