"I'm calling for five minutes." How to go on vacation not to call the authorities

We like to prepare the summer holidays in advance, even before the holiday request: in winter, we start to watch the summer tours, we ask our friends what We must report and we make a "plan B" God forbid, something will break.)

To go on vacation it takes not only with tickets bought and in a good mood, but also with work accomplished on the job. Otherwise, you will receive endless calls from colleagues and bosses asking "to quickly send documents to the post office, clarify a few points of customers, check the numbers in the report" and other countless other stakeholders five minutes on the job. at the edge of the sea in a hug with a laptop and a phone, darken the holidays

Let's see what barriers prevent us from completing the work:

• Inability to say "no". This applies to the personal and professional demands of colleagues. You take what you should not do and that you are not responsible for. And you have no personal interest. It is simply uncomfortable to refuse or be afraid: "But suddenly, the leader will annoy the eve of the party …"
• Inability to delegate. By the way, this is the misfortune of many leaders. After all, who will make a better and faster task than them. On the whole, the opposite is true: you are in business, you do not have the time to meet the deadlines, and the quality of your work is lame.
• Incorrect prioritization. It's simple: you pay less time for important tasks and you move them. And less important tasks are devoted to a large part of the working day.
• Laziness. The most common reason. I think she does not need explanations.
• Procrastination. "I'll do it in an hour, two hours, a day, even before the holidays for another two weeks – I'll be on time." Is the situation familiar? This is postponed for later and ending with a vacation trip with a laptop.
• Bureau of ritual habits. These are cigarette breaks, extraordinary parties, discussions with colleagues and other usual activities. They take up a lot of time, but they are useless. During the preparation of the party, give coffee for five minutes, if you want everything to be at the hour.
• Social networks. It is a mandatory ritual of modern man. Check the mail once an hour, write a message to a friend, or skip the news feed all the time. This distracts even more than office rituals. Delete all tabs and enter a hard timer, at least during preparation for rest.

How to make you finish everything?

Visualization is one of the tools of work to achieve goals. The holiday dream can also be instantly materialized by visualization. The desire to have faster time to increase, if every day you will feel the level of sensations and emotions that await you.

Visualization is easy to use. Take the Whatman / Flipchart and attach photos of where you go on vacation: photo of the sea or lake, beach, orchards, mountains and other beauties of nature. Paste the photos with the views of the country or cities to visit, the dishes you want to try. Take care of the entertainment and shopping: what memories and gifts you bring with you. It is important that the chart or Whatman is completely filled. The main requirement – your visualization should be in sight, so that you watch it, touch the images. In addition, you can download audio with the sound of the sea, singing birds. Do not do too much! You have created it as an incentive to finish your job quickly and to rest, and not to watch the board for hours, dream and do nothing.

How to do everything?

To finish all cases over time, a desire and a visualization are not enough. You may want as much as you want, but without concrete actions, and sometimes with rigorous self-discipline, nothing will happen.

I suggest a set of simple techniques that will help you finish things easily and on time.

1. The Eisenhower Matrix

A simple and useful technique, especially if you drown yourself in the flow of tasks.

The cases are divided into groups according to urgency and importance:

A – Urgent and important cases [19659003] B – Not an urgent but important issue

C – Urgent case but not important

D – Not urgent and not important

Note all your case studies, according to this scheme.

2. ABC Method

The ABC Analysis allows you to divide the time between all cases

Write all the badignments at once and badign them by importance, indicating by the letters A, B and S.

And – the most important things you alone can accomplish, and no one else. You are responsible for these tasks. So, first of all, settle the "task" before the holidays, do not skimp on the time for them (that is, for example, the monthly report on the number of concluded transactions).

In-important cases that can be badigned to others (subordinates or colleagues) but you can do it yourself, if you have the time. Group B tasks, which require a little time, you can completely master. Two or three tasks that you can divide among subordinates or ask colleagues. You alone need to be sure that the tasks are achievable and understandable for your colleagues (for example, call the supplier and know the delivery date).

These are the least important tasks you should simply teach subordinates if you are a competent manager or colleagues. Usually, these are small, routine businesses that eat a lot of time (for example, by entering numbers or phone numbers into an Excel spreadsheet).

3. Method "Eat the Frog"

A frog is the most unloved task (usually it's monotonous and routine actions that take a lot of time). It is best to perform it first. The rest of the work cases after doing a bad job, will not seem so bad. On the contrary, it is easy and quick to perform.

4. Salami Method

Is it easy to eat one sausage stick at a time? Do not use a knife, but only by biting the meat roughly with your teeth? Theoretically, it is possible, only the consequences may not be the most pleasant. It is more civilized to cut the sausage with a knife on a small piece.

Similarly, you have to handle all the complex and time-consuming tasks: divide them into small pieces and make one each day.

the subject is complete). Their advantage is that you order things according to the moment and level of importance. This helps to avoid chaos and fear of not meeting deadlines.

Nevertheless, strict self-discipline is the most powerful stimulus to complete the cases. Discipline yourself, remove the sinks of time and visualize the next holidays.

The article was prepared by the psychologist, specialist in selection and development of staff Anastasiya Teteruk:

"If you can not handle problems at work or a team, do not know how to effectively organize your work day, write to [email protected] I will certainly share my recommendations both as a psychologist and as a staff specialist. "