Smart work : centralise, organise, realise /

Organise your way to renewed focus and calm. Smart Work is the busy professional's guide to getting organised in the digital workplace. Are you drowning in constant emails, phone calls, paperwork, interruptions and meeting actions? This book throws you a lifeline by showing you how to take adva...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crowley, Dermot
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, 2015.
Temas:
Business.
Nonfiction.
Education.
Affaires.
businesses (business enterprises)
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Education.
Business
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • SMART WORK
  • Contents
  • About the author
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I Centralise your actions
  • Chapter 1 Consolidate your work
  • Meetings vs tasks
  • Meeting tools
  • the shift from paper to electronic
  • Task tools
  • stuck in the 20th century
  • Centralise absolutely every action: Centralise all of your actions in one place
  • Consider
  • Capture
  • Commit: Get everything centralised ASAP
  • 1. Consider
  • 2. Capture
  • 3. Commit
  • Types of actions
  • hard to soft: Work out the best way to schedule the action
  • Undated task lists
  • Loosely scheduled tasks
  • Date-specific priorities
  • Blocked-out time
  • Meetings
  • Zoom in, zoom out: Zoom in and out of your schedule to execute and plan
  • Use undated task lists: Capture low-priority actions in lists without committing them to a date
  • Outlook undated tasks
  • OneNote
  • Mind maps
  • Paper notepad
  • Capture mind clutter: Get it out of your head and into a place you can trust
  • Chapter 2 Schedule it forward
  • Reactive zone 1
  • the first minute
  • Reactive zone 2
  • the last minute
  • Decide when and schedule: Allocate the resource of time to your priorities to work more proactively
  • Plan your time using a weekly workflow: Zoom out of your schedule to see your meeting and task workload
  • Use action horizons: Use the horizons of next week and next month to defer less pressing actions
  • Focus on the start: Be aware of the due date, but manage the start date
  • Balance your workload: Create a balance between your meeting and task workloads
  • Don't dilute your task list: If you want your task list to keep you focused, keep it focused
  • Next steps only, please: Schedule only next-step actions in your task list
  • Track it back: Use your forward schedule to remind yourself about work or information due back from other people.
  • Information at your fingertips: Keep relevant information attached to the action in your calendar or task list
  • This seems like hard work
  • Chapter 3 Focus your day
  • Start each day with a daily plan: Get focused for the day ahead
  • Highlight the critical work: Measure both importance and urgency to define how critical your work is
  • Manage the change: Your plan will change
  • be ready to manage the change
  • Update the progress: Keep your task list up to date and stay motivated
  • Key practice: Prioritising
  • Part II Organise your inputs
  • Chapter 4 Reduce the noise
  • Reduce email noise: Minimise the noise coming into your inbox
  • Action emails
  • Information emails
  • Junk mail
  • Turn off the alerts: Turn off email alerts on all devices and check email proactively
  • Check email proactively: Build a proactive routine around checking emails
  • Batch information emails: Batch information emails such as newsletters and non-critical reports to be reviewed later
  • Delete decisively: Don't be afraid to delete
  • Tell them to SSSH: Manage other people's expectations and buy yourself some time
  • Send a timely acknowledgement
  • Set an expectation
  • Schedule an action
  • Hold yourself accountable
  • Reduce the disruption of interruption: Manage interruptions by being 'in the zone'
  • Chapter 5 Keep it simple
  • Simplify your filing system: Consolidate your filing system to speed up your email management
  • Complex filing systems
  • Condensed filing systems
  • Compact filing systems
  • Deciding if folders are needed
  • Learn to search: Brush up on your search skills and save time when filing and finding
  • Search techniques
  • Basic search
  • Refined searching
  • Make important emails easier to find: Reduce the risk of losing critical emails by increasing their findability
  • Use a dedicated folder
  • Rewrite the subject line.
  • Categorise the email
  • Take the pain out of archiving: Keep your mailbox lean and mean
  • File on the run: Set up your mobile devices to allow quick filing on the run
  • Chapter 6 Process to empty
  • Treat your inbox like your letterbox: Understand the one true purpose of your inbox
  • Clear the backlog quickly
  • the Mount Rushmore technique: Don't let your backlog stop you from getting on top of your current emails
  • Schedule email actions: Get actions out of your inbox and into your centralised action management system
  • Be decisive: Make fast decisions when processing your email
  • Process all your inputs: Manage all forms of incoming work
  • Inbox
  • Paper in-tray
  • Voicemail
  • Meeting notepad
  • Key practice: Processing
  • Part III Realise your outcomes
  • Chapter 7 Identify your value
  • Clarify your critical roles: Identify your critical roles and spend 80 per cent of your time working on them
  • Reconnect frequently: Make the BIG picture visible and reconnect with it often
  • Chapter 8 Make time to plan
  • Build planning time into your schedule: Make time for personal planning
  • Monthly planning: Identify ten big priorities for the month ahead
  • The Good, the Bad and the Great: Rate the value of every meeting in your pressured schedule
  • Weekly ROAR planning: Finish each week with a ROAR (Review, Organise, Anticipate and Realign)!
  • Review
  • Organise
  • Anticipate
  • Realign
  • Chapter 9 Fight for importance
  • Make it visible: Get the important stuff out of your head
  • Watch out for the procrastination pixie: Don't put off until tomorrow what you should do today
  • Blocking strategies: Use your calendar for the really important stuff
  • Delegate early and well: Make time for the important by letting go of other work
  • Why delegate?
  • What to delegate?
  • When to delegate?
  • Who to delegate to?
  • How to delegate the work?
  • The delegation matrix
  • Key practice: Planning
  • Next steps
  • The learning phase
  • The set-up phase
  • The practice phase
  • The mastery phase
  • Index
  • Advert
  • EULA.

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