Handle Interruptions
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People
Paper
Environmental Interruptions
Interruptions
Interruptions
Superior: you can
o Telephone Calls - try to
respectfully ask
o Notes
hold and return
for a delay
o Memos
o Visual distractions
Associate
o Correspondence
o Comfort factors
Subordinate
o Periodicals
o You might need a
Customer:
o Messages
hideaway
consider it a
o Projects
o Email
contact not an
interruption
If an interruption is part of your job then you need to decide whether it
is more important than your current task
Tasks handled by interruptions take longer