Sticky Learning Lunches #37: Think You Don't Need to Attend This Webinar?

This 7-part model will help you to find out what is wrong with your time management. Today's episode is I Don't Need to Attend this Webinar Part 1.

You will learn:

- Each of the 7 parts of the time management system.

- How each part is essential to creating an effective time management system.

- The holes that are exposed in your time management system by not having any one of the 7 pieces.

- Practical tips to incorporate any one of the 7 parts of the time management system.

- The strengths and weaknesses of your time management system.

You Can Read the Full Transcript Below:

Nathan Simmonds:

Welcome to today's Sticky Learning Lunch. It's Friday. It's exciting. Monday's exciting. Friday's exciting. Every day is exciting and we're gonna be delivering some exciting content that's gonna help you get a bit more focus with what you're doing. Just giving it a few more minutes while we're waiting for the last people to arrive into the room. Xavier, massive shout out to you for being so early. Really, really appreciated.

Nathan Simmonds:

Good to see you Tim. Good to see Janine again. Jane, hello. Thank you for being here. Fabian, Darren. Colin, thank you for being here. Who else have we got in at the moment? Abby, good to see you. Just gonna give it 10, 15 more seconds just to let the last few people arrive. We won't hold it against anyone if they're late, even though this is time management. Just kidding.

Find out the 7-part time management model and whether you need to attend this webinar

 

Nathan Simmonds:

Ah yeah, just remember bun. Wanna see a sub, right? Just while we're setting everyone up for success, let's make sure we get this right. Mobile phones as always, flight mode, zero out the distraction. A hundred percent attention on what we're doing here today. A hundred percent Focus on who you are, what you need to get out of this, and how you're gonna develop yourself. The only investment that is ever guaranteed is the one that you make in yourself. And if you're going to that with any vague intentions, you're only ever gonna get a vague output.

Nathan Simmonds:

So let's be super clear on that. Phone's off, emails closed down. Close down Your social media feeds a hundred percent attention on you in this second thing. As always, fresh page, fresh thinking, fresh page in the notepad at the top, you're gonna write keepers up there is gonna be the things you want to keep hold of the things you wanna remember. Remind yourself about the things that you want to, to reignite that imagination and keep that thinking going and keep the learning sticky. And then finally, making sure you've got a drink available. We're gonna go into this in just one more second. Good afternoon Karen. Good to see you.

Nathan Simmonds:

Let's go then. So welcome to today's Sticky Learning lunch with me. Nathan Simmons, senior leadership coach and trainer for MBM Making Business Matter, home of Sticky Learning. And we are the leadership development and soft skills provider to the grocery and manufacturing industry. Idea of these sticky learning, these sticky lunches is to give you new information, new ideas that's gonna help you take your skillset to a whole new level.

Nathan Simmonds:

Helping you be the best version of you in the work that you do right today. Well actually not just today, for the next seven days, we're gonna be looking at time management and the hurdles that go with our time management and the hurdles that we need to overcome to make sure we're doing the best that we can with the time and the space that we have available. On a scale of one to 10, one being terrible, 10 being phenomenal, how is your time management right now? I've got an eight coming in. Ivy, great to see you again. Thank you for being here.

Nathan Simmonds:

We've got a five, we've got an eight, got a nice mix of numbers already coming through. Haha, I drink team mid-sentence 6 5 7, 7 0.57. Wow. Okay, we're all feeling like we're a little bit in the middle of the road here, there or thereabouts in the majority in the question box. A couple of eights here, which is nice in the question box, what's one thing that you would like to learn or would like to improve about your time management from the next seven days? Let's get a flavor of what's going on with the thinking right now.

Nathan Simmonds:

Gonna say Ivy. Ivy, I don't think I've seen you since the personal development session, so it is lovely to see you here again, thank you. Sticking to what I've listed in my diary to do. Absolutely not leaving everything until the last minute, Abby. Definitely you're gonna gonna get a link in. So while this is coming through, we're gonna get a link in for the future sessions around time management. If you haven't already registered, do so in that link though, Abby are the link to the previous sessions. And in there you're gonna find there's three sessions that we've just done around procrastination and that may really help you with some of these elements as well. Not being distracted, how to stay focused, prioritizing good, we've got some key elements in here.

