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We all have the same amount of time in a week, but it's how you approach it that makes the different. Streamlining your tasks and focusing on productivity will help you to get more done in less time.
Here are some top tips from the Experts :
- Tackle your least desirable tasks first – get them out of the way so that they don't weigh on you while you're doing the more pleasant tasks.
- Empower your Employees – when they feel like they're all equally important parts of the team, company morale and productivity go up. Don't micro-manage – let them get on with the jobs you hired them to do.
- Quit social media – it really is a time sink, and you don't need to know what your friend had for lunch.
- Immediately tackle simple tasks as they come in – apply the five-minute rule and if it's going to take less time than that, get it done.
- Find a remote workspace – getting out of the office for one day a week boosts creativity and prevents burnout. Make it a practice for your whole team.
- Disconnect from technology during crunch time – when you really need to knuckle down and concentrate, shut down email, the internet, and turn your phone to airplane mode. And don't forget to shut your office door.
- Take a break – it seems counter-intuitive, but taking time to rest, eat and drink something can make you more productive, because your brain is refreshed.
- Schedule your email time – you really don't have to reply to every email as it comes in. Take charge of your technology; don't let it be in charge of you.
- Take a Sabbath – at least one day a week should be completely work-free. You owe it to yourself to have some downtime, some time to relax and recharge.
- Prepare on Sunday nights – check your appointments for the week ahead, read through any notes, ensure everything is prepared so that you head into Monday in a calm frame of mind.
By Franz Wild and Paul Burkhardt
Johannesburg - South Africa has a problem in its engine room. Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd supplies about 95 percent of the country's power and hasn't got a permanent chief executive officer, a chairman or enough money to keep the lights on.
Eskom said chairman Zola Tsotsi will leave the company on Tuesday. Less than three weeks earlier, he suspended four executives, including CEO Tshediso Matona, and started an audit of the utility. The squabbles come amid delays to new power plants that's forced Africa's most-industrialised economy to ration electricity. Four months of intermittent rolling blackouts have curbed economic output, brought gridlock to city roads and could scare investors already roiled by a weak currency and labour disruptions, according to money managers including Abri du Plessis, who helps oversee the equivalent of about $330 million at Gryphon Asset Management. "It's one of our worst nightmares in South Africa from an economic perspective," Du Plessis said by phone from Cape Town. "It can kill the economy. It's one of the biggest challenges we've had (since the end of white minority rule in 1994)," he said.
South Africa, which through Eskom has the capacity to generate 10 times more power than the continent's largest economy Nigeria, depends on electricity to run mines that provide its biggest source of foreign exchange. Power is needed to winch workers kilometres underground to dig and to fire smelters that produce chrome and aluminum.
The yield on the company's dollar bonds due in January 2021 jumped to a record 6.76 percent on March 13 and S&P cut Eskom's rating to junk 10 days later.
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