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Digg it UP - Resurgence of the Time Sheet: Why You Should Write Down Your Workday Activities
You've found a job that seems perfect for you, you send off your CV and keep fingers crossed you get short listed. You wait, and after a week or so you get the letter, but it's the regret to inform you letter, so what's gone wrong?It may be nothing to do with you! Sometimes it could be nothing to do with you. It may be outside of your control. You may not get short listed because the job is already filled but the company policy is such tha
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I work for an email marketing software and services firm. I am currently wearing my third hat within this firm. We have been under a ‘massive spring cleaning’ for about six months. We have new staff, new websites and new tasks. I work in the Marketing/Send Service departments where I have specific tasks and responsibilities but often I take on various new tasks. I began to wonder if my productivity was affected by the quantity and variety of tasks I was working on within a single workday. This uncertainty, lead to my request of implementing the use of time sheets to my boss. In past careers, I had experienced the use of time sheets as well as time clocks and I was quick to remember how a sense of efficiency as well as commitment went with this practice.
I printed off a weekly calendar with time slots. Each time I switched between my tasks I documented it. Often I was multitasking – deleting spam and updating paper work at same time. I was amazed how my little squares for each hour block could not hold my description of tasks being completed. Often lunches were consumed while updating a mailing list or proofreading new copy for our new website. In my job, I am expected to stay on top of market trends and ideas – but in my Inbox I have a lonely folder of 180 unread newsletters and articles. Why? Our company found the answers in ou
Long hair, short hairs, medium length hair you can find hair styles different type and length just by looking all around you. However one always dreams of having the perfect hair and being the envy of one and all. Everyone is not blessed with naturally beautiful hairs and they have to take special efforts to make their hair look better and beautiful. Hair extensions are one such procedure that can be used to change your hairstyle and in turn transform your whole
I printed off a weekly calendar with time slots. Each time I switched between my tasks I documented it. Often I was multitasking – deleting spam and updating paper work at same time. I was amazed how my little squares for each hour block could not hold my description of tasks being completed. Often lunches were consumed while updating a mailing list or proofreading new copy for our new website. In my job, I am expected to stay on top of market trends and ideas – but in my Inbox I have a lonely folder of 180 unread newsletters and articles. Why? Our company found the answers in ou
There really are three different levels of marketing significance when it comes to your online business.There are three different levels of strategy that result in three different sets of results.1) Advertising – This role is primarily designed to elicit short-term results on a specific campaign or site performance goal.2) Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – This role is designed for long-term growth by getting search engines to recognize your
I printed off a weekly calendar with time slots. Each time I switched between my tasks I documented it. Often I was multitasking – deleting spam and updating paper work at same time. I was amazed how my little squares for each hour block could not hold my description of tasks being completed. Often lunches were consumed while updating a mailing list or proofreading new copy for our new website. In my job, I am expected to stay on top of market trends and ideas – but in my Inbox I have a lonely folder of 180 unread newsletters and articles. Why? Our company found the answers in ou
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I printed off a weekly calendar with time slots. Each time I switched between my tasks I documented it. Often I was multitasking – deleting spam and updating paper work at same time. I was amazed how my little squares for each hour block could not hold my description of tasks being completed. Often lunches were consumed while updating a mailing list or proofreading new copy for our new website. In my job, I am expected to stay on top of market trends and ideas – but in my Inbox I have a lonely folder of 180 unread newsletters and articles. Why? Our company found the answers in ou
I submit to you that Brand Name Identity in the Oil Business is just a important today as it was when Mobil Oil and McDonalds were building their brands. Perhaps in the future it may even be more so. I have often seen others using our business name and sought either injunction or stern warning. As a matter of fact I am preparing a lawsuit against the Federal Trade Commission for using one of his Brand Names and Federal Trademark in their Key Words and Meta Tags o
After tracking our actions for three weeks within our company, we were beginning to see how unacknowledged work time, with simple documentation of the five minutes here and ten minutes there (in an eight-hour work day you only have 48 instances to have 10 mins) can add up and was affecting productivity as well as our bottom line. Below are the results we found from keeping time sheets.
1) We work too much overtime.
2) Committed staff took on various tasks to get the job done but an individuals’ main job was not always the largest percentage of their daily activity. The sub-tasks assigned consumed more than 40% of workday time on average.
3) Customer oriented activities are heavy time consumers in a workday. Good companies survive on their personal contact and relationships with customers but we were not accounting for the time it took to conduct basic courtesy emails and phone calls.
4) Sometimes when an issue occurs within the workplace it requires the abilities of other staff, which then was taking away from their current assigned tasks.
5) Holidays and days off for a staff member lead to responsibilities being spread amongst other staff. A common occurrence though is to put in overtime before time
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