Hello, this is Laura Lee Rose – Corporate Exit Strategist for the blooming entrepreneur – and I am a business and life coach that specializes in Time Management, Project management training and work-life balance strategies.  Today we are sharing tips on how to handle multiple (and often conflicting) directives from various clients, managers and stakeholders.

Whether we are in the corporate environment or starting our own small business, we have competing resources for our attention, skills and talents.  How can we not only professionally handle these multiple and unclear job directives, but use these opportunities to propel us forward faster?

Step 1) Acknowledge and congratulate ourselves for being in demand. Because we are valuable in our field of choice, people do come to us for our advice and coaching.  We don’t want to stop this trend.  We don’t want to resent the people that value and need us.  We just want to take better advantage of this great phenomenon.   You need to create a daily schedule that allows you to get important work done and handle the expected interruptions.  Although you don’t’ know exactly what will interrupt you, you know that you will be interrupted.  Therefore, the intelligent thing to do is to schedule and integrate interruption time into your daily schedule.