In Cooperation With The Economic Development Administration Of The Department Of Commerce Creating Quality is a monthly newsletter for manufacturers. It contains short articles on management, personnel, team building, financing, business assessment, international markets, productivity, and regulations. This is the time of year at University Outreach and Extension when all reports are due before our supervisor comes to evaluate our performance. All organizations and businesses require some sort of reports on a regular basis.
Reports are too easy to postpone.
Procrastination is needlessly postponing decisions or actions. You might disguise the procrastination response with an excuse like waiting for inspiration or needing a large block of time to concentrate with your full attention. It takes skill to differentiate between procrastination excuses and legitimate reasons for delaying a decision or action. Some workers who stomp on ants by cleaning off their desk, reading all their mail, making low priority phone calls or surfing the net are really procrastinating and putting off the inevitable task of writing that report. One reason why many people write a yearly report when they are under a tight deadline is that they have done little or no planning for the quarterly report.