"How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever." - David Norris

Common wealth games 2010

Commonwealth Games 2010 in India has actually turned out good feed for writers, numerologists (read the article), astrologists who have now written and analyzed it extensively its scandalous and sordid affairs. But I have been more interested in it for its lesser known facts about the poor project management  and improper employee and contractor schedule . Gaps were tremendous; employee scheduling should have their number one priority task because labor is not a shortage in India and if the employees and contractors had been scheduled properly for the various projects the situation for their over time would not have arrived at first place or would not have been so critical that now almost every project is running overtime. Poor employee and contractor time management led to uncontrolled expenses as well. The committe should have spent about 50% of time on management and planning of the various projects and rest 50% on execution. Proper project management and expense management would have been a good answer to all those corruption allegations on the committee. Actually even if they had taken bribes in all those handshakes but would have delivered the best and in time, I am sure even press would have also ignored all those handshakes.Failure to deliver what you promised is not forgiven easily! So wake up all the corporates take your project managers and management more seriously.

Timesheets and more!

TimeMerlin offers employee time management software solutions for employee time sheets, status reports and project tracking. Used in SME's, TimeMerlin can offer managers timely information when assessing time and cost budgets of any project.

TimeMerlin not only helps you to manage your multiple projects with its much appreciated employee time sheets and status reports but also it helps to track holiday time, expenses, invoicing and performance reviews.  

Happy Employees

It has been a constant endeavour of most employers to have not only satisfied employees but also happy employees.
 Leaving the productivity and efficiency apart, happy employees help to maintain a time of wonderful cheer around. It is very important for an organization to have  a test of happiness at the time of interview. Test of happiness is as important as an 'aptitude test' or a 'behaviourial test'. Happy people become happy employees. As a part f hiring process in our organization, I have tried to include several questions that gauge happiness level. Very simple questions like 'what can  make you happy?" are a good start for happiness conversation. I have framed questions as I go - on the basis of the responses only. It is rigorous act; one response leading to the next question and so on. Generally people who gather pleasures from small things in life will remain happy in any given situation.

I believe happiness is transmitted by happy people only. It is infectious, Similarly unhappiness is highly contagious too.

Despite being extra cautious in making the right decision at the time of hiring, unhappy and stale people still penetrate in; what is the best way to handle them? I have struggled and have realized that something that an organization can help overcome employee unhappiness and to help generate positivity and happiness is by creating a happy environment. A positive environment will ensure people value their job and that will keep them satisfied. This will help to continue to keep workers productive, but at the same time help in creating a happy place to work. If the working environment is positive, then the workers will be positive as well. So ambience of the organization  should reflect positivity and encouragement. Keep it lively and vibrant.

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TimeMerlin invokes latent magician in you!!

Don't expect TimeMerlin application to be a magic wand, but be prepared for something more strange. It helps to invoke your latent capabilites and gradually transform you into "Magician" who charms and controls with its simplicity.

Best Self time managment tool

The simplest of all the self management tools and also the best of all of tips that I have practised and stuck on has been a plain paper and a pencil. There are no constraints involved, I can practically do this anywhere and anytime. And best of all that it can be easily folded and saved nicely in the wallet and then taken out again when needed.
Also I have realised that listing the tasks/activities are more important than priortization. Once the tasks have been listed and the most important ones identified, then only they should be compared against the time frame.
The most important ones take priorty and the rest can be categorised depending upon the time frame.
Once the most important ones or "must do" have been identified; I like to idenitfy the ones that can be delegated and eliminated. The handfuls that are left can now be adjusted to the availability of time.
I start my day with a fresh peice of paper and carry over the "left ones". With just a piece of paper and a simple pen, I have managed my all tasks very nicely and effeciently.
But most of the times I have really found myself struggling with the tasks that have been delegated.How do I keep a track of the activites that have been assigned to whom and with what deadline ? I have struggled hard to keep track of who is at what stage of that activity. My pen and paper failed me here. I needed a "time magician" - timemerlin. It was simply designed to get the day end status reports and timesheets.