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How do you find a solution to your time management and productivity problems if you have no time to stop and find those solutions? That’s what we are exploring this week.
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Script | Episode 298
Hello, and welcome to episode 297 of the Working With Podcast. A podcast to answer all your questions about productivity, time management, self-development and goal planning. My name is Carl Pullein, and I am your host of this show.
Have you ever stopped and given some thought to why you are struggling with managing time and productivity? I mean, asked yourself why you have over a thousand emails in your inbox, a desktop full of files, images and PDFs, and are unable to find anything you need to get your work done.
One of the first steps to becoming better organised, getting in control of your time and completing your work on time is to establish what the problem is. Knowing that will help you to find the solution to getting everything back in control.
Too often, people look for a solution to a problem that has not been fully explored. Or worse, shut down the possibility of a solution because they feel their situation is unique. It isn’t. Millions of people have been in the same position and have found a working solution. It may mean having to make some difficult decisions and perhaps upset a few people who have been exploiting your good nature, but I can promise you there is a solution.
This is what this week’s question is all about. Finding solutions to the issues that are causing you to lose control of your time and feel out of control.
So, let me take this opportunity to hand you over to the Mystery Podcast Voice for this week’s question.
This week’s question comes from Julie. Julie asks, hi Carl, I am struggling to keep my head above water with my work. I was recently promoted to managing a team of eight people, and now I am getting hundreds of emails, need to attend double the number of meetings I used to attend and have to work an extra three or four hours a day just to stay on top. Is there any advice you could give me?
Hi Julie, thank you for your question.
Starting a new position is always challenging. Your core work changes, and that means the routines and processes you had in place before your promotion will need to change.