Improve your Effectiveness on the Job
Edited by Lor777, Charmed, Eng, Jonathan V. Lomabao and 2 others
You will be more effective in your job if you have good planning and presentation skills, exercise good meeting behavior, manage your time and organize your work well, and focus your performance on results.
Planning Skills
Planning is preparing for what lies ahead. If you know that you will assist showing the company's office procedures to the new secretarial staff, you may set a goal note to prepare a procedures manual for that purpose. As an assistant sales manager, you may be required to help project the next year's sales in your area and establish strategies for reaching those goals. Being a good planner helps you set a direction for your job and keep yourself focused.
Presentation Skills
Good presentation skills help you to be convincing about your ideas because they help the listener(s) be engaged with what you are saying. Many people feel nervous at the thought of making a presentation, even to a small group. You can reduce your anxiety about making a presentation and increase your effectiveness by following these guidelines:
- 1Decide on the main point you wish to convey.
- 2Develop convincing data to illustrate your point; articles statistics, etc.
- 3Prepare a brief outline on index cards.
- 4Do your homework.
- 5Spending enough time preparing your presentation will help you be more confident about what you say.
- 6Look Confident.
- 7Dress professionally.
- 8Look alert and well groomed.
- 9Show enthusiasm for what you say.
Proper Meeting Behavior
How you interact at company meetings reflects an image of you to others. Among the actions you can take to help to create a positive image are the following:
- 1It is wise to arrive 10 to 15 minutes before the start of any meeting. This will give you time to become oriented to the room and the meeting agenda, and to avoid having to sit on the perimeter of the room because all the best seats are taken.Arrive on time.
Time Management and Organizational Skills
Improving your ability to manage your time and organize your work will help you become more productive and effective. It will also lead people to recognize you as someone who can assume more job responsibilities. There are great payoffs for being organized and managing your time well. You will reduce your stress levels and receive greater satisfaction from you work. Professionally you will develop the image of a professional who is serious about getting things done and moving on to the next challenge.
- 1Assess your workload and schedule on a weekly, then daily, basis.
- Be sure to identify the most important things to accomplish during the workweek.
- Look at your schedule for any meetings, appointments, or sales calls that might take away from the quality time you plan to spend on important projects.
- To ensure you can get to work on those projects, reserve at least two days during the week to devote large chunks of time for your work.
- Try to set aside 30 minutes a day to organize and complete some of your work in between lunches, meetings, and appointments.
- 2Create files for your projects and important information.
- 3#Keep a daily to-do list and check off tasks as you complete them.Use the computer as much as you can to store information and finish projects.
- 4Know when to say no!
- 5Keep a daily calendar.
- 6Plan on arriving at work on time every day.
- 7Be flexible enough to work through lunch, stay late, or come in for a few hours on Saturday morning to keep on top of your work.
Focus on Results
In every job you are assigned, you can increase your effectiveness by knowing what's important for you to do. Jobs exist because certain functions need to be performed and certain results are expected. For example, imagine that your job as a telemarketer involves selling a cable TV service by telephone. You decide that you want to do better today than you did yesterday. Yesterday you made 25 calls and convinced eight clients to buy the service. You might decide to make 35 calls today, but what's really important is not making more calls but selling more cable subscriptions than you did yesterday. Therefore, a better goal might be to convince 10 clients to buy the service regardless of how many calls it takes. The workplace is becoming more and more structured toward individual workers having yearly objectives, thus creating more accountability for job performance.
There will be many times during your daily job routine when the hectic pace and multitude of tasks that need to get done become overwhelming. By using good planning and presentation skills, exercising proper meeting behavior, managing your time effectively, and keeping focused on results, you can get things done both independently and with others.
Tips Tricks & Warnings
- Having a positive relationship with others on the job will help you grow professionally and create new opportunities for you.
- Learning how to improve your own personal production and effectiveness helps you grow toward greater responsibility and greater professional satisfaction with your career.
- Remember, with every job you can improve your effectiveness.
Questions and Answers
I have many ideas and opportunities, but have not been able to realise most of them
Most time I don't finish one project, before embarking on another.
Having many great ideas and opportunities are qualities of a good employee, but just having these qualities are not enough. To properly utilize these positive traits, you must learn how to deal with them properly in order for you to achieve your goal.
These are some tips that may help you realise your ideas and opportunities:
- 1Most of us have many wonderful ideas and opportunities regarding our job, but the main problem seems to be the inability for us to deal with them simultaneously. Try to focus on one idea at a time.Deal with them one at a time.
- 2Having many wonderful ideas makes us want to deal with them at the same time, or makes us hurry through the current project, to get to the idea. The best way to cope with this attitude is to simply set our mind on finishing on project, before beginning the next. In this way, you are completing your project more effectively and properly managing your ideas one at a time.Set your mind.
- 3Before starting a new project, make a careful and thorough research first on your idea. One reason why many of us fail to complete the project at hand, is because we tend to get bored or we found out that our current idea is not doing exactly as we planned, thus, making us to jump into doing another idea leaving our previous project incomplete. To remedy this attitude, you need to do some research first and try to include not only the advantages of your idea but also its disadvantages.Do research.
- 4If it's your boss, giving you a second project before the first is complete, either talk to your boss about it, or spend more time managing your time - creating a time-line and sticking to it.
Following the above tips will greatly help you managing both your time, and your great ideas, and allow you the opportunity to work more effectively and efficiently on your work.
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