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November 3, 2004
Being Efficient On The Job
Interview
with Julie Morgenstern, author of the book, Making
Work Work
Mike
Carruthers:
Want to be that indispensable employee? Well here are some
very good ideas.
Julie
Morgenstern:
The
people who are the most valued are the ones who work closest to the revenue line.
Efficiency
expert Julie Morgenstern, author of the book, Making
Work Work… And
what I mean by that is the things that they do directly make the company money
or directly save the company money. And you could be in any position in the company
and think in terms of when you evaluate your to-do list which of these are one
step to the revenue line and always start with those tasks. And it'll shoot you
right up to the top ten percent of most valued employees in your company. No question
about it, across every industry and every job title. If
you're big on multi-tasking at work Julie says, " Stop that". Multi-tasking
is this concept that we all believed that was the best way to be efficient in
the last decade. And it is since been proven to actually impair thinking and there
are studies that show that it takes four times longer to process each thing you're
working on when you're multi-tasking instead of focusing on one task at a time.
That means actually if you stopped multi-tasking and started to really focus and
complete one task before moving onto the next you'd probably finish your work
day an hour or two earlier and get just as much done. Tomorrow
some great ways to get more done in less time. I'm Mike Carruthers and that's
Something You Should Know.
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