Efficiency

The Best Laid Plans may be wrong on the second day of the planned invasion! Not all interruptions are bad. By making the call, she got a new project for your customers - or even a new customer. A brief social interaction with colleagues or clients may not provide immediate results. You can make an important contribution to improved relations, a reward later.

To really check interruptions during your most productive time of day, a meeting with you in 1-2 hours. Let all that you do not want to be disturbed - unless it's an emergency. Even if you have an open door policy, it is permissible to not be available any time is available each day. How you communicate your intentions in advance.

You can also move on to be an empty office, library and conference room, not where you lead your phone and your computer do all you can hear an e-mail or phone rings ding time. Leave your cell phone or BlackBerry in your office. Forward your calls to a message with the caller when you return your calls and forward them to the right person if they need help immediately voicemail.

Be sure to give clear guidance to your back-up person, so they can determine interfere with any situation, not the substance of breaking into your "time. If you regularly use this technique, you will be different conditions for interrupting you during your time on the declared focus. You find that you dig into this a high priority / data to achieve high performance and better results in less time.

And - if you break over someone else to meet your needs, think again. Be time for the other person and to take into account the impact of interruptions on his successful day. If we are all aware of the intended effect on performance - or lack of interruptions, we may be able to interrupt several times, we reduce or interspersed with other others.