~ DECIDE TO PRORITY OF WORK ~

Now I share a bit my experience in work field. We realize that more obstacles that we face in the work field. There are more reactions, they can stand and survive or they cannot stand and survive even give up because they don't feel comfortable with uncertain condition at work field. When you face overload of work in your office, may you shock and confuse which one is the first time to do. In this case, we should make scale of work priority.

When we make work priority, we should consider both in term urgency, important, ability, knowledge and needs or other factors affecting the work. There are four scale of work priority that we will be done base on urgency and important the work.

1. Priority 1 : There has high urgency and high importance of work, we must finish
   
   this work first and not delay. We select the work base on time between when it was entry and when it must be submitted (deadline). If there has a short time, then it includes in this priority.
2. Priority 2 : There has low urgency and high importance of work, we should review or reschedule the work, then we finish it in productive time until it becomes high priority.
3. Priority 3 : There has high urgency, but low importance of work, we should plan this work first. Usually it comes from other department or other client. We can reject if it disturbs the main work and our productivity.
4. Priority 4 : There has low urgency and low importance of work. We should do in the last priority after three priority before finished. Even we can deny or reject and wait until we have the right time to do.

My experience in Human Resource while I worked at industry, when an employee got an accident, then HR team must do its job at that time to bring an employee go to hospital, even HR do first aid to help that employee. Don't forget call hospital first and after employee enter a hospital, we should prepare what hospital needs, such as employee ID card, a covering letter for hospital, etc. After that, HR and relevant department should prepare replacements employee for no occurs missing productivity. This case includes in priority 1.

Making overtime report, claim and benefit report, incentives report or all about financial that employee receive in salary, this work is high importance, but it has periodically to be urgent. Then, we can reschedule and review this work until it becomes high urgency. This case includes in priority 2.

When other department ask a HR member of team to give list of employee data whose relevant with them. This work has high priority because they ask and need at that time, even they want to get it directly, but it is not important for us. If this work disturbs our productivity and our main work, we can reject or delay it until we finish the main work. This case includes in priority 3.

In the weekend, our partner ask to join for dinner and recreation. This work has low urgency and low importance. If we must do overtime and we have other importance work, so we can reject or wait until the right time. Even we can avoid this work. This case includes in priority 4.

There are some steps to decide work priority :

1. Creating all the list of work at that day. Specify when the work was entry and when the work must be submitted, it needs a short time or long time of deadline.
2. Consider our knowledge about the work, we have skill or not to finish the work, or we must begin to learn it, then it needs a long time to do.
3. Consider our ability to finish the work, we understand or not about the work,  it will relate to error and missing of work affecting our productivity.
4. Consult and discuss with our boss or clients relevant with the work.
5. Give point close to zero if it has low priority and point close to 10 if it has high priority.
6. Then to give good result, we map the priority of the work into the work table, as follows :

We should know our ability and our knowledge about the work, and to make priority is depend on us and the habit on doing the work. And, if we confuse, should consult and discuss with them. If we can do it all properly, we will satisfied for what we have done and our customer will be satisfied about the result.

Hope this article is useful.

By MEYF

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~ MENENTUKAN PRIORITAS PEKERJAAN ~

Sedikit berbagi pengalaman saya dalam dunia kerja. Dalam dunia kerja banyak tantangan yang harus kita hadapi dan kita jalani. Ada yang mampu bertahan dan ada yang menyerah karena tidak merasa nyaman dengan kondisi kerja yang tidak menentu. Saat Anda dihadapi dengan kondisi dimana pekerjaan yang datang kepada Anda melebihi dari biasanya, mungkin Anda kaget atau bingung mana pekerjaan yang dahulu harus dikerjakan. Dalam hal ini, ada baiknya kita menentukan skala prioritas dari pekerjaan tersebut.

