HOW TO AVOID CRISES


To keep your work from getting unnecessarily hectic, do you:

	Anticipate stressful, high-pressure periods and 		
	determine in advance how you can handle them 		
	efficiently?

	Ask employees and colleagues for their ideas on ways to
	smooth out the work flow?

	Free yourself to concentrate on time-and-energy saving
	tasks--such as setting goals and planning--by 		
	delegating more work to your staff?

	Focus on your unit's primary goals, and limit the 	
	energy spent on less important tasks?

	Negotiate realistic deadlines with your boss so that 	
	your staff will be able to complete the work on time?

	Emphasize the value of planned, steady work rather than
	relying on--and rewarding--last-minute "heroics" to get
	the job done?

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