Decision Making And Activity Planning and prioritization

Activity Planning and prioritization

Time is one of the life's great equalizers. Everyone, irrespective of age, qualifications, position, social economic status has the same 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. You cannot add extra hours to the day, but can definitely improve time management skills, so that you can do more inless time without extra fatigue or loss of effectiveness.

The key to good time management is to work smarter, not harder. This applies as much to your method of getting dresses for work, as it does  to your conduct in an important business meeting. one of the ways you could schedule your time, is to block certain periods of time for certain activities, For example, you could set a particular time for making all the phone calls planned, at on shot.

One of the most important skills required in professional life is the ability to plan the activities to do. Typically, there might be a number of tasks to be done during a day. You need to prioritize them in the order of importance and urgency. However, it is not enough to identify and prioritize the top three or four tasks to be completed in a day. you need yo allocate time for these in the same order, this is do first things first. Scheduling helps in identifying time for completion and also ensuring that the important tasks get done. Most organizations appreciate persons demonstrating time management skills.

Decision Making

Every task, be it small or large, trivial or important, may require some decisions to be made, independently or collectively. While taking decisions, care must be taken that you have considered all aspects of the problem, objectively. Decision should not be taken in haste, or under emotional influence. it should be based on facts and data, whenever possible. While taking decisions, you may check for the following:
- The adequacy of data available to take a decision
- The good things that can happen because of a decision
- The negative aspects of talking a decision
- New ways or a better alternative to decision