In the workplace, how can I not work overtime?

In the workplace, few people can not work overtime at all, but some people take the initiative to work overtime, some people are forced to work overtime, some occasionally work overtime, and some people often work overtime. In my opinion, if you can not work overtime, try not to work overtime, and if you do want to work overtime, then you should work overtime happily. So how can you work less overtime?

001: Make a day plan. What are your job responsibilities?

What are these job responsibilities? What are the repetitive daily tasks? What do you want to achieve each month?

What are the goals to be achieved each week? How should I organize my day-to-day work? According to the above problems, make yearly, monthly, and weekly goals and decompose them into daily plans, promote various tasks in an orderly manner, and ensure that urgent things are done in a timely manner and important things are given priority.

<>002: Improves concentration. Do laborious things during efficient times, do simple things during inefficient times, and focus your personal attention while doing things, avoiding all kinds of distractions, including various real-time communication tools such as WeChat, QQ, etc.

In particular, don't get into the habit of playing with your phone while doing things, it seems to make the most of your time, but the actual attention switching efficiency is very inefficient. If you are forced to interrupt, the current progress is recorded in a timely manner.

003: Think it through before you do it. To do anything, you must think clearly about three points, including why, what, how, including:

Why is this work assigned, what goals are to be achieved, how are things broken down into various things, and then things are listed and moved forward one by one. Only by thinking clearly can we improve the efficiency of execution, and at the same time avoid the need to rework to make mistakes. If you don't understand, discuss and confirm with leaders, seniors, and masters in time.

Hi, I'm Nana, a communicator, a learning facilitator, and a practitioner of personal growth.

In the workplace, overtime is a common thing, sometimes overtime depends on what kind of company, the nature of some companies is often overtime, in the general workplace company, whether to work overtime, whether to work overtime or not can actually be decided by yourself.

First, arrange working hours reasonably, usually when you go to work in the morning, the time period from 9 o'clock to 11 o'clock is more concentrated and energetic, and you can do important work first and do important things first during this time period.

Be able to arrange the weight of work reasonably, do the important things first, and then do the less important work.

In the morning, I can do important work first, and in the afternoon, I can do some less important things. Usually in the afternoon, it is easier to doze off, the mind is not so concentrated, and the work efficiency is not so efficient.

Second, we must first complete the work required by the leader, so as to avoid the leader coming before work, if it is not completed, the leader is in a hurry, and this situation must be overtime.

Third, to do the sales department to complete the information, according to my work experience, the sales department is a department that needs to work overtime, you have to do a good job of the data and information required by the sales department in advance.

Otherwise, when the sales department needs to work overtime, you also have to accompany the overtime, if you do the information required by the department, you can not work overtime.

Fourth, in some special exhibitions, or conferences, we must first put the important work in the first time to complete, if these work is not completed on time, it must be overtime, and it is necessary to work overtime, and it is necessary to work until it must be completed before leaving work.

No matter what kind of work you encounter in the company, you must arrange your working hours reasonably, don't waste time, get by, arrange the weight of the work reasonably, and complete the important work first.

There are some nights that need to work overtime, which can be completely controlled by yourself, except for some temporary special tasks, which need to work overtime, which is beyond your control.

If you know the importance of your daily work, you will be able to avoid overtime in the workplace and get a proper rest without staying up late to work.

The real purpose of working overtime is to do tomorrow's work in advance, not to be busy with today's unfinished work. Understanding this truth, I believe that everyone can have a new definition of overtime.

Many people in the workplace have had the experience of working overtime, but except for some of them, which are mandatory requirements of leadersMany people's overtime work is actually a manifestation of their own inefficiency。For example, when it's time to do work, I chat with my colleagues, and when I write a plan, I am attracted by the message that pops up on the desktop. Before you know it, time has been swallowed up a lot.

So when it was almost time to get off work, I suddenly felt guilty and started to work overtime to make up for my previous mistakes.

Therefore, if you want to not work overtime, how to use time efficiently has become the key to solving the problem, and here are 2 suggestions to improve everyone's efficiency.

1. Busy = blind

Many professionals seem to be busy every day, but the vast majority of them are blindly busy. You can say a lot about what you are busy with every day, but when you ask him what is really useful for his work, most people are speechless. So theirsBusyness has purely become a kind of self-congratulatory "brushing up on the sense of existence".

Therefore, if you want to get rid of blindness, you must grasp the core of your work, understand what you have to do (ad hoc meetings, work plans), what you can not do (small talk of colleagues, meaningless **), and what you can let others do (ask other colleagues for help, or let subordinates deal with trivial matters), so that your time can be saved.

2. Efficiency ≠ effect

First of all, we need to be clear about the workplaceDoing the right thing is more important than doing it rightTherefore, it is particularly important to have a clear career plan and work plan. When you encounter something, ask yourself why, and you will find that a lot of work is not why, because there is no meaning in the slightest.

Only with a goal can you have a specific direction. Not reallyEvery day is like a spinning top, no matter how fast it turns, it is always in the same place

In the workplace, most employees will either actively or passively work overtime, which is a very common phenomenon, but few people reflect on how to avoid overtime as much as possible

1. The first thing you do when you go to work every day is to clear all the tasks of the day and classify them

Why do so many people have to work overtime? The most important point is that they are extremely inefficient, often procrastinating to get this done, but forgetting to do something more important first.

Therefore, if you want to not work overtime, the first point is to strengthen your work efficiency, change the first thing you do at work every day to review, write down all the tasks of today, so that today's work is clear at a glance, avoid missing any task, and classify them appropriately, you can divide them into: important urgent, important not urgent, unimportant not urgent, unimportant urgent four categories.

