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Set Your Objective! - Time Management Skills
Duration: 1 hour + debrief
Participants: 3-24 (up to four teams of 3-6 per team)
Who: Staff at any level
PC required: None
Price:
£350.00
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Establish SMART objectives, pick the tasks to achieve it - then put your objectives to the test! Packed with learning for improving your prioritisation skills - and fun - from all the mistakes teams make!
Faced with a variety of tasks, more than you can cope with – you’ll set SMART objectives to help decide which tasks will best maximise performance in the time available.
At this stage tasks are described in general terms so it’s impossible to complete them but in stage two you receive full information on your chosen tasks - and just 25 minutes to complete them. You’ll be scored on the quality of your ability to achieve your objectives.
Teams make all sorts of mistakes. They jump in without thinking, overlook the obvious, misread, over-estimate time, under-estimate work rate and forget to pay attention to detail!
A powerful exercise for demonstrating the importance of prioritisation skills, setting realistic targets and completing work on time in line with the main objective. How often do we choose tasks that we enjoy doing at the expense of what needs doing?
Faced with a variety of tasks, more than you can cope with – you’ll set SMART objectives to help decide which tasks will best maximise performance in the time available.
At this stage tasks are described in general terms so it’s impossible to complete them but in stage two you receive full information on your chosen tasks - and just 25 minutes to complete them. You’ll be scored on the quality of your ability to achieve your objectives.
Teams make all sorts of mistakes. They jump in without thinking, overlook the obvious, misread, over-estimate time, under-estimate work rate and forget to pay attention to detail!
A powerful exercise for demonstrating the importance of prioritisation skills, setting realistic targets and completing work on time in line with the main objective. How often do we choose tasks that we enjoy doing at the expense of what needs doing?
- to define and agree work objectives
- to set realistic targets within the time constraint
- to plan and prioritise use of time
- to think before acting
- to allocate team roles / utilise team members’ individual skills
- to use the SMART process when setting objectives
- Divide participants into teams.
- Issue Briefing Folders and explain the activity. Allow 40 minutes Planning Time.
- At the end of the 40 minutes, collect Contract Sheets and issue specific task details for those tasks teams have chosen to complete.
- Allow groups to begin on the Action Phase. After 15 minutes, issue the Unexpected Task. After 25 minutes, check each team’s Main Task.
- Award scores and lead a Debrief on team experiences and key lessons about planning, time management and setting objectives.
- Link to the workplace and how team members can improve their own performance at work.
Ben Steedon, Learning & Development, Family Investments
Used to support training on “Organising Your Day”, the best learning points were: not to rush into action; to understand your brief fully; and not make assumptions. A fun group activity, which draws out common failings around organising your day.
Kim Summers, Group Trainer, United Advertising Publications Plc
I use it as a Time Management exercise with all staff including Sales, Production, Credit Control, Marketing, IT etc. I run the first part before lunch and the second part after lunch.
The best learning point is that people take on too much. It brings out a lot of aspects of people’s personalities. It shows that when under pressure, people revert to things that they are comfortable with.
Employee Development Officer, Scottish Council
Excellent! All groups love Set your Objective!
Martin Clarke, Inspire Change Ltd
Love Set Your Objective” – works 100% every time.
- Department of Agriculture, Belfast
- DHL International
- Granada TV
- KPMG
- McGrigor Donald
- News International
- One2One
- Powergen
- RNLI
- Northants County Council
- Trainer’s Notes
- Team Folders
- Task Cards
- Straws (for tower)
- Contract Sheet Pad
- Scoresheet
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