Good time-management trumps multi-tasking.
- by David Maida
- Source: NZ Herald – Workplace
- Mad juggle a waste of time [5:30am Sat 17 Dec 2011]
If you are a multi-tasker and pride yourself on working on several things at once, you might be surprised to discover that you’re not getting as much done as you think.
“It’s not clever to have lots of applications open and lots of things going on,” says Robyn Pearce, one of the world’s leading time-management experts. “There is vast research to show that if you try to do a whole lot of things concurrently, you take longer than if you’re doing things consecutively.”
Pearce says that having good time-management practices in place is the best way to survive in today’s highly technological workplace. And the more we try to do at once, the less we will achieve. Pearce was a real estate agent who never had enough time and couldn’t distinguish between urgent and important tasks. “I just let everybody demand my time and I was very bad at prioritising.” ….
