DO – DUMP OR DELEGATE
The emails keep coming in. Messages keep coming in. The phone never stops ringing.
Actions are required from every meeting and conversation. And you feel completely overwhelmed ?
There is an instinctive desire to understand and work on every issue – BUT the reality is that there are only a given number of productive hours in a work day. Maybe the time has come to adopt a DO – DUMP OR DELEGATE strategy in order to maintain your sanity.
DO – DUMP OR DELEGATE
I once had a boss whose favorite saying was –
“There are 24 hours in day – and then you have the night time to catch up”
Needless to say – he was very good at delegating
Do you find yourself putting issues to one side with the intention of coming back to them at some stage in the future – maybe later in the day when everyone else has gone home and it’s quiet or putting in a few hours at home later in the evening or maybe trying to catch up by working on the weekend? With laptops and the internet its all too easy – the pressure is on to do more extra work from home.
Before you become a workaholic and are completely burned out – Switch to the Do – Dump – Delegate method of managing the flood of emails and messages and other stuff – don’t put it to one side with the intention of coming back to it later – Don’t keep it hanging around or “on hold”
DO – DUMP OR DELEGATE
Not Only – But Also…..
When there is a need to take a deep breath and take a break
- Open List Of Pages – Engineering Nostalgia for pages of Old Engineer Memories from Engineering practice in the 1960’s/70’s/80’s – with a bit of armed forces and medieval trivia thrown in
- Regardless of your current status – always ask the question – Is there a Better Way and
visit the 3R web page for an overview of the 3R philosophy Review – Refresh – Reset - Whenever possible – always follow the KISS Principle
- Challenge yourself and your colleagues with an Engineering Quiz
- Check out Engineering Odd Bits for odd subject matter – including humor and comment
Engineer & Communicate – Engineering Trivia Quiz – Engineering Nostalgia – Engineering Odd Bits