Time can not only be organized or saved, but it can also be bought for a fee. This method is called delegating tasks. It is not only about instructing a subordinate, well, about transferring your task to a colleague or spouse, about buying services, etc.
Examples
For example, if the duties assigned to you take an extremely long time with their small importance, then you should think about buying the services of an assistant or secretary. Staff expansion is a global issue that cannot always be solved, but the acquisition of one-time services is even easier. With all this, it is necessary to justify your decision to management.
Another example: if you don’t have time to do laundry at home, you can talk to your husband about laundry services. He will surely internalize and accept such an offer. There is another option – to hire a housekeeper.
Don’t be intimidated by that word. The worldview that this is an impermissible luxury is erroneous. In Indian times, only doctors and generals could afford such chic, and at the moment such services are inexpensive. For $ 100-200 per month, a housekeeper will come to you once a week and do housework – wash, clean, cook, etc. It is not difficult to calculate how much time, and most importantly – how much nerves you will save.
There is a possibility that you are for the family – a wife and mother, and for employees of the department or company – the manager. I’m sure you don’t get to delegating tasks to subordinates all the time to save your time for the boss.
We will not painstakingly consider how and in what quantities to give instructions to subordinates – read about this in the books on management. Now we are talking about delegation in personal time management. When giving orders, be sure to materialize them for yourself, in other words, do not shift a reminder of it to the subordinate along with the task.
It usually happens like this:
The employee must do; he must remind the manager of what he is instructed to do and when it should be done. Reserve the right to control. Mark who was assigned, the nature of the tasks, the deadlines and who is responsible for it. This can be done on a computer or on paper – the method is not important; the main thing is that the situation is under your control.
First, teach not only subordinates to come to your office with a notebook and a pen, well, keep these tools at hand – record reminders about tasks and monitor their implementation. Do not rely on memory – it is unreliable, although almost everyone is convinced of the opposite. The above does not mean that you will make a note and hide this sheet away. Keep it in front of your eyes, for which it is more convenient to keep statistics of orders on the computer, placing the file on the Desktop.
Subordinates will know:
You never forget about anything, and it is better to do all your assignments in fit and perfectly.
By bringing together the ability to say “no”, buying time and delegating tasks. You will get the well-known method of exclusion – you have eliminated the unnecessary, freeing up a lot of personal time. At the moment, your task is to understand which of the remaining is the most important thing in order to devote the maximum time naturally to it.
Try to analyse the deeds of the past day, determining the significance of the work done. Prioritise.
I’m sure you’ll reason something like this: it’s valenno, without it there’s no way, the boss asked for it. Thus, everything will turn out to be fundamental. It’s up to you to decide.
Translated from Latin, value means “he who goes first».
All things can’t be ahead of the curve – something is bound to be in second place, 3rd, etc.:
If everyone goes to the queue without queuing, everyone will still be in line. If you consider all the tasks necessary, the significance itself will disappear – they will become similar. There is a solution to this difficulty. All things may be necessary, but in different ways. For example, significance for you personally, for the family, for the manager, for the client, etc. To determine the degree of significance, you should use the method of multi-criteria.
A household examples. You need to find which school to send your child to. In one there are good teachers, the other is closer to home, the 3rd – to work, in the fourth not so long ago made repairs, the 5th – with a pool, but paid.
The method of multi-criteria is as follows.
- Determine the nuances by which you evaluate your choices.
- Compare the nuances and determine the degree of significance of each of them.
- Evaluate the options for each of the criteria.
- Calculate the weighted estimates and choose the best option.