Juggling a Busy Workload

Juggling a Busy Workload

Bradley Honnor

• Effective prioritisation skills

• An action plan to encourage self discipline and sustained improvements

• The motivation to make it happen

Content

• Need to learn how to manage conflicting priorities – meet the demanding needs of their role whilst staying calm under pressure?

• Allocated too much time to tasks that aren’t as important

• Feel overwhelmed at times by how much there is to do?

Who doesn't?

“Efficiency is about doing things right…

Effectiveness is about doing the right things.

…There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

Peter Drucker

What’s the problem?

Prioritisation Matrix

High Importance

Low Importance

Low Urgency High Urgency

Prioritisation Matrix

1

13

510

212

1

4

74

9

3

11

8

6

High Importance

Low Importance

Low Urgency High Urgency

• Plan start times

• Divide large projects

• Control paperwork

• Prioritise your tasks

• Delegate

• Plan a reward

• Set a deadline

Just do it!?

Procrastination

Pain and Pleasure Principle

Pain Pleasure

Stages of delegation

• Don’t know objective

• Don’t know they’re failing

• Don’t know how

• Don’t know why

Reasons for repeated failure

Saying ‘No’

“You will never find time for anything… if you

want time, you must make it.”

Charles Buxton

Philanthropist and Philosopher

Time management

Overwhelmed?Feelings

Thoughts Behaviour

• John AdairEssential Time Management

• Mark ForsterGet Everything Done and Still Have Time to Play

• Stephen CoveyFirst Things First

Further learning

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Bradley Honnor

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Thank you and good luck!