Focus

Who it is for

A cross-functional programme for professionals in any area with a high volume of demands: technical and admin staff, executive assistants, project managers, and sales teams.

Objective

Enable professionals to organise their work by priority and impact, implement a personal task and information management system, protect blocks of time for deep work, and sustain focus in a digital environment.

Curriculum

1. 1Diagnosis: where does my time go3 hours

   • Productivity is not doing more: the test is impact
   • Recording and analysing where your time actually goes
   • The main time-wasters, internal and external
   • What an interruption really costs, and what fragmented work does to output
   • The illusions of productivity: multitasking, permanent availability, instant replies
   • Exercise: your individual map of time use
2. 2Priorities and planning3 hours

   • Urgent and important: the Eisenhower matrix applied to an ordinary day
   • The Pareto principle and finding the tasks with the highest return
   • Setting priorities for the day and for the week
   • Time-blocking and realistic scheduling
   • Estimating duration: why we get it wrong every time, and how to correct for it
   • Exercise: planning next week
3. 3Personal organisation systems3 hours

   • Why to-do lists fail, and what replaces them
   • Capture, clarify, organise, review: the principles of a system you can trust
   • Treating email as a workflow
   • Organising information and files: finding instead of searching
   • Digital tools: how to choose them and how they scatter you
   • Exercise: designing each participant’s personal system
4. 4Focus, attention and energy3 hours

   • Deep work: the conditions, the duration, and how to protect it
   • Techniques for holding focus and timed work cycles
   • Managing energy and your own rhythms across the day
   • Digital hygiene: notifications, the phone, and always being reachable
   • Procrastination: where it comes from and how to get started anyway
   • Exercise: designing a focused work routine
5. 5Productivity in a team context3 hours

   • Meetings: when they are justified, how to prepare them, how to run them
   • Alternatives to meetings, and asynchronous communication that works
   • Managing requests and expectations: negotiating deadlines and saying no professionally
   • Delegating and asking for help as productivity skills
   • Productivity and personal sustainability: preventing overload
   • Exercise: drawing up your personal productivity plan

Skills you will develop