Keeping up with all job responsibilities can be difficult. Improving organizational skills, becoming more knowledgeable about the job, increasing efficiency, and eliminating wasted time all enhance...

Keeping up with all job responsibilities can be difficult. Improving organizational skills, becoming more knowledgeable about the job, increasing efficiency, and eliminating wasted time all enhance the ability to complete more work in less time. Unfortunately, it may be impossible to complete all of the work to be done because the workload is too heavy for the amount of time in the workday. If this is the case, review your workload with your supervisor. Before discussing the problem, view the situation from the supervisor’s viewpoint and prepare a detailed list of all your duties. Several questions to consider are: (1) Can some job duties be dropped because they are no longer necessary? (2) Can some job assignments be delayed? (3) Can job duties be assigned to another employee? and (4) Can a new employee be hired?