The purpose of your practical productivity coaching is to help you enjoy life more by getting your work done easier and faster. The results reported in a survey of 1000 of our clients confirm that you'll be able to free up between 20-90 minutes every day, leaving you with more time to do what YOU want to do at work, with family, playing golf… because you’ll now have that stress free time!

Results and Benefits

You will be able to respond quickly to new inputs and opportunities. You’ll stop feeling overwhelmed by the sheer volume of information coming at you all the time. Instead, you’ll experience the flip side of the “I don’t have time” syndrome. You’ll be more relaxed, more focused and ultimately more in control. Your mind, desk and office will be de-cluttered and you’ll literally feel that much lighter.

Your paperwork and electronic information will be so well organised, you won’t waste any more time looking for things. It has been found that executives in the USA waste as much as 28 minutes per day looking for things! E-mail becomes a breeze and you’ll begin using MS Outlook (or your current information management software) in a seamless and integrated manner. This allows you to be “ready for anything” and well prepared to execute actions irrespective of what the often unpredictable day brings you.

A huge benefit is that your actual work is the “curriculum”, so a lot of things actually get done during our time together.

You’ll work more effectively with your assistant as s/he can form part of our team. If you wish, we can work individually with assistants as well.

How we’ll work together

One of the most important benefits of individual tuition and coaching is that you don’t have to leave your office to attend a course or workshop and then try and implement it afterwards. We come to your office and work with you there for one or two days depending on your needs.

Together we design a workflow management system that suits your way of working and your way of thinking. There are certain basic principles that will guide us, but it is crucial that your system follows your unique ways!

Before we get together, we’ll identify your personal style for time and space management. This will assist us in making sure that the system we put in place be compatible with the way you prefer to manage your time and space – it doesn’t matter if you manage your time as a Hopper, Perfectionist Plus, Allergic to Detail, Fence Sitter, Cliff Hanger or if you organise your space as Everything Out, Nothing Out, Right Angler or Total Slob. You don’t have to change your preferred way of working - we simply adapt your new system to that.

At your office, we’ll gather everything in your physical and mental world that still needs your attention – these are your “open loops” that keep tugging at your attention. This includes the stuff in your physical “IN” tray, your e-mail Inbox, desk top and drawers, voicemail, meeting notes, past and future calendar items as well as everything you currently carry in your head. It’s crucial to get a sense of how much you still need to attend to!

We’ll then evaluate, clarify and organise every item in that pile of stuff we’ve collected. This is a simple but powerful process. You’ll evaluate each item to see if it fits in with the bigger picture of your life, whether you still need to take action or whether you can file or trash it. You’ll identify and list all your current projects and create a simple plan of action with the aid of a free mind mapping tool that we’ll provide.

Your next actions are identified and organised in your new information management system. If you opt for our one-day service, there will still be unprocessed items left at the end of the day for you to “push through the pipe”, but you now have the tools and the motivation to follow through with your next actions.

Are you ready to dump a lot of clutter from your office? Our process is the means to do this successfully. Clutter represents decisions you have not made yet. Although this is not the primary purpose of our time together, it will have a huge impact on you – you’ll travel through life much lighter! One of our clients referred to this part of the process as a “spiritual cleansing” because he got closure on so many things and could move on with his life.

Please contact us if you have any further questions or if you wish to book a session