[jsfg_cinti] Article: How to Advance Your Career and Still Have a Personal Life

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Here's some useful info for when you return to work.

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Lance Feldman

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How to Advance Your Career and Still Have a Personal
Life
Sarah E. Needleman

January 23, 2007 (CareerJournal) Logging in long hours
to get ahead? By strategically organizing your
workday, you may be able to get on the fast track
without sacrificing your personal life.

Nearly two in three full-time U.S. employees say their
workload has increased in the past 12 to 24 months,
according to a recent survey from Accenture Ltd., a
global management consultancy. Of those, almost half
say the heavier burden has negatively affected their
personal life, the survey shows.

"You have a finite amount of energy and talent to
provide, and you need to protect it," says Karlin
Sloan, chief executive officer of Karlin Sloan & Co.,
a global leadership development firm in Chicago, and
author of Smarter, Faster, Better: Strategies for
Effective, Enduring and Fulfilled Leadership
(Jossey-Bass, 2006). "The goal is to be able to
sustain a career throughout your life."

Here are five tips for getting the most of your
workday:

Know when you work best. Many professionals are more
productive at certain times of the day than others,
says Dee Soder, founder and managing partner of CEO
Perspective Group, a New York executive coaching firm.
Tackle challenging tasks during those hours and leave
easy ones for when you're less energized, she says.
...
Set deadlines. Jo Bennett, a partner at
executive-search firm Battalia Winston International
in New York, says she gives herself a time limit to
complete assignments, even if they're not due by a
certain date.
...
Control your environment. The average full-time
knowledge worker loses about two hours a day to office
distractions, such as pop-ins from colleagues,
according to a 2005 survey. The survey, from New York
research firm Basex Inc., had more than 1,000
respondents, most in the U.S.
...
Eliminate unessential work. Identify low-value and
inefficient tasks that you can remove from your plate,
says Marcee Harris, a senior associate in advisory
services in San Francisco for Catalyst, a New
York-based nonprofit that researches women's career
issues. "We recommend that employees partner with
their managers to ask the question of what is taking
away from their work effectiveness," she says.
...
Work on the go. Recruiter Erika Weinstein, 47, says
she sends about 10 to 15 emails during her 30-minute
subway ride to and from work. "It's taking time that's
normally nonproductive and making it productive," she
says.

But stick to noncritical issues, such as scheduling
meetings or approving projects, says Weinstein,
president of Stephen-Bradford Search in New York.
Drivers can listen to work-related podcasts or
recorded books and make cell phone calls using a
hands-free device.

Needleman is associate editor at CareerJournal.com.
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