Dalam penentuan skala prioritas pekerjaan perlu adanya pertimbangan-pertimbangan baik dari segi urgenitas, kepentingan, kemampuan, wawasan dan kebutuhan atau faktor lain yang mempengruhi pekerjaan tersebut. Terdapat empat skala prioritas pekerjaan yang harus diselesaikan berdasarkan tingkat mendesak (urgent) dan kepentingan (important) dari pekerjaan tersebut, yaitu :

1. Prioritas 1 : pekerjaan yang memiliki tingkat urgent tinggi dan tingkat kepentingan tinggi, maka pekerjaan ini haruslah diselesaikan pertama kali. Seleksi berdasarkan jarak waktu antara kapan tugas masuk dan kapan harus diserahkan, jika jarak waktunya pendek maka pekerjaan tersebut termasuk pada skala prioritas ini. Jangan pernah menunda pekerjaan dan harus lakukan saat ini.
2. Prioritas 2 : pekerjaan yang memiliki tingkat urgent rendah namun tingkat kepentingan tinggi, maka ada baiknya kita mereview atau menjadwalkan kembali agar dapat dilakukan pada waktu yang produktif hingga pekerjaan ini menjadi mendesak (urgent).
3. Prioritas 3 : pekerjaan yang memiliki tingkat urgent tinggi namun tingkat kepentingan rendah, maka pekerjaan ini dapat direncanakan terlebih dahulu. Biasanya datang dari departemen atau pihak lain. Kita berhak menolaknya jika mengganggu produktifitas kerja kita.
4. Prioritas 4 : pekerjaan yang memiliki tingkat urgent rendah dan tingkat kepentingan rendah, maka untuk pekerjaan pada skala ini ada baiknya kita melaksanakan diakhir setelah pekerjaan penting dan urgent lainnya dilaksanakan. Atau bahkan mungkin ada baiknya untuk dihindari dan menunggu hingga waktu yang tepat.

Sebagai contoh pengalaman saya dalam bidang human resources di industri, saat terjadi kecelakaan kerja pada karyawan, maka pada saat itu HR harus melakukan tugasnya untuk mengantarkan karyawan ke rumah sakit dan mengurus surat-surat penting yang dibutuhkan selama perawatan. Dalam hal pekerjaan, HR bersama departemen terkait harus mempersiapkan karyawan pengganti agar tidak terjadi miss produktifitas. Maka kategori ini termasuk pada prioritas1.

Report mengenai lemburan, tunjangan, insentif atau pun kewajiban yang harus dibayar karyawan pada saat penerimaan gaji merupakan hal yang penting namun prioritasnya hanya pada waktu tertentu. Maka pekerjaan ini bisa dijadwalkan kembali hingga mendekati hari H dimana pekerjaan ini menjadi sangat urgent. Maka kategori ini termasuk pada prioritas 2.

Departemen lain meminta Anda sebagai team HR untuk memberikan data karyawan departemen tersebut. Pekerjaan ini memiliki prioritas tinggi karena mereka meminta pada saat itu juga, namun bagi kita tidak begitu penting. Jika hal ini mengganggu produktifitas kerja, maka berhak untuk menolaknya atau menundanya hingga pekerjaan yang harus kita laksanakan saat itu selesai. Maka kategori ini termasuk pada prioritas 3.

Di akhir pekan anggota team mengajak kita untuk jalan-jalan sebagai refreshing. Hal ini termasuk pekerjaan yang tidak penting dan tidak urgent, jika kita diharuskan untuk lembur atau memiliki kepentingan lainnya, maka kita berhak menolak atau menunggu hingga waktu yang tepat. Atau bahkan pekerjaan ini pun bisa dihindari. Maka kategori ini termasuk pada prioritas 4.

