hey guys Serg here and today we're gonna do a video about how you can prioritize
your workload hey guys Serg here back with another video wanted to talk to you
guys about how you can best prioritize your workload and clinical research now
this may be one of the more obvious videos that we've done but I still feel
like people need help prioritizing their workload and clinical research for a
couple of reasons one because there's a lot of stuff coming at you when you
first get in the field you're probably gonna be in a more entry-level role when
you're first starting out so you're gonna not understand the terms you're
gonna you know not be used to organizing meetings setting up agendas doing
meeting minutes you know handling all these trackers handling all these
different responsibilities as an entry-level employee so it's gonna take
some time to before you really get proficient at your job
you know it's funny my line manager told me it's gonna take me a year before I
get even good at my job not even let alone like excellent and I didn't
believe her at first I was like yeah right like imma be good at two weeks or
something you know and that surely was not the case she was pretty much dead on
it's gonna take about a year and you'll notice a significant improvement I
noticed I was much better from even like you mean you really can't compare day
one because you're still getting used to the company but even like month three or
four to where I was at month twelve huge improvement and I think obviously you
notice you'll notice the most improvement earlier on and then after
like year two year three or four your improvement will probably stagnate a
little bit until you get to like you know a much different role or role with
different responsibilities but obviously you're gonna have that adjustment time
and the adjustment period for anything new that you do so without further adue
and four tips for prioritizing your workload there are a few ways to go
about this I'm gonna give you three of the tips that I follow what I'm trying
to understand how I can best priority my workload and the first one I follow
is timing so when tasks are assigned to you
matters so typically what I try and do is when whichever one has the first due
date or whenever the whichever was first assigned to you as the one I try and
knock out first if there's if they're staggered if they're not all given to
you at the same time just go with that which everyone was given to you first go
ahead and knock that out because you'll have had a head start on the the other
tasks and be able to do that faster and so which everyone was given to you first
or which everyone is do first I would I would go ahead and start with that one
so timing matters definitely you want to you know make sure you're meeting all
your deadlines of course but I would start with the one that was assigned to
you first or has the earliest due date second I would look at importance so
it's gonna be hard for you earlier in your career to really understand which
tests are important and can hold off a little bit or which ones need to be done
immediately for example with the meeting minutes I hate having sending out
meeting minutes late I had to have them go out day up I couldn't write them and
then send them out the next day I had to write them and send about that same day
because that's how the timing worked you know I gave people I gave the internal
team two days to review them and then you know I would you know have them do
it for two days and then I would you know finalize them after that make sure
everyone had their action items in etc etc the timelines were very important to
me because you know you're juggling multiple studies at one time multiple
sets of meeting minutes so it was vital to me to have those timelines set in
stone and have very little variation if any from those timelines so if that's
important to you you want to make sure that that's that set in stone and set in
place there also if you've got a big one that your manager keeps hounding you
about and is like hey we need this done this is very important then obviously
you know that's important and you really need to
focus on getting that one done so you that's how you know it's important and
obviously this will come through with experience you'll be able to better
anticipate when things are gonna happen you won't be able to anticipate like
what things you know need to be made like for example after you know what
it's a study first starting to come up you'll have to make a study contact list
so everybody who's on the study and assigned to the study is gonna there
information is gonna have to be uploaded into this list so if you know early on
before your manage your project manager even you know assigned you to that
you're gonna have to you know you know you're gonna have to do it so you might
as well just go ahead and do it knock it out get it done beforehand impress your
manager and that's what really separates a good person a good employee from a not
good employee is the ability to anticipate what's coming ahead and act
on it so if you that's a major key tip right there anticipation but that's a
good way to you know help limit your your timelines and really help I guess
limit you going over timelines for things because it's really going to get
busy early on so separate your things by importance that's important and the
third tip I have for you today on how to prioritize your workload is simply ask
if you don't if you don't know how to best prioritize it you know ask your
manager ask some of your other colleagues like hey is this really
important do I need to focus on this right now or can it wait a little bit
later for me to do you know they've a lot of people you're gonna be working
with especially if you're entry-level are gonna be above you they're gonna be
more experienced than you so they're really gonna understand you know the
workflow of things in which things are more urgent than others so if you just
ask them I'm sure they'll be more than happy to lend a helping hand and let you
know which things you need to focus on immediately which things you can wait on
so ask ask your manager ask whoever you feel comfortable asking you know ask
somebody else in your shoes like hey like when you had to do deal with this
you know how did you prioritize and deal with those tasks so just to
summarize you've got you know timing you've got the importance you can
different you can prioritize by you can always ask to see how things should be
prioritized and those are the three tips I have for you on how you can prioritize
your workload in clinical research so I hope you guys enjoyed this video please
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