[thelist] Day-to-day workflow related questions

[Chris Williams]

Sounds like a normal day in life to me. Sole person here also, and sometimes
it's hard to get anything done.  I would cut out all phone calls, axe the
meetings, stop reading 600 emails per day, and see if your productivity
improves.  Remember, you can always be replaced.

Go for a walk, schedule your meetings during certain times of the day only,
ie. am or pm.  Get an answering machine and make it clear to your clients
you will be available to them between x and y times. Set a part of the week
aside for just 'you'  ie, ice cream afternoon/bike ride/nap on Wednesday
afternoon.  You dont have to say where you are going...it's your own
meeting.

Just remember to take care of your mental state. Set your boundaries and
people will respect them.  Have non, and you will be mincemeat.

Chris - but a different chris -

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[mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Chris George
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:52 PM
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: [thelist] Day-to-day workflow related questions


Good afternoon all,

I was wondering about day-to-day workflow.  I am now the only Web Designer
here... I've been struggling over the past couple of weeks in getting some
project deadlines accurately predicted.  When there was a few of us, there
was some delegation and some independent project initiation.  The work
hasn't slowed down (in fact, it's prolly increased), but I find myself
getting bogged down with tasks that interrupt projects.  I've tried to
augment how much of my time I allocate to projects (like 80% rather than
100%, and so on), but that doesn't work for all days.

Some actions that take up time:

E-mail correspondence
CRM
Phone calls (clients, business partners)
Archiving of projects
Documentation (internal, not billable)
Meetings
Tendering quotes (quote creation)

Can anyone shed some light/encouragement on this?  It's not a life-or-death
thing, and I'm given lots of leeway to get all this sorted out, but I like
to have some sort of 'formula' I can go on... Rather than slightly vague
'today I might be this busy, but tomorrow I'm that busy'.

Thanks,

Chris.


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