Meeting agreed deadlines are very important in any business
environment to improve organisation’s good reputations, honesty, productivity,
reliability and own professional development. To meet agreed deadlines, you
must have own plan to the specific task and time frame. Plan should be made once
task or target is received. But you must not agree to the given time frame for
specific task until you make your own plan about how you will accomplish the
task within given time frame and reach to the goal. To create a plan for the
specific task you must take into consideration the followings:
Tasks are
real and accomplishable
Previous
experiences: Did you have difficulties to meet deadlines previously? If
so, then would it interfere in present tasks or reoccur again. Or create and
follow a plan which has been successful to meet agreed deadlines previously?
Accessible
resources: What do you need to accomplish the task? And Do you have the
accessibility to all the resources you need? Suppose, you will be producing 10000
pack of crisps a day or produce invoice or budget. Do you have all the
materials or information in hand to produce that quantity?
Accessible
support: You may need support from others to accomplish the task to
meet agreed deadlines. You may need support from Manager, supersviser, human
resources and maintenance team. You have to take into account accessibility of
all the support you may need during this time.
Real Time
Frame: Time is the real factor to meet agreed deadlines. So you will
be agreed to the time frame only if you can accomplish the task in given time
following your plan.
Review time
(Data accuracy): ‘To err is human’. Therefore review is required before
delivering any task. So you need to set up review time before delivering the
task or reaching agreed deadlines.
Other
Interference: It is the main factor you need to take into consideration
before being agreed on any deadlines. Mishap can occur any time. Anything can
go wrong. Therefore, you should have a plan for each issue to recover from.
You need to take into consideration above all to meet agreed
deadlines. Your plan is most important to meet any deadlines. Therefore you
should have two plans. I have already mentioned one above and other is
‘emergency crisis plan’. You must have an ‘emergency crisis plan’ for each
project where you will plan ahead about imaginary viable circumstances can
cause disruption to meet agreed deadlines.