Adapun beberapa langkah yang dilakukan sebelum menentukan prioritas pekerjaan adalah :

1. Membuat semua list pekerjaan pada hari itu.
2. Tentukan tanggal datang dan deadline dari pekerjaan tersebut, apakah lama atau tidak.
3. Pertimbangkan mengenai pengetahuan kita mengenai pekerjaan tersebut, apakah mahir atau tidak, ataukah harus belajar dari awal atau hanya melakukan yang sudah terbiasa
4. Pertimbangkan mengenai kemampuan kita dalam menyelesaikan pekerjaan tersebut, apakah sudah memahami atau belum, karena akan berhubungan dengan tingkat error pekerjaan yang kita hasilkan.
5. Konsultasi dan diskusi dengan atasan atau pihak yang terkait pekerjaan tersebut.
6. Beri point mendekati 0 sebagai prioritas rendah dan point mendekati 10 sebagai prioritas tinggi.
7. Selanjutnya agar memberikan hasil yang rapi, kita petakan prioritas kerja tersebut kedalam table kerja, seperti berikut:

Kita puas dengan apa yang kita kerjakan dan pelanggan pun puas dengan hasil yang kita kerjakan.

Semoga bermanfaat..

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~ THE NEGATIVE EFFECT OF MULTITASKING ~

The last article, I shared about multitasking. We discuss that what multitasking is, how multitasking is done and what the effect of multitasking to work, it is will be negative or positive effect. How lucky they are if they are able to do multitasking, then they can reduce working time without reduce their productivity of work. But if they are not able to do multitasking, this effect is negative to work such as wasting time and reduce productivity of work.

The first time, we may though that multitasking reduce our working time, but it is not always correct. We have limited ability and we need high concentration to do activity, then the effect that multitasking doesn't save working time, but it will wasting working time. Can you imagine when you have high concentration make report, you get calling from your client that force you to answer them. You need time until 20 minutes concentration to continue your work before. So, you waste your time about 20 minutes continue and finish your report.

When you are in a meeting with clients, suddenly you get message and you open it, although you interrupt meeting to read email for a minute, you will lose some topic in meeting. Even you ask your partner what meeting talking about. Surely it will disturb your partner concentration while meeting.

In a research by Joshua Rubinstein, Ph.D., David Meyer, Ph.D. and Jefrey Evans, Ph.D,  they said multitasking is obstacle for employees to have good productivity because of wasting time. Although our brain is greater than computer, but we only have limited ability to do work. Computer is able to do more activity and open different application in same time because it has been designed to do like that.

Multitasking is useful for simple or small activity such as watching television while eating, singing while do shower, etc. I have experience that I need high concentration while making salary report of employee, but suddenly my boss asked me to do other report that he thoughT that it is more important than salary report because of urgent. I left my first report and I made my boss's report. While doing that work, suddenly other department asked to give new report about productivity of employee because they would make incentive report for salary. Then, I should stop making two old report. And, can you imagine how can I get back to finish my old report, I need more time to get high concentration to avoid from error. Here is wasting time again and even low productivity if I did error. Only positive thinking that made me survive with this activity. I thought this is challenging for me in work field and I should pass it properly and give good performance for company.

If we face this condition every day in working, it can give negative effect for our productivity and even for our healthy. It can reduce our productivity, wasting time and even we always make the repeated error or mistakes. We will break our healthy and we get depression because of work.

From any source that I read, here is some tips to avoid multitasking:

1. While we are reading and making report, we should far from internet connection or social media that is not related to our work.
2. We shouldn't eat in work table because it can break our mind to get rest, we will remember about our duty and even we will stop for eating and continue to work.
3. Every day, we must make daily list job and give sign which one is high priority and which one is not to finish it.
4. We must focus and do on high priority of work.
5. We should get rested for 15 minutes in the morning or in the evening.
6. We must use tools or application that can help easy to work.

If we are not usual to multitasking, so leave it and focus on some work and avoid for something that can disturb our concentration. We start from high priority of work then continue to the next priority.

Hope this article is useful for us.

By MEYF

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~ DAMPAK NEGATIF MULTITASKING ~

Pada artikel sebelumnya, saya sharing mengenai multitasking. Apakah itu multitasking, bagaimanakah multitasking tersebut dan apakah berdampak negatif atau positif pada kinerja kita jika kita melakukan multitasking. Bagi orang yang mampu melakukannya   tentu hal tersebut sangat menguntungkan, karena mereka mampu menghemat waktunya dalam melakukan aktivitas. Namun jika mereka tidak terbiasa, hal ini sangat merugikan bukan saja dari segi waktu yang terbuang hingga hasil kinerja yang tidak memuaskan.

