Bangalore: Excessive workload increases the stress and ultimately leads to employee burn out. This can be effectively managed by proper utilization of time, resources and human power, in a coordinated manner. Also, activities such as accessing the priorities of individual tasks, breaking the given task into manageable components and accurately slotting each component into your schedule can help you in managing overload.    

Here are few tips which might help you to efficiently manage work overload, as reported by Rica Bhattacharya of ET bureau.

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Time management:

We have only seven days in a week and 24 hours in a day; hence time management becomes very critical to manage workload. Time management helps you to control and coordinate all your resources, and efficiently distribute the workload, thus ensuring maximum productivity within least possible time. Also time management eliminates stress and helps you to perform better.

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Prioritize your tasks:

Excessive work load can be efficiently managed by prioritizing the different tasks. You must accurately identify the task which needs immediate attention and the task which can be postponed. Thus prioritizing acts as a reliable task scheduling tool that ensures maximum allocation of resources to the task that needs immediate attention and prevents fragmentation of energy.