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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Time Management?
I am constantly inundated with emails and new projects. It's just extremely difficult to keep up and follow up and do my job the best I can. Before I'm done with any project, there's another one that comes across my desk as an even higher priority than the last. I am doing my best, but it's just so difficult to keep up with everything. My job is in website support and requires me to manage a large number of clients and it's just a lot to handle. Does anyone have any good books or blogs about time management that can help with the mountain of stuff that keeps flooding in?
Re: Time Management?
-- Thoughts become things, choose the good ones! --
No book or website but I have some advice.
I'm a PM who has to get many things up and running at one time. In our peak season I have about 35 accounts (which is like 35 separate projects) to manage. What I do is dedicate time on my calendar for each and tackle one thing at a time (multi-tasking within a project). I also rely heavily on checklists/project plans to track milestone tasks.
I find that checking email and VM too frequently is very distracting. If I'm working on one thing and see an email asking for something else, I used to stop everything and change gears. That often left me with half-unfinished tasks.
Also, I sometimes ask my supervisor for assistance in prioritizing. Sometimes from the inside it's hard to tell what is more important to tackle first.
Always take deep breaths often, the work will eventually get done!
I think Tell Your Time: How to Manage Your Schedule So You Can Live Free could be useful.
That is a huge issue I have and partially my company's culture. Someone will email me, then be at my desk to ask me if I saw their email and if I can have it done by the end of the day.
I'll have to try reading the books that you've suggested. Thanks!