Pada awalnya mungkin kita berpikir dengan multitasking mampu mempersingkat waktu kerja, namun karena kemampuan kita terbatas dan membutuhkan konsentrasi yang tinggi untuk melakukan aktivitas, sehingga multitasking bukan menghemat waktu malahan buang-buang waktu. Coba bayangkan jika saat membuat laporan dengan penuh konsentrasi, tiba-tiba telpon Anda berdering dan mengharuskan Anda untuk menjawabnya. Untuk melanjutkan pekerjaan sebelumnya dibutuhkan waktu yang cukup lama mungkin hingga 20 menit agar bisa berkonsentrasi kembali. Sehingga terbuanglah waktu Anda hingga 20 menit untuk dapat menyelesaikan laporan tersebut.

Saat Anda sedang mengikuti meeting dengan klien, tiba-tiba Anda menerima email dan Anda membukanya, walau hanya beberapa menit, namun beberapa topik yang dibicarakan terlewatkan begitu saja, bahkan mungkin Anda menanyakan kepada rekan sebelah Anda mengenai topik yang dibicarakan, tentu mengganggu konsentrasi orang lain saat meeting berlangsung.

Dalam penelitian yang dilakukan oleh Joshua Rubinstein, Ph.D., David Meyer, Ph.D. dan Jefrey Evans, Ph.D, bahwa multitasking itu adalah halangan bagi karyawan untuk lebih produktif karena terjadinya pemborosan waktu.

Walaupun otak kita lebih hebat dari komputer, namun kemampuan kita tidak semuanya mampu seperti komputer yang dalam waktu bersamaan mengerjakan tugas yang berbeda. Multitasking hanya berguna untuk hal-hal ringan, misalnya saat menonton televisi sambil makan, atau mandi sambil bernyanyi. Seperti pengalaman saya dimasa lalu saat satu pekerjaan dilakukan dengan konsentrasi, namun tiba-tiba perintah atasan untuk mengerjakan pekerjaan lain yang beliau anggap lebih penting, hingga meninggalkan pekerjaan sebelumnya. Dan bahkan beberapa menit setelahnya, saya diharuskan melakukan pekerjaan baru yang datang dari departemen lain, sehingga mengharuskan saya untuk menghentikan dua pekerjaan sebelumnya.

Tentu jika sering terjadi hal semacam ini akan menimbulkan tekanan bahkan sering merasa jenuh dengan kondisi dan pekerjaan. Hanya pikiran positif yang mampu bertahan dalam keaadaan tersebut yaitu sebuah tantangan dalam pekerjaan yang harus dilewati. Namun tidak akan baik untuk jangka panjang. Mulai dari segi produktifitas kerja yang akan menimbulkan kesalahan yang berulang-ulang hingga segi kesehatan yaitu timbulnya stress akibat pekerjaan.

Ada beberapa tips yang saya ambil dari beberapa sumber yang dapat kita biasakan untuk tidak multitasking, diantaranya :

• Saat membaca atau membuat laporan, hendaklah menjauh dari koneksi internet atau pun media sosial yang tidak berhubungan dengan pekerjaan.
• Jangan makan di meja kerja, karena akan mengingatkan Anda akan pekerjaan yang harus diselesaikan bahkan dapat menghentikan makan siang untuk melanjutkan pekerjaan.
• Buat setiap hari daftar pekerjaan pada hari itu, dan berikan tanda mana yang menjadi prioritas utama dan mana yang berikutnya. 
• Fokus pada pekerjaan yang menjadi prioritas untuk dikerjakan.
• Sempatkan waktu istirahat selama 15 menit baik pagi atau pun siang hari.
• Gunakan alat kerja atau pun aplikasi yang meringankan pekerjaan.

