Focused; Organised and Effective Self-Management Programme

As managers we spend most of our time learning the skills needed to manage others. We are focused on helping others to perform to their maximum. What we often neglect is the relatively simple art of applying the same process of learning and development to ourselves.

At Summerhouses we use training and coaching to address that imbalance, we work with you to examine your life priorities, establish prioritisation techniques to ensure that your efforts are concentrated on those priorities and ways of working to ensure that you always make best use of your time.

Focused

We give you the opportunities to step back and look at life as a whole. We will explore your values and beliefs through a technique of values elicitation – what is really important to you in life

This will then help you to identify the elements of your Personal Values Statement a fundamental document that leads easily into the production of a vision for 3-5 year planning and specific goals and targets for 1-2 year planning.

The approach uses Steven Coveys ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ , it is holistic and does not concentrate solely on one area of activity [work/ home] but produces the proper balance required to achieve true success in all areas of your life.

Organised

Without organisation the best plans are doomed to fail. This may well have happened to you in the past. Resolutions and determined actions crumble as the realities of life sweep you off course. Having so carefully identified your priorities it is vital to put in place the systems that will maintain momentum and concentrate your efforts on your priorities through even the wildest of storms.

Again using Steven Covey’s prioritisation principles “Put First Things First” we will build a system together that will ensure you spend time on tasks and projects that work towards your personal values.

We will also work to find suitable strategies for spending less time on unimportant tasks and ‘busywork’. Your energies will be channelled towards the highly productive and developmental areas of your life.

Effective

Here we work together to put in place effective systems for everyday use that capture your tasks and projects and organise them in such a way that you always feel ‘on top’ of your workload. Based on principles outlined in David Allen’s internationally famous book ‘Getting Things Done’ we create highly effective systems that suit your way of working and which ensure that no day is wasted in working towards your priorities. You will be perceived as highly effective and responsive by those you work with. You will also be able to properly ‘switch off’ and enjoy your leisure time without the stress of tasks and responsibilities not done.