for your to take on a leadership role<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\nIf you are staying late doing what you actually signed up to do, you need to objectively find out where the problem is. Is the plate too full and overwhelming? Did you misunderstand the job description? Are you doing everything right? Is your time management as should be? <\/span><\/p>\n<\/span>How to Do Overtime Strategically<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n\n- In order to avoid the pitfalls mentioned above, overtime to should be a strategic tool. You first need to ensure that your time management is good and that you are tackling what\u2019s important. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Identify the number of hours needed to complete each task and ensure your boss is aware of this. <\/span><\/li>\n
- If you feel like overtime is negatively affecting your productivity, conduct research on possible solutions and have this discussion with your boss. You will be surprised how many companies are willing to invest in efficiency. <\/span><\/li>\n
- If the tasks cannot be automated, emphasize on the importance of productivity and suggest some of these roles be delegated to junior team members in order to streamline processes. <\/span><\/li>\n
- Ensure you let your boss know that you are dedicated to achieving set targets and that you will be available when projects require overtime and going the extra mile. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span>Of Companies that Pay for Overtime<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\nCompanies that pay for overtime are a good demonstration that overtime is actually time that should be compensated. They usually have very clear guidelines that define what overtime is and what it isn\u2019t. Most of the time, overtime is approved by the team lead and the number of hours stated. <\/span><\/p>\nIf you work in such a company, you are forced to plan and manage your time well enough to complete all that is required of you in a day because a daily task cannot translate to overtime unless on special occasions. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes, a day is not enough to clear the backlog in your to-do list and you need to put in a few more hours to get things done. This means that overtime becomes a reality in your career. Short-term overtime, therefore, becomes a necessity in order to ensure your tasks are done and targets are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":8453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"content_author":[],"class_list":["post-8450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-at-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8450"},{"taxonomy":"content_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ke\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_author?post=8450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}