Think not only about your own work but the whole team
It's a common situation that a task includes several steps to be accomplished. These steps may be assigned to different employees, and each of them has to wait till his colleague finishes his or her stage. If at least one of team members procrastinates with the accomplishment of his or her part of task, it will be the delay and stress for the whole team. To avoid such situations each employee should realize the importance of timely task accomplishment. If everybody does the task in good time, the whole team will get required successful results and avoid tress and disappointment.
"Accomplish task in good time" To Do List
- When you have a task in your To Do List, pay attention if the result that you will get after accomplishing it, is final or somebody else has to continue it
- If your task is only the part of a big task, estimate the time that your colleague needs to accomplish his or her stage of this task
- Estimate the time you need for your part of task and start doing it so that the whole task will be finished by its finish date
- Use software to track task resources and finish date and estimate the time you and your colleagues have to accomplish each part of task
Action plan
- Start your task management software
- Open the task you are assigned to, select Resources tab
- If you are not the only person who is assigned to this task, estimate the time you and other employees need to accomplish the task in time
- Set your own finish date in accordance with your estimation
- Start doing the task so that you will be able to accomplish it in time
See also:
Analyze your mistakes in order that you and your colleagues will avoid them in the future
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