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Time Management for
BMC Administrators
Craig Gordon, MD MSSteven C. Borkan, MD
Department of MedicineBoston Medical Center
May 19, 2015
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Why Us?
“Fortunately for authors of articles, as with doctors in general, we are not rigidly forced to practice what we preach!”
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Why Us?
“I therefore make no claim to have emulated all of these pointers although many are being learned the hard way or
from others…”
CAJ McLauchlan, Time Management, 1997
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Why Manage Time?
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You Need Time Management (TM) if > 1 of the Following are True
• “Busy” is the answer to “So, how are you doing?”
• In addition to career, your current life includes:– Family– Friends– Hobbies
• Administrative responsibilities
• Meetings are your most common daily activity
• Inbox too full to send (or receive) emails
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Poor TM Skills: Negative Impact
• Productivity• Career success• Promotion• Recognition in/out of BMC• Job satisfaction• Stress• Personal life
Workstress
Home stress
Poor TMskills
Promotes Burnout !
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That Remarkable Someone…
• Visualize someone whose career success you admire…– CEO?
– Senior Administrator?
– Your Boss?
• How are they so successful?– Devote more time to work?
– Greater talent?
– More infrastructure?
– Magic?
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Tomorrow’s Ultimate TM Device
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Although Several Explanations are Convenient…
Effective individuals uniformly optimize TM skills…
…independent of work load
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My Single Greatest Misconception…
TM Requires No Timeand…
Even Less Planning
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My Second Misconception…
Effective TM is a Mendelian Trait
that cannot be learned…
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TM Skill Building is Lifelong
Relapses expected!
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Time Management Seminar Goals
1. Set short and long-term goals
2. Establish priorities among competing responsibilities
3. Plan and organize activities
4. Identify & minimize “time wasters”
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2. Set Your Priorities Among Competing Responsibilities
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2. Establish Priorities Among Competing Responsibilities
• Acknowledge Endless Requests and Expectations
– Identify these?
• Goal awareness promotes realistic decision-making
• Everyone firmly believes their request essential
• Plan personal time
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Covey’s Time Management Matrix Technique (TMMT)*
Important Less Important
Urgent I III
Less urgent II IV*Adapted to reflect difficulty labeling any tasks as non-urgent or non-important
Covey S, The 7 Habits of Effective People, 1990
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Exercise #2– Place Your Activities Into TMMT
Important Less Important
Urgent I III
Less urgent II IV
Covey S, The 7 Habits of Effective People, 1990
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Organizing Exercise #2
Event Order
1. Organize my goals in TMMT (3 min)
2. Review with small group (n=3 x 3 min)
3. Report group findings (5 min)
- Create “Master” TMMT
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Exercise 2 – follow up
• Which quadrant(s) contain activities promoting my short- or long-term goals?– Am I devoting enough time to key activities?
• Are other quadrant activities impeding my goal-directed activities?
• Does my Supervisor validate important goals?
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3. Plan and Organize Activities
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3. Plan and Organize Activities
• Finding time for activities that promote short- and long-term goals?
• How much time is required?
• Identify un-avoidable commitments!– Meetings, etc.
• When am I most effective?– Time of day, day of the week
• Where am I most effective?
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Exercise 3 – What Size Time Block is Required?• Take activities entered into TMMT quadrants
and insert into column 3 of the table
– from all 4 quadrants
• Consider optimal length of time for activity
• Examples provided…
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Exercise 4 – Find Missing Time to Advance Career
• Fill in your fixed responsibilities into blank weekly, monthly calendar
• Quadrant II activities cannot be done here
• Identify weekly (or monthly) time periods to schedule quadrant II projects
• Ideally during most efficient time periods
• Commit “block out time” for these projects
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4. Minimize “Time Wasters”
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“Favorite” Top 10 Time Wasters
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Infamous “Time Wasters”
• Phone calls, texts and pages
• Physical interruption – “I was just stopping by…”
• Disorganization
• Procrastination
• Repetitive activities
• Waiting for meetings/conferences to begin
• Commuting
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Email• Limit check and/or reply
– How many times have you checked email this morning?
