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Managing work flow
Trainers’ expo, 9 July 2014
“Anything that causes
you to overreact or
underreact controls you
and often does”
David Allen
What---
Bugs/ nags you?
Interests you?
Distracts you?
 Projects at Hand?
Ideas/ Innovations?
Getting Started
Office
Home
Up and about
Transformation of Stuff- 4 stages
of mastering work flow
C- collect
O- organize
R- Review
D- Do
Collect
Important aspects
Collection tools
Physical and mental sweep
100 percent incompletes
High tech devices
Organize
How----
Processing stuff
Actionable vs non actionable
Project list/ project support list
horizontal vs vertical focus
Review
Involves
Weekly checklists
Daily check lists
 Dumping day
Thinking ahead
 Questions
“ clean, clear, current ,complete”
Do
How?
Monotasking vs multi tasking
The Pomodoro Technique
Batching of tasks
The Big Rocks
Interruptions
 Action management
 Going Dark
Some Final Points
 Meetings
 JIT vs JIC Information
 Learn to be difficult when it counts
 Overcome the comfort challenge
 Use of automation
 Planned vs ideal day
“Let our advance worrying
become advance thinking
and planning”
Winston Churchill
My deal for you all----
Thank You- Questions?

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