课程: Time Management: Working from Home

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Responding to quick questions

Responding to quick questions

- Excuse me, I've got just a quick question. This dreaded double Q as I call it is one of the biggest killers to productivity when it comes to most anyone's workday. The issue of quick questions becomes magnified when someone is working from home. While you might think that the separation of not being together in a physical office would reduce these kinds of things, I've found the opposite to be true. Largely because team members don't know what their home-based counterparts are doing. And they rarely hesitate to interrupt them at all with a quick question. We need to avoid this situation. Quick questions force you to switch away from whatever you're working on to answer the question and then switch back. Do this enough and pretty soon, your whole day is just putting out small fires but never getting any real work done. We've already talked about establishing some expectations for email and instant messages but there…

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