• Disable auto-alert beeps, flashes, vibrations
• Handle messages only once*– Immediately discard unimportant email
(Automatically for some messages/senders)
– File important but non-urgent messages for later review
– Immediately respond to time-sensitive messages only
• Reinforces rationale for infrequently checking email
*Use same approach for “snail” mail
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Physical Interruption – AKA Dreaded Knock on My Door…
• Force folks to knock– Close door when concentration required– Barriers make a difference
• Open door when collaboration beneficial
• Doors Talk: Consider message being sent
• Respect colleagues’ closed door – and they may respect yours
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Acknowledge Disorganization
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Avoid Procrastination
• Identify and address reasons for procrastination
– Beyond today’s scope
– Is professional assistance required?
• Complete small aliquots of work– celebrate, no matter how small
“Don’t let perfect get in the way of good!”
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Standardize Repetitive Activities
• Copy/paste frequently used phrases– Use quick-text functions– Can do this for email and microsoft word
• Identify repetitive tasks & automate
• Up front time cost affords long-lasting benefits
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Meeting & Conference Wait Time
• Carry work appropriate for short wait times
– Email via smart phone– Paperwork– Update calendar
• OK to interact with others!– Conscious choice
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Capture Commute Time
Public Transport
• Write • Paperwork• Read professional
books/articles• Reflect• Breathe/Relax
Driving
• Plan the day• Professional books on
tape• Learn foreign language• Reflect on goals• Relax, enjoy yourself
and wait until you’re here
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TM Summary1. Set short and long-term goals in TMMT
2. Establish priorities for competing responsibilities
3. Plan and Organize activities
4. Minimize “Time Wasters”
5. Identify (1 or 2) areas of TM inefficiency and strive to improve
6. After initial success, tackle new challenges
7. Celebrate victories!
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Thanks To You All!
Special appreciation to Robina Bhasim, Ed.M.
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Time Management for
BMC Administrators
Craig Gordon, MD MSSteven C. Borkan, MD
Department of MedicineBoston Medical Center
Revised 5/16/2015
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1. Set Short and Long-Term Goals
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How to Set Short and Long-Term Goals
• Successful professionals frequently re-set goals
• Short term often yield long-range goals– Short-term goals = intermediary steps to larger ones
• Honest reality testing = are goals achievable?
• Key Annual Review Queries– Do I actually want to do this?– Are my goals still realistic?– Am I on track?– Are goals consistent across time?
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Imagine a Long Term Goal…
I want to run a Marathon…
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Imagine Preparing…
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Short-Term Goals Build Longer Ones
• My Long-term goal: “I will run 26.2 miles”
• “Already ran a 5K race a few years ago…”
• But how will I run a full marathon?
Academic medicine career goals = Marathon
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Marathon vs. Academic Promotion
Marathon• Try running 5K
• If successful, increase distance
• Decline invitation for distracting triathlon training
Promotion• Finish manuscript
• If published, then work on grant… or develop lecture based on same work
• Decline invitation for more committee time
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Exercise #1 – Setting Goals• Identify >2 long-term career goals
– Research?– Education?– Clinical?– Administrative?
• Identify > 4 short-term goals– Research?– Education?– Clinical?– Administrative?
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Organizing Exercise #1
Event Order
1. Select my goals (3 min)
2. Review goals with small group (n=3 x 3 min)
3. Report group findings (5 min)
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Key Queries for Setting Goals
- What do I really want to do?
- Is passion involved?
- Are goals realistic?
- Am I on schedule?
- Does short-term goal success promote long-term success?
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Absence of Medical Literature on Time Management (TM) is Shocking
• Search terms “time management” + “physician”, + “academic physician” + “burnout” + “career development”
• Yields ~ 5600 titles/abstracts
• Only 15 studies suggested TM techniques (disciplines below):
– Family Medicine
– Radiology
– Emergency Medicine
– Psychiatry