AgileWorkLand

Have you seen some people who are super fast and efficient at work that they can finish in 5 mins something that would take you ages? Have you ever wondered how they did it? Here are four tips that would help you to be more efficient at work.  First, preview the work that are going to come, and prepare for it. A lot of our routine activities are predictable. We know that we need to prepare a budget at a certain point of the year. We know that we need to do an analysis of the past quarter or past month performance. So why not create a template , or even better, automated template so that next time it will save you a lot of trouble.  Second, concentrate on finishing one thing at a time . By “at a time”, I mean finish one thing after another, instead of switching from one thing to another. The reason is that every time you switch to another piece of work, you need a “transition” time to get into it. Imagine you are writing an email, and you received an email notificat...

Do you often find yourself with an 8-hour day job which only requires 2 hours to finish? What do you do with the downtime - 75% of your work time? You spent it here and there, looking at things on the Internet that you couldn't even tell afterwards? You tried different ways to kill time but still bo? You are not alone. Having a job that couldn't live up to our potential is one of the worst things that can happen for our motivation at work. We would feel so frustrated. We are not committed any more to what we are doing. We don't feel that we are improving or making progress as we stop to be challenged by what we do. Take a look around you. Most of us tend to be over-qualified for our jobs. While quitting or changing our jobs are not an option, what should we do to maximise the use of the 8-hour work time? First and as always, we need to set a target . What do you want to achieve by taking full use of your work time? It can be as general as "I just want to be more ...