I am a construction manager. Currently I am the Executive in charge of Pre-construction with responsibilities to manage our scheduling, virtual design and construction, and pre-construction departments as well as two construction project teams. I deal with a lot of moving parts everyday that can be a challenge. The ability to manage my work load and still finish in 8-10hours per day has taken a long time to master …and sometimes I don’t get there!
This is greatly simplified, but in general I think about three things every morning.
- Am I holding anyone up?
- The first things I tackle are those items others need from me so they can do their jobs
- What is urgent or needed the soonest that I need to do myself?
- Once I make sure my teams can keep moving I look at the items on my list and tackle those that are most urgent.
- What is in the parking lot?
- We all have extracurricular work items that we never seem to get done.
- These items don’t have a specific deadline, but need to be included at some point.
- I manage to fit them into my schedule bit-by-bit and it has proven effective for me.
douglas adams 