In this way, after facing today's work with good classification, fully improve their work efficiency, overtime will not exist.

2. Actively communicate with superiors and colleagues on daily matters

Some people have achieved the first point, but still have to work overtime every day, and their problems often lie in the fact that their daily work is just their imagination, and they do not communicate with their bosses and colleagues in a timely manner, and they are completely unaware of the change of tasks.

This tells us that we should not only do a good job of classifying our daily work, but also actively communicate with our superiors and colleagues in a timely manner to understand the progress or changes of our tasks when performing daily tasks.

3. If it is "passive" overtime, you should learn to refuse appropriately

Not only do there exist in the group of good people in life, but also in the workplace, the so-called good people in the workplace are in the case that their work has not been completed, they encounter the requests and requests for help from colleagues, and they don't think about it, and they readily agree in order to save face and strengthen the relationship with their colleagues, but the colleagues get off work on time, but they are forced to work overtime every day.

This is what we call "passive" overtime, if you encounter this situation, you can't blame others, because this is your own choice, but in the face of a colleague's request for help, you should learn to refuse appropriately according to your own reality, and learning to refuse is also a unique job in the workplace.

For many people in the workplace, overtime is commonplace and has long been accustomed to it. Frequent overtime occupies too much of your personal time and affects your personal life balance, so how can you avoid overtime, here are three experiences:

First, the first important thing in the work, to divide the daily work according to the priority, very urgent is very important, very urgent is not important, not urgent is very important, not important is not urgent.

First of all, you have to complete the very important things first, and then the very urgent things, because the general urgent things will not be very important, so that only the unimportant and non-urgent things are left, so you don't have to work overtime, and you can do it the next day.

Second, quitting procrastination causes overtime, a large part of it is because we procrastinate and can't focus on it, so we are inefficient and can't complete the work in time, so how to quit procrastination, here are a few tips:

1. Put your phone where you can't see it when you work.

2. Using the Pomodoro method, you can take a 5-minute break every 25 minutes to continue working.

3. Do things that can be solved within five minutes.

4. Let's do it first, and if you have a beginning, you can continue to do it.

5. You can find others to supervise yourself, tell others what you want to do, and force yourself.

3. Skilled use of workIf you want to improve work efficiency, you must be proficient in mastering and using tools.

For example, proficient in the use of office software, collaborative office software, Youdao cloud notes and other software. If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, and being good at using tools will greatly improve our work efficiency.

If you want to avoid overtime, it comes down to finding ways to improve your work efficiency and achieve a work-life balance.

Overtime is the most annoying thing for everyone in the workplace. No matter who you are, you want to leave work early, but the reality is cruel. If you don't want to work overtime, you can improve it from your own working methods

1.Learn to be lazy

Sometimes, being too industrious is not a good thing. Some people work very hard, but they are blind and busy, busy all day, and the efficiency output is very low. In fact, laziness is the primary productive force.

There is always a pattern in the work, such as writing official documents, each time there are fixed format and sentence requirements, and every time a similar official document is saved, it is very trouble-free to write.

In addition, when doing a job that you have never taken on before, there is no need to explore how others have done it before, so you can save time.

Moreover, you must learn to find someone to help, some work is within the scope of other people's work, so don't take more than yourself, just arrange it for relevant personnel to do. <>

2.Learning tools

If you want to improve work efficiency, you must learn to make good use of the work tools in your hands.

For example, the software we use every day, especially excel, for example, I want to summarize a data, make formulas for the data that needs to be analyzed, and only need to input the data to automatically come out of the results, so that the work efficiency must have improved a lot. <>

3.Learn to organize your work

There are many people who work all day, but their work efficiency is not high, their work is like whack-a-mole, come to a job, do a job, and constantly switch between multiple jobs, resulting in inability to work deeply. When working, it is necessary to have a plan, a large period of time is used to deal with the important work of the day, and the unimportant work is handled in fragmented time or arranged to the next day to ensure that the day's tasks can be completed on the same day. In addition, work of the same nature can be arranged together and processed in a centralized manner.

Whether you are a novice who has just entered the workplace or an old bird who has been working hard in the workplace for many years, whether you are just entering a company or your own employees in the company, any workplace identity is inevitably the test of overtime. It's just that some people will make overtime the norm and then spend it in complaining, while others will make overtime a means to improve themselves, just a transition for a certain period of time.

So, what determines that some people can not work overtime, and some people always work overtime and do not get promoted?

First, you need to be clear about when you have to work overtime.

Generally speaking, when you just take over a project, you will inevitably have to work overtime during special periods such as sprint large-scale events, performance appraisals, and leadership mobilizing employees.

This kind of overtime is to complete the work on time, and the other is to cooperate with the leader and let the other party see your efforts. So, don't be awkward and refuse to work overtime during this period.

Secondly, you need to be clear about the essential reasons for daily overtime.

Usually, overtime is either the amount of work given by the boss is too large and you can't complete it on time, or you have problems with your work efficiency and improper working methods.

If it's the former, you can sort out the work at hand, how much time each job takes up on you, distinguish priorities, and discuss with the leader about doing less or not doing less for those time-consuming and secondary jobs, because you have so much time.

For the latter, you'd better ask your colleagues if there's a better way to get the job done, if you don't get the hang of it, if you have a problem with time management, if you don't have enough concentration at work, and so on, and then prescribe the right medicine.

Overtime is never a big problem, the point is that if you only know how to complain and only think about refusing to work overtime, then it is equivalent to giving up on growth and facing the essence of the problem.