09.26.05
Time and Motion
I have just spent a whole day in the office. I don’t remember when that last happened and for once I seem to have achieved some outcomes (it’s all about outcomes you know!)
I was meant to be going to a meeting first thing, but running late after taking my offspring to see our GP (see previous post for details of the booking and appointment saga) I rang in to offer late apologies, only to find that said meeting had been cancelled. Apparently an email had been sent round this morning; very useful. Still I arrived in the office earlier than expected and was able to get straight to it!
One of the things that annoys me so much now I am an office type is that I seem to start more projects and pieces of work than I manage to finish. This could of course be down to my organizational skills, or perhaps the level of interruption which goes on in that place. I often think we should do a time and motion study to see just how many phone calls, emails and letters which slow the progress of an average day. That reminds me that when I was a district nurse we did something along those lines for management, we had to write down everything we did every day for a week. It showed that we all did far more than could be physically fitted into the time available; surprise surprise we heard nothing more!
Anyway today I actually completed some work, and that can’t be bad. Tomorrow I am off to a hotel in London for a day about leadership; looking forward to that as you can get breakfast before hand (need to get that early train) and lunch too. Can’t be bad!
