Okay, so you have a schedule all drawn up for your daily routine but the only trouble is that you keep being distracted by fellow employees asking you questions, making conversation, making comments or completing more tasks to your originally well planned out schedule. All these distractions can dramatically impact on your Time Management and throw your schedule into disarray. What you need is one of Infero’s Effective Time Management Training Courses.
If this is the case in the office, you could try using some headphones to give the people around the picture that you are busy and that you don’t want to be disturbed. To eliminate any background noise present in the office, you could use some music through the headphones which will help drown out the background noise and help keep you focused on task. Also any Instant Messaging Clients active on your computer should be set to Busy so that other people are aware that you are unable to talk at that particular time. Another handy tip to use in an office environment is to make a ‘Do not disturb’ sign to hang by your workspace to alert people to the fact that you do not wanted to be disturbed.
In the case of having extra jobs offered to you, you need give a firm but polite refusal in order for you to complete any tasks you are working on at the moment. A polite yet firm refusal such as ‘I’m sorry but I can’t work on any more projects at the moment’ is much better than a reluctant acceptance for both parties as it means your schedule is unaffected and that the request can be completed by somebody who can give it their full attention.
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