How do you deal with information overload and communication fatigue?

Definitely prioritize your task, I’ve made outlook a close friend of mine. Any deadlines, tasks reminders are all placed in my calendar. Make sure you dedicate at least 1 hour of your day to focus on your own tasks/projects. At the end of the day, you are responsible for your workload, and your day-to-day.

After organising your tasks, it is important to delegate some of them if necessary. However, you should supervise or support colleagues dealing with tasks that you've delegate. Furthermore, it is important to plan your task according to your mood and strengths. For instance, I plan writing/designing project earlier in the morning, as I have my brain fresh ?? and not distracted by external events.

Information overload in the workplace is a term used to describe the extensive amount of irrelevant information flowing among employees. It’s hard to avoid information overload in today’s workplace. Most businesses, from startups to large organizations are dealing with information overload. Moreover, this trend is continuously growing both in employees’ private and professional lives. There is some misleading about the causes of information in the workplace. In essence, the term “overload” refers to “too much of something”. By “information overload”, you usually mean the overwhelming data employees are dealing with in their daily jobs. Indeed, information overload is also caused by irrelevant information shared with employees.

Parce que tout ne peut être urgent, il me parait dès lors important prioriser des taches . Se faisant, on peut identifier les actions qui peuvent etre déléguées aux membres de son équipe. En le systématisant pour le suivi de projets, le planning va aussi alimenter l'agenda de la semaine, tant pour soi que pour son équipe. Enfin, parce que nous ne sommes pas à l'abri de nouveaux PA, avoir un bloc note/ notes. Je privilégie quant à moi un cahier dans lequel je prends des notes , liste les "TO DO associés à des couleurs/symboles suivant leur ordre d'importance. Ces actions passent en vert quand elles sont soldées . Il est toujours ouvert,infos bien visibles pour ne oublier oen + des rappels sur mon agenda electronique.

Well first and foremost you need to have and develop a clear mind, and in order to have these qualities you must think of your work as a house or a room that has and currently being stuffed up with a lot of items. if you keep load in the stuff very soon there will be no space, so start by taking out everything from the room or house and slowly put inside the room or house one thing at a time in an orderly fashion. same way lay down all your the thing you need to complete a task and take it one at a time

I fully agree with this. I have found learning colleges preferred method of contact really helps to establish a more effective and productive workflow. I myself prefer face to face interactions but have several coworkers that favor emails. By learning and adhering to this, it exhibits a mutual respect for each other thus creating a symbiotic work environment.

Interesting point. I think it is helpful to schedule your meetings and important activities on your Outlook agenda and let your colleagues access to them. Hence, they will not plan an action related to you at the same time if needed. Furthermore, you can indicate that you are busy on your business WhatsApp or other communication tools. You can also write on a paper that you are in a meeting and stick it on your door ??to avoid colleagues knocking or opening the door. What else? ?? ...

Setting boundaries and expectations is a must in order to maintain a manageable workload. Often we find ourselves with conflicting priorities due to short notice requests that are time sensitive and high priority along with our regular day to day priorities. In my experience, I find that requesting clear and concise direction as to exactly what is required as well as expected timelines for completion enables me to allocate the necessary time, reschedule items or meetings that can be deferred, and complete my deliverables.

L'organisation de son agenda s'étend jusqu'aux limites que nous devons nous imposer pour veiller à maintenir un équilibre pro/perso. Au niveau pro, par ex: - basculer en mode silence pour se concentrer durant les moments que vous savez être les plus productifs pour vous même - consacrer un moment pour les réunions ou encore une journée pour les actions RP - installer une routine (durée/rythme) / typologie activité (..) ???? s'organiser en fonction de vos activités/priorités/productivité ???? s'imposer une discipline en réponse aux ?: quel moment/ combien de temps/ ou..? Vous dédierez ainsi chaque moment de la journée à une activité précise/routine et informerez les collègues pour inspirer en + d'éviter d'être dérangé.

Je suis entièrement d’accord avec cette méthode , se fixer des objectifs SMART en suivant son évaluation afin d’évaluer les efforts et se réorganiser. Par exemple faire un calendrier de contenu qui correspond et notre charge de travail, faire des petites pauses à mis parcours pour évaluer et adapter ses moyens pour améliorer sa performance. Avec la répétition on va développer des automatismes dans l’exécution de ces plans et optimiser sa stratégie.

Je rajoute la nécessité d'organiser sa boite mail afin de retrouver plus facilement les mails prioritaires. L'expérience aussi m'a enseigné que les mails urgents doivent être enregistrés afin de pouvoir les retrouver facilement , particulièrement en cas d'audits. Aussi, après avoir enregistré les documents/pièces jointes, il me parait utile penser à les supprimer avant de les classer pour ne pas saturer les mails. Enfin, ce que je fais systématiquement est de garder les échanges dans une seule boucle. Ceci peut ne pas être évident mais j'invite mes collaborateurs à faire de même, ce qui rend plus facile en terme d'historique/ tra?abilité des échanges.. suivi des informations.

this works too, but then again try to use the old ways of memory, you see the reason why as humans we have gone to such levels of needing machines to organize our lives clearly shows how out of touch we are with the reality, i mean we have the most advance technology and that is our brain, sometimes we can use it, develop a mindset where we must not always need tools but rather think and remember.

Most definitely i agree with this, we have to understand that we spend so much times operating these machines and at work than we do with our families and friends, we seem always so busy. we barely make time for ourselves and quality family life. our brain clearly send messages to us to slow down but we seem to have found ways to go even further. but its important to take breaks

i feel like sometimes its important to have a reflection on yourself, get to really know your self, ask yourself why do i do what i do, what is the purpose? stay away from a lot of digital platforms and read more, i feel that a lot of reading helps a lot, as it is stated reading is fundamental, fun to the mental

Ma petite expérience m'a enseignée que nous ne devons jamais nous précipiter, avancer la tête baissée. faire une pause; prendre du recul pour s'écouter , s'auto-analyser me parait utile. En plus de pouvoir s'appuyer sur son 6eme sens, il ya bien entendu les outils qui peuvent vous aider à passer en revue vos performances, visualiser vos lacunes.. les comprendre.. Enfin, un aspect que nous avons parfois tendance à ignorer, les feedback qui peuvent aussi contribuer à vous améliorer ..

Write it down : Yes, Information overload can be very tasking at times and ultimately result in poor time management and procrastination leading to a vicious cycle where one is busy gathering information and knowledge but not implementing or retaining anything. One of the ways is to write it down or type it down followed by doing the needful first steps to get started. For example, if there is a meeting scheduled, a presentation to be taken and some emails to be replied to. Write these tasks, allot some time of day when they can be done, and delegate it or do it by the end of the day. Do the ones first which are easier and take less time so that you have a good score on your "Completed Task List". Carry forward the pending task.