These ideas are ways to start planning effectively, and useful things to do! You might use these as evidence of planning skills in a written application if you haven’t been involved in larger projects, and you are likely to talk about how you organise yourself at interview.
- Set time aside to plan when starting a major activity.
- Make and use revision timetables.
- Define responsibilities early when starting a collaborative task.
- Research different methods and tools available, and consider which suit you best. For example…
- Use a diary or calendar and use Outlook's Scheduling Assistant or Doodle polls to coordinate your diary with others.
- Use “to-do lists” to prioritise and monitor your tasks.
- Manage your emails using folders, rules and categories/tags, see this Microsoft Office article for ideas.