Time-saving methods

• Maintain a simple filing system. It is useful to review the files at regular intervals. Those, which are no longer needed, should be thrown away.
• Let your committee meetings and conferences be held near lunchtime or dinnertime. Majority of the participants will be keen to finish the meetings in scheduled time.
• Screen telephone calls in order that you answer only the essential ones. Your secretary or assistant can take messages for the rest. You can answer them later.
• Keep your desk clear by removing away the materials, which you are not currently using. By doing so you will avoid distraction and the tendency of doing too many things at the same time.
• Be fully aware of your key hours of the day. Use them effectively together with the lunch-time and the short period finishing the work in the evening.