Community Health Center Management Principles for Boards and Senior Managers - Principle 15 - Systematic Time Spending (Organizing)

Community Health Center Management Principles
for Boards and Senior Managers - Principle 15 - Systematic Time Spending (Organizing)

This is a continuing series for effective Community Health Center Governing Boards and Senior Management.

Today we address:

Principle 15 - Systematic Time Spending (Organizing)

· Diagnostic questions:
1. Identify and eliminate the things that need not be done at all. Ask: “What would happen if this were not done at all?”
2. Which of the activities in my time log could be done by someone else just as well, if not better?
3. Delegation: Getting rid of anything that can be done by somebody else; so that I do not have to delegate, but can really do my own work.
4. What amount of other’s time do I waste?

· Pruning time wasters:
1. Lack of system or foresight (the recurrent crisis)
2. Over-staffing
3. Mal-organization
4. Malfunction in information


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