Nathan Simmonds:

So let's dive into this and keep hold of these. So these things you put in the question box, let's make sure that you are writing those down on your page and you've got 'em in front of you and you've got 'em there as a, an individual learning objective for yourself. So it's gonna help you kind of develop your thinking in that space and keep hold of that. It's really important in a second. That link for tomorrow's session will, sorry not to my not , the future sessions will come up and we'll dive into that. Oh, excuse me.

Nathan Simmonds:

So what are we gonna be covering today and moving forward in these next sessions we're gonna be looking at the seven hurdles around time management. And these are things that, you know, the often the challenges that we hit or we're not very good at or that we now, we are missing something in that area that stops us from moving forward and enabling us to manage our time.

Nathan Simmonds:

It's interesting kind of misnomer though about managing time because you can't manage it. It's gonna do what it's gonna do. The only thing that you can do is create a structure inside it that helps you achieve what you want to. And some of that comes down to personal development planning. So how you structure those, those elements out. How you take note of the things that you need to do more often than not and then make sure that you execute against those. So let's be super clear.

Nathan Simmonds:

Time is always gonna do what it needs to do. You just need to change certain elements of what you do and just turn the heat up and dial certain things down in order to get the best out of those moments that you, that you section off for yourself. So what are the seven hurdles? I've got 'em listed down here. The first one is capturing how we make sure we're getting that information down. The second one is listing how we make sure that's documented and compartmentalized and prioritized. I'm writing it a bit Simon because I've got quite a lot to put up here today. Emptying, making sure actually when you go to those pockets and those buckets that you are taking the stuff out of them at the right time and getting them cleared down,

Nathan Simmonds:

Deleting it doesn't need to intake it out, making sure when it's done it's removed. Storing where you're holding that data to make sure you know where it is and you can get to it at the right times. Scheduling where you put it in your diary to make sure that it does happen. And the last one of these seven is acting. As I just said though, execution, making sure that you do take the time to get it done and getting it and making sure those things are, you know, these seven elements are where we often stumble when it comes to our time management.

Nathan Simmonds:

So take a note of those 'cause each one of these days we're gonna be ticking off one of these as we move through this, but what is the one thing that makes time management? What does second to last one say? Storing how many people here? Yes or no. If you've got a good memory one below that one. Oh, sorry. Scheduling. Apologies. Scheduling, yes or no? Have you got a good memory? Got lots of yeses coming through. Good. Got one note.

Nathan Simmonds:

How do you feel about your time management then on a scale of one to 10, like I said earlier, know, how are you feeling? How do you feel about the systems that you've got in place? One terrible 10 phenomenon. I've got yes or no? Depends on the value of the experience. Got eight on a system, six on a, I wrestle with them, you know, seven. I think that's a seven. It could be a minus seven, I'm not sure that would be quite bad on a one to 10 scale, 4, 7, 5.

Nathan Simmonds:

Okay. So it's just bearing in mind that yes, you may have a good memory and we'll talk about that in a second, but it's having trust in your systems and understanding how you work as an individual that's gonna make the difference to your time management. How many times have you heard people say, yeah, I'm, I'm really forgetful.

Nathan Simmonds:

I've got a really bad memory. How often do we hear this? A lot? Yes. No, maybe from ourselves or maybe from the people around us. Me of it's absolutely. Well the truth is it's not that you've got a bad memory, it's what you think of yourself and that memory. Now how many things are we being asked to do on a daily basis and then we give ourselves a hard time for forgetting something. When we get home, now we have a a list of objectives of things we want to get done during our day. We have our outlook calendar in our back to back meetings.

Nathan Simmonds:

We've got a task list, we've got a note bad with a to-do list in there, all these fantastic things. And then something else comes in,