Efficiency Strategies for 4:30 P.M.
Do you have a system for wrapping up your work day? These are the steps I follow before I close up office for the day.
- I file any papers that are on my desk. I don’t have to spend time looking for it the next morning.
- I clean my desk. I loathe showing up to work and finding a dirty work surface.
- I empty my in-box. Every thing that I haven’t taken care of gets filed in the proper place.
- I empty my voice mail and make any calls I can take care of in 2–minutes or less. Anything longer goes into the next days work list.
- I empty my email in box and lately I’ve added some very aggressive filters to cut down on nonessentials.
- I empty my courier box. I have a box in which requests for trainings are collected.
- I write my to-done list for the next day.
- I put the next days most important task on top of my closed laptop, so I see it first thing the next morning.
What do you do to clear the decks before you head home to kith and kin?
January 30th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Wow, it sounds as though you have keen organizational skills.
January 30th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
In fact, I don’t have natural organization skills. That’s why I have to use techniques like the 4:30 efficiency strategies!