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.
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