INVESTING YOUR TIME WISELY
Help your people learn brain-friendly tools that enable them to invest their time more wisely and make the most of this precious resource.
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Investing Your Time Wisely Course
Course Description
Very few employees have an accurate sense of the value of our time and the feeling of being busy and having too many things to do pervades our lives, and not just our working lives. Even fewer people plan the allocation of the precious hours available based on the value an investment of our time might reap. A mental flip is needed to value time and plan how to invest it.
This course sets out to create that mental flip and help your people learn brain-friendly tools that enable them to invest their time more wisely and make the most of this precious resource.
What topics are covered?
Our courses are tailored to your needs by selecting from a list of tools, each of which is an individual topic and takes about an hour. Each tool generally covers one key management skill, behaviour or attribute, is accompanied by a toolcard (which builds up to create a personalised toolkit) and uses our Tell-Show-Do experiential learning methodology.
You can select from the list of tools below to create learning that is just right for your needs or get in touch with one of our trainers to help design and curate the right programme for your team.
Your custom Investing your Time Wisely Toolkit:
Choose from:
1. Contribution vs Urgent Grid
We all have too much to do so Stephen Covey devised the ‘urgent vs important’ grid – but what makes something important? We have adapted Covey’s grid to be ‘urgent vs contribution’ – importance is defined as contribution or what makes the most difference to the success of the organisation. An enlightening take on a classic!
2. Flow
Everyone will have experienced ‘flow’, most without realising it! Learn about this positive mental state and how to use it to make the most of your precious time.
3. Gold Plating
Always exceed expectations? Maybe you are overinvesting. Learn how to spot this tendency and identify when it is prudent to invest and when good enough is good enough.
4. Golden Hours
We all have different biodynamic rhythms and few of us are at peak performance the whole day. This tool helps you identify your golden hours and how to use them well.
5. Investing your time wisely
A fun activity that helps you realise the value of your time and where to invest it more wisely.
6. Letting fires burn
Change takes an investment of time. Learn how to handle making that investment when you are very, very busy.
7. Plan, Do, Review
This iterative cycle creates an upward spiral through planning, taking action and learning from experience.
8. Sacred Cow
Use this tool to help identify what time sinks the organisation is holding on to that should be slaughtered (no cows were harmed in the making of this toolcard!).
How long is the course?
It depends on how many tools you selected from the list above! Each tool takes about an hour, with extra time for an introduction, any breaks that are needed and a wrap-up. Choose one tool or add them together - three tool make up half a day, and five or six tool make a full day.
What can you expect?
Interactive, thought-provoking training that can be virtual, face-to-face or a hybrid of the two. We use a variety of methods to create learning that sticks: from videos to activities and exercises in groups or individually, to e-learning, to further reading.
Outcome
As a result of implementing the Setting Direction tools, here’s what managers will be doing:
- I can co-create the Purpose, Way and Impact with my team, so we are all clear on where we’re headed, why and how.
- I can write SMART objectives and meaningful goals that help people focus on what’s important and what needs to be done.
- I can use shared expectations to engage teams.
- I know how to instil habits that enact personal change.
Register your interest:
Drop us a line and let us know if a Setting Direction Programme is just what you need.
We'll get back to you with more information and some dates and times for a quick call.
Uncertain on what Course?
If you’re not sure where to start, our Manager/Leader Capability Diagnostic identifies and recommends the learning and development your managers need to fulfil their current role and future aspirations.