Managing Work Overload

Are you reading this just to escape from the nightmare that has become your daily routine at work?  Join the Wily Manager guys this week as they talk about how to handle it when you become completely overwhelmed at work.

Monday’s Tip: Determine your top priorities. It is quite possible that there are many things not that important that are eating up your day at work.  You need to figure out what the most important things are, and act on those.

Tuesday’s Tip: Get agreement from your boss on top priorities. Sometimes we do things we think are important that our boss and the organization could care less about.  Make sure you have agreement on your top priorities.

Wednesday’s Tip: Schedule your priorities in first. Once you know what your priorities are, you need to schedule them into your day.  Far too often, the urgent overwhelms the important.

Thursday’s Tip: Delegate and eliminate. You need to be ruthless about determining what tasks you should no longer do, and what tasks you may be able to hand off to someone else.

Friday’s Tip: You may have to give up some things you like doing. The hardest part about changing habits is giving up those things that may not be a priority, but we really like doing.  Be brave – give up you pet projects if they are not top priority.