Week Five – Time Management Advice – David

Time Management Advice
Brookhaven Wesleyan Church
I interviewed Pastor John Walton the assistant pastor
January 21, 2009

Boundaries:
The way Pastor John sets boundaries so that he is not controlled by people is by establishing some office hours to be available. He will screen his phone calls, or have the secretary screen them for him. If the person comes with a situation that is not within his field or area of expertise, he will send them to another pastor. Also if it is a subject is “over his head”, for example, homosexuality; he will send them to another pastor.

Management advice:
1. Know your job description and do it well. He said to focus on your responsibilities and not someone else’s. Know what it is you need to do, and do it when it needs to be done. If you do it on time, then you will not fall into the “last minute rush”.
2. Be organized, when he just started he was not organized, and he wasted a lot of time looking for thing and not knowing where things were in his office. He said that he would set down some important papers and not remember where he put it.