Agenda management

Setzen Sie immer zuerst Ihre eigene Sauerstoffmaske auf (Persönliche Effektivität)

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Machen Sie Ihre Verantwortlichkeiten zu Ihrer Priorität

Für viele Führungskräfte gleicht ihr Tag im Büro dem Trinken aus einem Feuerwehrschlauch. Sie müssen nicht nur an einer grossen Anzahl von Besprechungen teilnehmen (oft direkt hintereinander), sie werden auch von einem kontinuierlichen Strom von Ad-hoc-Fragen ihrer Mitarbeiter, Kollegen, Kunden und Linienvorgesetzten getroffen, die ihre Aufmerksamkeit und ihr Handeln erfordern.

Vor ein paar Jahren begann ich, mir wirklich Sorgen um meine persönliche Effektivität zu machen. Trotz der unverschämten Anzahl an Stunden, die ich bei der Arbeit verbrachte, fand ich es zunehmend schwierig, meine Aufgaben zu erledigen und meine Projekte abzuschliessen. Um dies anzugehen, entschied ich mich, meine Arbeitslast zu analysieren, um herauszufinden, was ich tun könnte, um dies zu ändern.

Für wen arbeiten Sie?

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Start your day with this simple habit and exponentially increase your personal effectiveness!

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Make your responsibilities your priority

For many business leaders, their day in the office resembles drinking from a fire hose. Not only do they need to attend a large number of meetings (often back to back), they are also hit with a continuous stream of ad-hoc questions from their staff, peers, customers, and line managers which require their attention and action.

A couple of years ago I started to get really worried about my personal effectiveness. Despite the outrageous number of hours I spent at work, I found it increasingly difficult to complete my tasks and finish my projects.

In order to address this, I decided to analyze my workload to find out what I could do to change this.

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The Overloaded Organization: A 3-step Approach for Leaders to set Strategic Priorities and Manage Limited Resources (Focusing means saying no)

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Most executives I know are extremely busy. It seems they always have more things to do than they have actually time for. This is probably the reason why articles, books, websites and software packages claiming to offer personal productivity solutions are more popular than ever.

Time Management Tools have a limited effect…

No matter how different these solutions are, they all have one thing in common: they force choices. Whether it is the Eisenhower Matrix, Frank Covey’s Time Matrix or Dave Allen’s ‘Getting Things Done’ philosophy, they all force choices between things that need to be done and things that could be done.

Many people try to implement some or all of these tools and techniques in order to try to balance their time with the items on their to-do list. However, most of them remain structurally overloaded. They continue to have more ‘need to do’ actions on their to-do list than they have time for.

…because most often it is an organizational issue

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