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Author Topic: Feeling Disorganized/Overwhelmed  (Read 2944 times)
gee4
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« on: October 20, 2008, 08:11:22 am »

Do you schedule your daily/weekly tasks eg via the Task feature in Outlook or as a Reminder in your Calendar?

I feel the only way you can manage a large workload such as yours is to plan and prioritise your work.  You probably already do this in some way but it sounds like you are getting interrupted to start another task when you are in the middle of something else.

I used to complete weekly reports and would print off all the paperwork with the statistics and then once complete initial it with the date that I completed the work.  Then I emailed the report and cc'd it to the recipients.

You can really only work on one task at a time in order to give it 100%.

My suggestion is, make a list of when each report/task has to be submitted and set yourself a deadline a few days before that deadline.  Carry out each task without interruptions but keep others informed of progress if necessary.  In doing this, you will be able to ascertain if your workload is too much or if it just required some re-jigging.

We all try and do too much during a 7 or 8 hour period and the more we do, the more work colleague will throw our way.  Saying no I can't get to it now, IS an option, so don't be afraid to speak up.

Don't panic, it's only Monday!
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