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Often just a little more productivity at work is all that you need in order to get a promotion or a raise.

When you adopt a few easy time management practices into your daily job, you and your boss will notice improvement in the results you deliver each day. Instead of patiently waiting for your boss to pick you for that next promotion, try these suggested tactics to get noticed and get promoted.

1. Clear the clutter. If your desk is cluttered, and your papers are all a mess, your boss is going to notice. They may not say anything, and maybe won't even consciously notice, but come promotion time, it will be in their mind. Consider this, if you have two candidates, equally qualified for the promotion, but one had a clean and neat desk, while the other's desk was a mass of clutter, who would you promote? "Mr. Neat and Tidy" or "Clutter Boy"?

So clean up the clutter. The first benefit is that in doing so will make you more efficient because you won't have to go sorting through all your clutter just to find that important paper. The second benefit is that when you boss stops by your formerly cluttered, but not neat and organized office, he's going to take notice. It may even spark a conversation where you get to introduce the idea that you're serious about your work and want to move up in the company. Whatever it takes, just clean the clutter and keep it that way.

2. Create an environment that supports your productivity. Rather than rely solely on your own will power to be productive and efficient, structure your environment to give you a "leg-up" in achieving your time management goals. Here's a simple exercise for you to do. Pick 5 objects currently in your office. One by one, look at each and ask your the simple question of whether that object supports your productivity or detracts from it. Just be honest with yourself when you answer. It's your life and your time. You need to take it seriously and be honest.

The hardest part of this might be simply being honest with yourself. Once you do get honest and start taking action to get rid of the things in your workspace which don't support your time management goals, you'll immediately notice a difference. Your energy will rise. So just take action and only fill your workspace with things that support your goals.

Your increased energy and higher productivity is what managers look for when it comes time to hand out promotions.

3. Handle emails, calls, and request efficiently. So much communication happens all day at the office and it's easy to get buried and let things like email pile up in your inbox. You can improve your chances for promotion if you respond quickly and efficiently to any and all emails, phone messages and conversations.

Keeping your email inbox under control is a tough thing to do, but you have to do it. Learn about various sorting and filtering functions that are part of your email program so you can sort the emails into different groups according to where they come from. Set up one group for your boss, one group for your peer level employees and one for your friends. Handle the emails from your boss quickly and efficiently, with response that briefly communicate that you understand what he/she is looking for and that you are following through on your responsibilities.

After you handle the emails from your boss, go ahead and answer the emails to your peers or other employees at your level. Use the same efficient and effective language you use with your boss and don't worry if these people wonder why you always answer the boss first. That's the way it supposed to be done and when it is time for your boss to give a promotion, he will see you as the person who communicates well and good communication is critical in the work place.

Here's a quick note about emails from your friends. First off, if an email from your friend is sitting on the company email server, your company will be able to open it and read it. If your friend decides to send too many jokes or even offensive information to you, your company will find out and this will damage your chances for promotion. This means you should have a private, non-work email address that your friends use when they want to email you.

These are 3 simple time management and productivity tips you can use to help get a promotion at work. By adopting them, you send a clear message to your boss to that you are "ready for a promotion". Good luck and have fun with it!

About the Author

For additional tips and hints about time management, be sure you claim your copy of author Michael Adams' exclusive free expert guide on tips for managing your time and multi-million dollar projects. Learn more at www.smart-time-management.com.

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