The Time Management Procedures I Have Developed - 1751 Words

Two time management procedures I have developed in my internship are keeping a weekly agenda and using a monthly calendar to keep track of larger tasks. Each Linbeck employee is asked to keep up with a PPC (promised percent complete) agenda. At the end of the week, you are expected to enter the meetings and tasks into a standard form. As you complete the tasks throughout the following week, you check off the line items. At the close of business on Friday, you are asked to grade your PPC. Any tasks that were not completed are marked as such, and you are required to explain why the task was not finished as promised. This practice gets me to work on only promising tasks that can be managed in the course of a week. In order to accommodate†¦show more content†¦Utilizing a white board in your office promotes a community atmosphere that allows for productive conversation. The main problem I have encountered is planning for the future. In the business world, it is impossible to tell what problems will come up. On any given day your priorities can change from that you have planned. It is important to recognize the highest priorities and to tackle those items first so that you can get to the items of lower priority before they become critical. I get to work each morning at 6:30. The first thing I do is check my PPC, email, and outstanding RFIs (requests for information) and submittals. Shortly afterwards I go to a daily engineer huddle where there is a discussion of each engineer’s planned tasks for the day. If there is time after the meeting, I like to walk the jobsite in order to get a feel for the work of all the disciplines onsite. Next, I get to work on the promised tasks for the day. Throughout the day, I am in and out of the jobsite office and visiting the work in the field to keep up with progress and make note of any issues. The three types of meetings I am a part of are OAC (owner, architect, contractor), preconstruction, and BIM (Building Information Modeling) coordination meetings. There is an OAC meeting on the first and third Tuesday of every month. Our architect flies in from California on the morning of the meeting, and spends