Powerful and productive strategies for leaders and teams
to take back control of your time.
Time. We all have an equal amount - but what we manage to achieve with it can vary greatly. We might think we need more of it - but the truth is we can be far more effective if we learn how to master the time we have. That’s Time Mastery. It’s about moving beyond time management - in fact, it’s about banishing it forever.
What about the responsibilities that come with leadership and entrepreneurial roles? Doesn’t being overwhelmed and time starved come with the territory? It doesn’t have to be this way. Much of the time we lose comes from being controlled by other people’s priorities - at the expense of our own.
Time Mastery is about liberating time. Your time. It’s about understanding your time challenges and taking back control by making simple changes to your day to day activity. It’s also about helping others see how they use their time - so they then become more efficient and productive.
Whether you want to have more time to deliver on those big projects, delegate better, or just make the most of your time for the things that are important to you, Time Mastery is a highly efficient approach. Don’t just manage time, Master it.
Time Mastery Programmes
Based on the no 1 bestselling book by Monkey Puzzle Co-founders John McLachlan and Karen Meager, our Time Mastery programmes will help those who want to master how they manage their time, lead remote teams, work more sustainably and improve flow in work and life.
Here are some of our most popular Time Mastery programmes and the content we cover:
Time Mastery
This one day programme is for everyone who would like to master how they manage their time and improve flow in work and life.
You won’t get lots of generalised hints and tips on this programme, instead you will learn how to design a way to manage and utilise the resource of time so that you can achieve more of the things you want to, both day to day and life in general.
You will:
- Discover how to become unconsciously competent at managing your time
- Learn to work with your life resources of time, money and health to find the right rhythm for you
- Discover your energy thresholds and redesign your work and life routines accordingly
- Explore how you sabotage your time and find out how to change unproductive habits
- Find out your natural time chunking preference and how to use it
- Find your flow and be more productive
- Learn how to communicate your time boundaries effectively with others so that the everyone can work at their most effective
- Think through how to adapt your management of time in a remote working situation (if appropriate)
The workshop will be practical and a blend of trainer led group discussion(s) and working in pairs or small groups on real life time challenges. The topics covered in this workshop can be tailored to individual organisational and personal needs of the group.
For example it has been adapted for a focus on remote working (or a hybrid of in/ out office model) for Boards and Senior Leadership Teams and for organisations looking to encourage healthier work life balance.
Working Sustainably
This one day course is for those who want to manage their own time and energy levels better and become more effective and efficient.
For many, working remotely or in a hybrid model, mixing office and home working, can be particularly challenging. This course is packed with practical and easy to apply ways to master time, maintain energy and thrive - both within work and in life in general.
You will:
- Understand how you ‘do’ time naturally and build a rhythm and flow of organising and prioritising that works for you
- Discover how you unintentionally sabotage your own time and drain your energy
- Learn easy and quick steps you can take to give yourself more available time
- Learn how to keep focused and manage distractions
- Learn how to set and keep boundaries around time and set and manage other peoples’ expectations
- Find your flow and be more productive
- Explore your time related habits and develop a plan for becoming more efficient
- Learn how other people naturally ‘do’ time and how to utilise that when working alongside them
- Explore how to improve work life balance
Everyone will receive a digital copy of Time Mastery; Banish Time Management Forever (hard copies can also be sent if required).
Leading Teams & Projects Remotely
This one day course is for leaders and managers and is particularly focused on the challenges of working remotely or in a hybrid (part time in office) model.
This course is packed with practical and easy to apply ways to get the best from your team, help them to manage their workloads effectively and communicate masterfully in remote or hybrid workplaces.
You will:
- Learn how to build flow in your teams’ work when working remotely
- Unpack issues of prioritising and micro managing that can happen when managing remotely and learn how to find the right balance for you and your team
- Discover how to make the most of different modes of working (asynchronous communication, team meetings, one to ones)
- Learn how to keep focused and manage work and non work distractions appropriately
- Learn how to set and keep boundaries around time and set and manage other peoples’ expectations
- Develop a plan for becoming more efficient as a leader and as a team
- Learn how other people naturally ‘do’ time and how to utilise that when coaching and delegating
- Learn how to support other people with their time management problems
- Explore how to improve work life balance and energy levels for you and your teams
Everyone will receive a digital copy of Time Mastery; Banish Time Management Forever (hard copies can also be sent if required).
Want to find out more?
If you would like us to put together a Time Mastery proposal for your organisation, please contact us.
After learning Time Mastery with Karen, our Partners came away with productivity protocols we could implement in the Practice straightaway. This makes us both productive and consistent as a senior team whilst still leaving space for our individual styles and ways of working. Really important for us as a growing business.
By following Karen & John’s methodology, Leaders not only master their own time, they become an excellent efficiency role model for others. This improved everyone’s productivity and results at EdenTree, allowing us to focus on our mission of delivering Profits with Principles for our clients.
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