4 Time Management Tips for Employees

     Nowadays, some companies require their employees to complete a lot of tasks in a short amount of time for the sake of time efficiency. This requires a good time management skill to complete each task before the deadline. A big company generally has a big job responsibility. The bigger company you work for, the bigger job responsibility you handle.

     The number of tasks pilling up can cause problem both for the company and the workers themselves. Here are four tips to make your work hours more effective. Each tip may have different capacity to streamline the time management. 

1. Start questioning and challenging

    One of several ways to make your work hours more effective is to start questioning and challenging when you are given an assignment. Questioning and challenging means you have to ask clearly every detail of the assignment. Thus, there are not many questions arising in the middle of doing the task which can take a lot of time. It also means that you have to be more proactive. 

2. Make a to-do list

    Make a to-do list right now written in the form of bullet points. Group the tasks according to their difficulty starting from the easiest to the most difficult task. Do the tasks with the lowest difficulty which can be completed quickly. A to-do list is like a planning note. With a planning note, you don’t have to think long enough to determine the next task after completing a task.

3. Reward and punishment

     This is a motivation method. We can take advantage of the method to improve our time management skill. Of course, there is nothing wrong with celebrating our accomplishments. It is also necessary to be firm with ourselves in order to completing work target properly because change starts from ourselves not from others

4. Avoid all forms of distractions

     We unconsciously often do unimportant things which waste our work hours. A minor distraction even can reduce your performance. Here are some examples of things that can waste your time:

1. Smartphone

     On the one hand, smartphone makes us easier to do a lot of work. However, on the other hand, smartphone also provides a lot of distractions which make us difficult to concentrate. Notification from your smartphone is a small distraction which makes you difficult to concentrate.

2. A noisy workspace

     Concentration is an important thing at work. The sound of people talking or the sound of a spoon falling can damage your concentration which then reduces your productivities.

3. Health

     Both of nutritional deficiencies and other health problems can make you work slower. These things can make you languid and discouraged from working. You need a good health and stamina to work hard and need adequate nutrition to work all day.