Monday mornings in HR can feel especially intense, with competing priorities, employee queries, and urgent tasks all landing at once. How do you typically manage the workload at the start of the week, and what strategies have you found effective in staying organised and focused? As today was a day where I felt like I was drowning in it!

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I love using lists. (It doesn't work for everyone but I find it really helpful when I feel myself getting a little overwhelmed). Getting it onto paper allows me to see it all visually.
I find Mondays particularly difficult like yourself. Whenever a new task, enquiry, etc. comes in, if it's a task I can do immediately, I complete it then and there however, if I know it'll take a little more time, I add it to the bottom of the list. For number one priorities (including things with tight deadlines), they go to the top - these depend on each individual circumstance.
I also try to remember that I am still human and tasks take time. If I don't complete everything in that day, I know that it'll still be there when I come in tomorrow.

I used to be a write it down person and leave myself little sticky notes and somehow throughout the week I would loose the sticky notes and completely forget all about it until something that cropped up to remind me and I realised I hadn’t done it, I felt so useless but I was my own worst enemy!

Quietly drown .. I start by scrapping tasks that are soooo overdue its not even worth attempting them anymore

Yeah I get that, it’s nice just getting rid of them, it then feels like I have much less on my plate to deal with.

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