Goals and tasks, they are two different languages.

Putting the impossible into practice is the real sign of extraordinary perseverance.

? -Zweig

Entering a new field, have you ever encountered such a situation, feeling that there are a lot of things to deal with in front of you, but where to start? How come? Many times, there is no clear thinking.

So, the result is this. When I do this, there is one more thing in my mind. In this switching back and forth, I looked at my watch and found that it had been several hours, but none of the work at hand had been completed.

Some time ago, I encountered such a situation at work and fell into inefficiency.

After realizing this problem, adjust quickly and take the initiative to improve. What can I do to get rid of a busy but actually ineffective job?

Listening to the "Get" column "Five Minutes Business School" inspired me and found problems about the goals and tasks.

I made a mistake in the process of work, and my thinking was unclear. I didn't distinguish the difference between goals and tasks, so I fell into a busy state. I looked hard, but I just didn't achieve my goal and got the expected result.

Share the contents of the following harvest.

First of all, what are the concepts of goals and tasks?

You know, they are two different languages.

For example, at the work meeting, the manager told the employees what kind of performance the company needs to achieve this month, expecting everyone to work together to achieve this goal.

There seems to be nothing wrong with this, but after a month, the performance is still at the original level and has not improved.

How did this happen? The problem lies with the manager, who just said the goal. How to achieve the goal? What the hell should I do? Not explicitly distributed to employees.

How to turn a goal into a task is actually a process of turning a result into an achievable result. A deep understanding of the logic of achieving goals and task decomposition is one of the basic skills of managers.

Employees are responsible for tasks and managers are responsible for objectives.

Understand task decomposition from the following two dimensions.

I. Understanding from a spatial perspective

1, wbs (work breakdown structure)

Is to constantly dismantle the target.

First, the goal is decomposed into tasks, then the tasks are decomposed into specific tasks, and finally the tasks are assigned to specific responsible persons.

Goal-> Task-> Work-> Individual

2, a few points for attention:

1) Each job can only be entrusted to one person;

2) All assigned tasks should be the sum of tasks without gaps;

3) Every task should have a deliverable result.

In the most popular words, work is carried out by individuals, and power and responsibility are equally important.

Second, understand from the time dimension.

1, which divides the target into time periods;

2. Constantly adjust methods to motivate the team.

The time dimension is relatively easy to understand. After breaking down the task into several realizable small tasks, make a plan and finish what when.

Take a personal case as an example. I want to learn financial related knowledge, so I found the MIT online open course "Introduction to Finance" and followed the course. I have thirteen classes. I plan to spend two hours a day and three days digesting the content of a class, so it will take 39 days to finish the general content of this class.

It is not so difficult to break down the task into feasible small tasks. The rest is to be friends with time and wait patiently for the result.