Increase productivity: Avoid these behaviors
Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, December 20, 2007
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For a time management process to work effectively, it is important to know which aspects of your personal time management need to be improved. Below are some of the most frequent behaviors that reduce productivity in the workplace; they can be major obstacles to your own time management and are often "time crooks":
- Interruptions from telephone calls
- Interruptions from personal visitors
- Meetings
- Tasks you should have delegated
- Procrastination and indecision
- Acting with incomplete information
- Dealing with employees that display unacceptable behaviors
Editor's note: The above excerpt is from the online course "Time Management & Delegation for Nurse Managers." For more information on this and other courses, visit the eLearning Library at StrategiesForNurseManagers.com!
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