Manage the Time Professionally
Time management is something rather important when there are a lot of things to do and not enough time to do all of them in proper time. Some might get lost during the hours spend at job and they might seem without professionalism in the eyes of their mates or their boss.
There are a few things to consider when managing your working time: first of all start planning in detail all the steps of your work, no matter the size of the job or the time required to do it. Without specific well defined goals you can not know what to do, without a schedule you can not manage your time, can not know when to do. If you think you need a piece of paper and a pencil to plan everything you do use them, but a computer is better: you can use it as a time calculator. Also, beside planning them, record for some time your daily activities and how much time you spend on each of them. You can learn from each how to manage your time in the future and how to avoid losing time for not important things.
The second most important thing is about the priorities: find your what are the most important activities for each day and do them first. Everything else stands behind them on the scale of importance and you can manage them later. Remember that one day's important things may not be a priority in the next few days. Some may remain the same, but everything else is changing and you should always check your activities daily.
One of the time management base rule says: don't postpone things for later or the next days, you may not have the time to do them or they will become past tense. The measure of one's professionalism is to do the right thing at the right time.
Delegate other people to do jobs in order to manage your time better. That's not lack of professionalism, that's only acknowledgment that you can not do it all. To manage things means to share responsibilities with the rest of the team.
When you are busy try to minimize interruptions, including some of the meetings you have to attend. Be sure that the meetings start on time and use voice mail to receive messages that you can not handle right then.
Organize your office and clean from your desk everything you do not need for the designated jobs. You'll manage the objects on the desk better without losing time searching between stuff.
