At Inspire Change we work with healthcare professionals in both the service delivery and pharmaceutical sectors.

Most people tell us that they are busier than ever before, expected to do the work that perhaps two people (at least) would have done in the past, and that new technology, whilst immensely helpful, has only added to the stress and immediacy of the situation.

 

How can we help you?

 

Our very popular Time Management Workshop offers a range of solutions and excellent tips to help you manage your valuable time more effectively. Delegates who have attended the workshop found the following tips most useful in helping them succeed:

  1. Stop going to meetings that have
    - No Objectives
    - No agenda
    - No published finished time
    - All three
  2. Do more progress tasks and less maintenance tasks. A maintenance task, like filling the car with petrol, is essential, but leaves us no better off than we were before. A progress task on the other hand, such as reading an article in the Lancet, which helps a patient, leaves us in a better position than we were before. The solution? Do more progress tasks and delegate maintenance tasks.
  3. Handle each piece of paper (and email) only once.
  4. Turn off that distracting reminder that you have new email. In Outlook go to Tools>Options>Preferences>Email options>Advanced email options>uncheck all boxes in section "When new items arrive in my inbox"
  5. Book time with yourself. If you do a timelog, and track the things that happen to you each day and the time they take, you will probably find that there are a number of interruptions that you get each day, but you have allowed no time for. Do a timelog, find out how much time this takes, and then plan it in to your daily plan.
 

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