Jika kita tidak terbiasa dengan hal multitasking, maka tinggalkanlah, fokus pada satu pekerjaan dan hindari hal-hal yang mengganggu pekerjaan Anda. Mulailah mengerjakan pekerjaan yang memiliki prioritas yang tinggi baru dilanjutkan dengan prioritas yang berikutnya.

Semoga artikel ini bermanfaat..

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~ THE LESSON FROM ANIMATION MOVIE : "RATATOUILLE" ~

Ratatouille...

Last time, I watched animation movie that gives inspire and motivation. Although I often watch this movie, but I never bored on watching it. This movie was launched in 2007. Its title is Ratatouille. This animation movie is about cooking and Ratatouille is a kind of special food from French.

In this movie tell about story of Remy, rat, it is gift a highly developed sense of taste and, Remy is able to distinguish food which one is good to eat and other not. Remy is able to cook as well. Remy lives with its family on the roof. And, daily Remy always watch idol chef, Gustaeu, when a homeowner watches a cooking shows. Remy has a dream to be a great and famous chef like Gustaeu. One day, when Remy take some food and ingredients there, a homeowner sees him, he tries to catch Remy, but Remy escape then caused leave its family. On the way, Remy tries to take a cook book of Gustaeu, and the end stranded in a large city of France in front of famous restaurant of Gustaeu.

This restaurant was a famous and favourite of people there. Then, one day Anto Ego, an observer food visited  Gustaeu Restaurant. He writes a high negative critical about this restaurant. After Gustaeu died, the reputation's restaurant was a setback.

In this restaurant, Remy starts to develop its skill through Linguini, a garbage boy there, but actually Linguini is a heir of this restaurant that is covered the truth by new manager of restaurant. Friendship between Remy and Linguini gave a positive success, Remy has the chance to develop its skill through Linguini. Remy controls Linguini like a robot through Remy's hair. Because of hard work and learning by doing, Linguini becomes a great chef and make delicious Ratatouille through control of Remy. Anton Ego, an observer food shock and he doesn't believe that Ratatouille is the same with his mom made. More customers come to this restaurant to eat this dish.

In this story, a manager cannot accept that Linguini have a great skill in cooking. One day, when Remy and his colony come to restaurant to take food there, they were caught. And, unfortunately Remy and Linguini live far away. Then government close that restaurant because of the healthy reason. Its is not decent if more rats in a restaurant.

This does not take a long time, friendship between Remy and Linguini make them see again. Anton Ego has great plan to make a new restaurant that will be managed by Linguini and Remy. This icon of new restaurant is rat. There will be built a restaurant and separate between rats and human restaurant.

May we see this movie is like entertainment animation and not in real life, this movie only entertains us with great animation and story. But it has more lesson that we can learn especially from Remy. This is not mean that we act like rat, but we learn from Remy's attitude, view and effort to pursuit dream.  This animation movie teach us about bravery, teamwork and self-confidence.

The bravery of Remy to pursuit dream to be a great chef. Remy is only rat, but it has big ambition to develop its skill. Although Remy has separated left with its parents, although Remy is only a rat of disgusting animal, but Remy is able to prove and develop its skill to pursuit dream. So whatever our condition, wherever we come from, whatever we look like, and whatever our background, but we certainly have unexpected skills that we can develop it. And, the bravery can make our dream come true.

In a team, whatever our condition that we face, bad or good things that we have, bad or good things that we meet, we cannot make a great team that can find a solution without good teamwork and positive mind. The weakness will be covered by strength of team members. So everything will be done perfectly.

The other lesson that we can learn from this movie is self-confidence. Never fear about our condition, performance and attitude or our character that other cannot accept or not like it. But we must be brave and confidence and believe that we have the excellence skills, we are able to do good things for success, and we are able to do what other cannot do.

The important thing is Remy has a dream and clear purpose to be great chef. Whatever obstacle will occur, Remy views it with bravery, confidence and positive. Don't let anyone define our limits because of where we come from. But only limit is our soul. (except Allah says something to happen).

by MEYF

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