In order to effectively reduce clutter you’ve
got to improve your time management skills. This fun and engaging activity
involves the use of play money in a mock auction to buy ideas for removing clutter
and maximizing time.
In order to effectively reduce clutter you’ve
got to improve your time management skills. This fun and engaging activity
involves the use of play money in a mock auction to buy ideas for removing clutter
and maximizing time.
Objectives
•To enable participants to
identify the types of time management ideas which appeal most to them.
•To consolidate and reinforce any previous learning of time
management techniques.
•To remind participants of the range of time management
approaches available.
•To give participants
practice in issue analysis and decision-making (via planning).
•To offer
a practical activity in obtaining by mock auction what the participants
have decided they require and to practice contingency decision-making
based on planning
Directions
1. Issue the handout which should be modified
to include fewer items than the number of participants. The items
should be those which have been discussed during the program
and have been found to be the more acceptable ideas; they may even be
the more novel ones.
Ask the participants to:
a. study the document
b.identify which of the Time
Ideas appeal to them most and which they would want to implement
2. Issue $150.00 in assorted play money and
inform the participants that you will
be holding an auction for the Time Ideas and that they should now decide
their strategy for buying the Ideas.
3.
Allow time for:
a. planning revision of
selected ideas
b.strategy planning for the
auction
4.
Conduct the auction.
5.
Hold a plenary session after the completion of the auction to consider
a. to what extent were the
plans fulfilled?
b.
to what extent did they have to modify the original plans?
c.how difficult was this?
d.
how much pressure was felt from the auction?
e.what had they learned from the activity?
Handout:
Time Management Ideas
(This list is based on an
activity with twelve participants. If there are more than twelve,
the number of ideas could be increased to twelve for a group of
eighteen,
for example, or reduced to six for a group of ten.)
1. Decide your personal Aims, Objectives and
Activities and have these written down in a very convenient place for regular review.
2. Use the priority system A, B, C, D to
review the tasks you have to do and your
morning mail.
3. Use the two "To-Do" lists system
and discipline yourself to its regular use.
4. Have a published starting time for your
meeting. Stick to it. Have a published finishing time. Stick
to it.
5. Negotiate with a colleague telephone
watch-time while you perform an urgent task: negotiate a
reciprocal arrangement.
6. Handle each piece of paper only once if at
all possible and when handled, do
something with it: don't just look at it (again, and again and again!). Use a Mail Analyzer.
7. Keep a personal Time Log for intervals at different
periods and don't forget to analyze them-
8. Learn speed reading; speed comprehension