Planning is to find an effective way to achieve the goal. If you have a plan in your mind, it needs to be written on paper and visualized.

Memos can help you have a clear direction and devote yourself to the implementation.

Simplified project management table

Disassemble molecular projects and set a deadline.

Don't break down work and time points too carefully. Time particles generally go to the next two levels of the planning cycle, that is, the annual plan is decomposed into months and the quarterly plan is decomposed into weeks.

The disassembly of the project should be as leak-free and repetitive as possible.

If the project needs the cooperation of others, the granularity of splitting can be related to people, and the responsibility lies with people, and it is one person.

calendar watch

Keep a detailed record of the time you spend on different things. For example, a person who has an employee relationship thinks that he spends one-third of his time on employees, but after recording for a week, he finds that he only spends one-fifth of his time.

Important things should be arranged first. Including short-term needs, which have a direct impact on the work. Long-term investment can form a huge dividend (although it has no effect in the short term).

Arrange some stones, which are the birthday of customers for sales, the anniversary of employees' entry for managers and so on.

A good plan is not to fill your schedule, but to bring space and buffer. The teacher's experience is: set aside 20% buffer. For example, if you can try your best to complete ten projects a week, then arrange eight projects; If the project can be completed in ten days, it will be 12 days.

2. Action: Turn time into output

Turn the task into action.

Arrange, design the entry system, coordinate the meeting time and other tasks. Actions include: call the customer before going to work, send an email to the personnel department immediately, and run for 20 minutes after 8 o'clock.

Turn around, do, save and throw.

Transfer: transfer to others and authorize others to complete actions or tasks for you. When the task comes, ask yourself: am I the most suitable person?

You can arrange subordinates to participate in unimportant forums, recommend suitable participants, and ask your boss for help to solve problems beyond your responsibilities.

Do: Give priority to the important things.

However, if an action takes only two or three minutes to complete, it is recommended to do it immediately, and don't drag it to occupy your brain memory. For example, add friends, write down some important information immediately, and send a summary email immediately after the meeting.

Save: put things that can't be finished immediately, especially those that need a lot of time, on the to-do list.

Throw: throw away things that can't be turned over, that can't be done immediately, and that don't need to be saved.

For example, irrelevant indicators, deleting an irrelevant email, pushing off an irrelevant communication and so on.

Don't let go of your intention when you are worried that you can't do it well. You have to face it anyway. Why don't you find a positive reason to convince yourself to do it? For example, negotiation is not as good as training.

Don't be embarrassed and tangled by yourself, communicate with your boss and colleagues more. Their suggestions and encouragement may bring motivation.

3. Agile working method: let the plan catch up with the change.

Don't waste time on hard work.

There is no perfectionism. It seems hard for an 80-point thing to score 100, but it's actually a waste of time.

Don't expand the scope. For example, constantly making concessions to increase the workload that was not within the scope of work. For example, customers let PPT change, let them do market research and so on.

Avoid rework. Communication direction at the beginning of work. Of course, it is also possible that the other person's mind has changed.

Agile working method

Minimum deliverable: come up with the most elementary scheme in the early stage, and plan the delivery node, first tight and then loose. For example, there is a month's preparation time, and the plan is delivered twice in the first week, and then once a week.

Continuous iteration: every delivery is better. Iterate the important things, and iterate the urgent things first.

4. Manage collaborators' time

In order to cooperate, when planning, we should pull others in and synchronize them in real time, such as holding a ten-minute executive meeting and synchronizing the progress with a big whiteboard or project management software.

Try to communicate face to face, send less emails and communicate less on WeChat.

Manage your boss's time well: Dare to manage your own and your boss's time, for example, suggest making suggestions directly with your boss to minimize last-minute unexpected arrangements.

Take the initiative to fix the time for one-on-one communication with the boss, put it in his calendar, and report the progress of projects and tasks regularly by using the project management table.

If the development is relatively fast, it is recommended to do it once a month or even once every two weeks. Communication time does not need to be too long, 15 minutes to half an hour is enough. Give priority to communication when communication is hungry, and provide risk warning for things that may miss the time.

Academic authorization

People's growth needs concrete things as a carrier. Subordinates grow not because they can complete a certain task, but because they have completed a certain task.

If subordinates often ask for advice, it is necessary to distinguish whether you or he is the ultimate person in charge of the matter. If so, tell him firmly.

5. How to get along with busyness

Avoid "involution", that is, staying in a simple self-repeating state for a long time.

Form a "self-driven" busyness, find a goal, and set the goal as a preparation for your future resume.

Invest enough in growth and set aside 200 hours for exercise and self-improvement every year. Before you dare to invest in your studies, invest in those distressing money.

If you want to change careers, complete the closed loop in a small opportunity. For example, if an operation changes into a market, you can pay attention to what small opportunities there are in the market and finish it after doing it.

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