This past week has been pretty busy with the workload and since I signed an NDA I can’t really disclose what it is that I have been working on but this does bring up an opportunity to talk about time management. At We the Collective, the team strives to keep their office hours to be a 9-5 which is unusual for a design agency or studio. They work crazy hard and week four has really started to give me an idea of how hard that really is. Being able to manage multiple tasks, keep people updated on tasks and finish them before they are needing to be completed for review is no easy feat.
In this week alone I am realizing more efficient ways to complete what is on my plate. The ability to do multiple things at once is helpful and I’ve found that if I write all the steps of what I need to do to get the task done initially, I am more likely able to complete things faster. Not that I can really give an example of a project I worked on but let’s give the example of going to a restaurant and writing a review. You took the notes of what you ate and how it was prepared, you went home, wrote it all out and then realized you took no photos. What do you do? Well there are two paths; you either can’t complete the review without visual content OR you go back, order the same things and take photos of them. Takes twice the amount of time (as did one of my tasks) but you know to be more prepared for next time. I’m hoping that was a good analogy for how I have learned from my most recent hurdle. This experience just shows what I’ve been really trying to get at in all of these blog posts, that without exposure, we can’t learn from our mistakes nor our successes.
