SayPro Learning From Your Activity Log

Once you’ve logged your time for a few days, analyze your Activity Log. You may be alarmed to see how much time you spend doing low value jobs! You may also see that you are energetic in some parts of the day, and flat in other parts. A lot of this can depend on how you are, the rest breaks you take, when and what you eat, and the work that you’re doing.

Once you’ve analyzed your Activity Log, you should be able to boost your productivity by applying one of the following actions to various activities:

1.Eliminate or delegate  jobs that aren’t part of your role, or that don’t help you meet your objectives. These may include tasks that someone else in the organization should be doing (possibly at a lower pay rate) or personal activities such as sending non-work e-mails or surfing the Internet.

2.Schedule your most challenging tasks for the times of day when your energy levels are highest. That way, your work will be of better quality, and it should take you less time to do. (Our article, Is This a Morning Task? , has more on how to discover your peak time of day.)

3.Minimize the number of times you switch between types of task. For example, could you check and reply to e-mails at only a few times of the day, or process all of your invoices at the same time each week?

4.Reduce the amount of time you spend on legitimate personal activities such as making drinks. (Take turns in your team to do this – it saves time and strengthens team spirit!)