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Get More Done!

In today’s global marketing and business, the challenge is always to stay competitive by create and develope more efficient working environment. For more than a decade, technology has been touted as the obvious answer to help increase the productivity. At the same time, I’ve found out that it is strange when I read that Americans are working longer hours and deal with more work-related stress than ever before.

While the digital age has brought us some useful tools like email, high-speed internet, cell phones and PDA’s, they have not necessarily improved our productivity (I know some of top Sales Professionals who rarely use the computer almost in work). In fact, it has been found that as few as 10% of the new technology users are truly productive and move their company’s agenda forward. The rest have created a lot of busy-work that makes them look very industrious.

Non-urgent emails, phone calls, and web surfing for useless information during working hours. These are so much of wasting of time. We also need to remember that a flurry of activity does not necessarily mean productivity and it is often a way to avoid, even to think about doing what is most important to be done.

Technology can be an effective tool in today’s work-culture, but it also can turn to a serious distraction for those who are unable to derive their Time-Management effectively.

Imitate the skills and characteristics of the 10% that are truly productive:

Prioritize - Separating the important from the not-so important tasks is essential. An effective priority management system is the ABC method. A’s are the most important tasks and C’s are the ones that should be delegated or put off until the A’s and B’s are done.

Focus – Give more focus like a laser beam on each task until it is complete will not only help you get more done, but it will also motivate you with a sense of accomplishment to move the list down and moving forward to the next priority.

Think Before You Act - Again, activity does not necessarily mean you're accomplished. Often, one of the greatest means for effective productivity is to sit and think about a project before rushing into it.

Delegate! - Effective management means understand that you probably are unable to do everything. Learn to delegate those non-essential tasks to others. If you run a small business and have no employees, ask family members and friends to help you carry out the responsibilities. As sales professional and career coach, I admired my wife, Rachel, who is able to manage most of the administrative work and web development.

The term Time Management is really deceiving. Time, of course it is unstopable and up to us on how to set the priorities for each task to be done within the time that we have every day. For more information on effective priority management, I recommend an article called First Things First by Stephen Covey and Rebecca R Merrill.