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InBox - Time Management
New
Duration: 1 hour + debrief
Participants: Any number
Who: Staff at any level
PC required: None
Price:
£250.00
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An in-tray exercise with a difference - use with teams or individuals to assess fundamental time management skills.
Teams decide what in their in tray is important, what is urgent and what can be delegated. At the same time emails are flying in!
As general manager you face a pile of emails, notes, faxes, and letters. Deal with them through three forms. On Form A note urgent issues that need dealing with right away. On B list those you wish to delegate and to whom (you have a staff organisation chart). On C make a note of what you pick-up on regarding any problems in your department. There’s also a stream of new emails - ignore them at your peril! Talk about pressure!
Delivers key lessons about assessing each in-tray item on its own merit, prioritising them and delegating where appropriate - all easily forgotten time management tasks in a busy work environment! Reading between the lines the in-tray points to a few organisational problems. A good manager picks up on these issues. Ideal for both assessment and training.
Teams decide what in their in tray is important, what is urgent and what can be delegated. At the same time emails are flying in!
As general manager you face a pile of emails, notes, faxes, and letters. Deal with them through three forms. On Form A note urgent issues that need dealing with right away. On B list those you wish to delegate and to whom (you have a staff organisation chart). On C make a note of what you pick-up on regarding any problems in your department. There’s also a stream of new emails - ignore them at your peril! Talk about pressure!
Delivers key lessons about assessing each in-tray item on its own merit, prioritising them and delegating where appropriate - all easily forgotten time management tasks in a busy work environment! Reading between the lines the in-tray points to a few organisational problems. A good manager picks up on these issues. Ideal for both assessment and training.
- how to manage their time
- how to prioritise (important / urgent / unimportant)
- when to delegate
- to pick up on indicators of departmental problems
- to manage staff more effectively
- to assess their own time management skills
- Print off a set of InBox materials for each team.
- Explain what participants have to do.
- Issue Team Briefs and in-tray contents.
- Observe teams working through their in-trays. Issue emails as directed (these can be produced automatically from a laptop).
- After the activity lead a general discussion on the key lessons. Reveal the answers and allow teams to compare their decisions – usually provoking a lively discussion and plenty of disagreement!
- Relate the lessons to the workplace and summarise key points.
Full guidance provided in the Trainer’s Notes.
Paul Rodgers, Training Wisdom LtdWe use Inbox for teamwork training/time management training for Accountancy Trainees. Very interactive and creates an “air of reality”. A fun method of enhanced learning.
Graham Mills, MDP Training
Used as part of a two-day time management course, it highlighted prioritisation skills and the distinction between important and urgent. A high value activity for a manager and a really useful exercise to cement learning points.
Julia Willoughby, Hospitality Training ServicesUsed as part of a management development programme on a problem-solving module with a group of middle managers. The best learning points were problem-solving, negotiation and decision-making. A useful tool to get small groups working together and discussing issues while under pressure, with clear facilitator notes.
R. Haywood, Assessment Coaching & Training LtdUsed with too many groups to mention, InBox is flexible, focused and fun.
L. Hindley, The People Development CompanyWe use InBox at the outset of management courses and also to introduce the concept of how management NVQs work. We use it with first line and middle managers, supervisors and team leaders. It provides a good way of starting discussion and helps establish team-working practices and consensus seeking.
Head of Training, Legal Sector (name withheld)InBox fits the bill in our Assessment Centre, particularly for a Planning and Organising competence. It enables us to highlight team managers who potentially have problems with prioritising and delegating.
- Rushcliff Borough Council
- Reebok UK
- Lanarkshire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
- The Law Society
- Astrazeneca
- National Probation Service
- Honda UK
- Travel Lodge
- Strathclyde Fire Service
- St Mary’s College
- Trainer’s Notes
- CD-ROM
- Briefing sheets
- In-tray documents
- Analysis forms
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