Workplace Tips: How Can We Work Twice As Fast?

At the end of every busy working day, Sloti Nor (Kelly Sortino) always finds it hard to recall what has happened on this day.

She is the head of Crystal Springs Uplands School high school in Hillsborough, California.

Her job often requires her to work 12 hours a day, including weekends and evenings.

She enjoyed the job very much, but worried that she had not completed all the tasks.

Sloti Nor said she felt that she spent most of her time fighting fire and had no time to engage in more strategic and forward-looking work to make greater changes in schools.

She decided to attend a workshop on streamlining work processes and reducing time wastage at Stanford University (Stanford University).

There she learned how to plan her time more effectively and how to minimize distractions.

She also asked herself to complete her daily tasks in an orderly manner, avoid procrastination, and regularly clean up e-mail and office areas.

These changes have made significant progress in her time management.

Sloti Nor has a better understanding of his daily work and has been able to undertake long-term projects.

She will also work overtime on weekends, but only when necessary.

Improving efficiency is not easy.

With the advent of globalization, increasing competition pressure and rapid technological innovation, it is hard for employees to cope with the increasing workload and maintain a healthy balance between work and life.

Fortunately, experts say that a small adjustment of employees' perceptions of work can have a significant impact on their work efficiency.

Learn how to prioritize your work and let yourself work throughout the day without interruption.

A 2009 study in Stanford University found that the efficiency of multiple tasks at the same time was lower than the efficiency of performing single tasks alone, and many people who claimed that they could do many things at the same time were very sad to filter out unrelated information, thus giving them a much more discount in performance.

Arrange email and text messages at a specific time, instead of studying immediately after receiving email.

You can set up in the e-mail box and mark the information of the boss and other sender as important mail.

Calmly returning information can reshape colleagues' expectations.

Malkovich, California's Corte Madera consultant and author of A Factory of One, said that many people are accustomed to looking forward to replying immediately after sending emails and text messages. This is not practical and is achieved in half the effort. "(Madera)

He said, if you don't reply, you will receive more e-mail or phone call from your colleague in three minutes, ask if you have received the previous mail, then you will have to deal with two or three crazy e-mail or voice messages from the same person.

If you deal with dozens of people who have unreasonable demands on your time, you will have no time to do anything else.

Every workplace has the most popular form of communication, but this is not always the case.

The highest way.

Be willing to let go of those obstacles.

A tool for understanding each other.

If you can't express yourself clearly in an e-mail, consider switching to telephone, text messaging or face-to-face conversation.

Yves Morieux, a senior partner at Boston Consulting Group, said, "try to understand what your colleagues are doing and their motives for doing things, because this may be the root cause of many office conflicts, which make people's lives more complicated." (Consulting Morieux)

Morio is also the author of the six simple rule: how to manage complexity and not to make things more complicated (Six Simple Rules: How to Manage Complexity without Getting Complicated).

Try to understand the boss's decision.

This is particularly important.

Most subordinates will follow the same lines and view their superiors on the mainstream of their colleagues. But those views are often incorrect.

A better understanding of the boss's thinking will help you sell your boss the process adjustment suggestions that are good for the Department and the whole company.

Work with your boss to prioritize important tasks and eliminate idle tasks.

Employees may think that changing job functions is risky, but showing initiative can impress your boss.

Before you start a new project, clarify your instructions and get the attention of your superiors and colleagues.

Ron Ashkenas, a senior partner at Schaffer Consulting, based in Standford, Connecticut, says many employees start to do projects without fully understanding the boss's expectations, because they do not want to be critical of the boss's instructions, Consulting.

He said, when the project is finished, the boss will say, "I don't mean to let you do that."

Both sides were frustrated.

Ashkenas said, let colleagues become a support force, breaking the futile mode of creating complex culture.

You can work with colleagues to simplify workflow.