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Time Trial!™ | Time Management Training Activity
Time Trial!™ | Time Management Training Activity
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8 reviews
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8 reviews
It's the start of the week and the General Manager at Cavendish has lots to do! A short, sharp activity to deliver KEY lessons on organising your time effectively, increasing productivity and improving wellbeing.
how to prioritise important / urgent / not urgent but important etc
when to delegate and to whom
when just to say NO!
when to hold face-to-face meetings
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$577.00
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Product details
- Type Training Activity
- Timing 1 hour + debrief
- Use F2F & Virtual
- Target Audience All Levels
- Min Participants 3
- Max Participants* 24
- *More delegates? Contact Us
- Computer Required No
- Printer Required No
- Supply Format Hard & Digital Copy
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Northgate says...
"Time Trial! makes serious points and generates good energy levels. Participants get caught up in this realistic scenario that mirrors the day-to-day workplace."
- How to prioritise important / urgent / not urgent but important etc
- When to delegate and to whom
- When just to say NO!
- When to hold face-to-face meetings
- When to delegate back
- To avoid diary overload
Ideally suited to:
Illustrating planning and organising competencies. Use it as a hands-on tool on Time Management courses, either as a starter or to reinforce newly-learned theory. Use also as an assessment tool.
Talk to staff in any organisation and there’s usually agreement that there is “too much to do”. But often, it’s simply a matter of being more disciplined and taking a few moments, on a regular basis, to plan the time available.
In this 60-minute activity participants are faced with a stream of emails and ongoing projects.
It’s the start of a new week and the general manager at Cavendish is faced with a lot of ‘things to do’. It’s the perfect time to take a few moments to organise the week ahead:
- to plan the diary
- to prioritise the workload
- to decide where/how to best utilise staff
- to arrange meetings where necessary
- to sometimes just say ‘NO’.
Teams - or individuals - have two forms: Your Diary and Your Action Record, on which they record their responses.
In addition, the emails reveal some organisational problems and at the end of the activity participants are asked what underlying issues they were able to identify.
A scoring system allows teams' time planning skills to be assessed and scored. Teams then have a benchmark for improving their time management skills and productivity in the workplace.
The activity is straightforward to facilitate - full details in the Trainer’s Notes.
Time Trial! has been developed from the original Northgate activity, InBox and has been redesigned, updated and improved.
- Issue emails to teams (or individuals).
- Tell teams they have 60 minutes to complete their task.
- Issue forms: Your Diary and Your Action Record.
- Observe teams (but do not get involved).
- After 10 minutes issue the first of six additional emails - and one more every 10 minutes so that the final email is issued just a moment before the 60 minutes is up.
- At 60 minutes stop the session and move on to the debrief.
- Debrief the activity by leading a discussion to the whole group. Work through the forms, reveal the ‘right answers’ and allow teams to score their forms. They can then compare their decisions - usually provoking a lively discussion and plenty of disagreement. (Remember, the principles of time planning are the issue - rather than exactly the right response to a particular email).
- Summarise the key learning points and announce the winning score. (Performance rating indicator supplied in the Trainer’s Notes.)
- Issue 20 Top Tips handout to take back to the workplace.
Full guidance supplied in the Trainer’s Notes.
Hard & Digital Copy
- ☑️ Hard copy pack supplied
- ☑️ PDFs supplied
Digital Copy
- ☑️ PDFs supplied
Contents
- Trainer’s Notes
- Team Brief
- Sets of Emails
- Handout 1: Your Diary
- Handout 2: Your Action Record
- Handout 3: Top Tips
- Specimen Answers for completed Handouts 1&2
This activity is for face-to-face and virtual classroom use. The digital files are supplied via the Northgate Trainerhub.
Our licence offering is designed to provide exceptional value and flexibility for your organisational training needs.
Upon purchase, each Northgate activity includes a five-year licence for repeat use, with up to a maximum number of delegates per training session. The maximum number of delegates permitted for this activity is 24. This grants you the freedom to use the activity repeatedly, with the specified maximum number of delegates, for five years.
All Learning and Development (L&D) professionals based at the same site (or ‘remote hub’) as you are granted access to these resources, including to the digital files on the Trainerhub via your site-specific Trainer Dashboard, fostering a collaborative spirit within your immediate team.
Should you wish to make this activity available to a wider audience within your organisation, additional licences are required. We understand the varying needs of different organisations and aim to provide flexible options to suit your requirements.
To use with more than 24 or for multiple site licences please contact us for a quote.
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Florencio Jr Padilla, Managing Director, Perky People I have used lots of Northgate activities, including 'The Escape Room', 'Eldorado!', 'Emotional Intelligence', 'The Pyramid Game', and 'Time Trial!'. Northgate activities are challenging, which encourage people to communicate more and work together in solving problems.
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Meghan Davis, Learning & Development Coach, Furniture Village 'Time Trial!' went down a storm! Thanks again for your assistance!
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L&D Advisor, Redrow Homes Ltd 'Time Trial!' has been a useful way to showcase the skills we talk about in our Time Management course at the end of the day. Delegates have really enjoyed using it.
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Sam Holland, Head of L&D, Talarius Ltd I've used 'Time Trial!' (formerly 'InBox'), 'Hotel' and 'Decisions! Decisions!' and all three are very much worth the investment. They bring out fantastic learning objectives, are easy to facilitate and the supporting materials are great; what's most important is they work!
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Paul Rodgers, Training Wisdom Ltd A fun method of enhanced learning. We use 'Time Trial!' (formerly 'InBox') for teamwork training/time management training for Accountancy Trainees. Very interactive and creates an 'air of reality'.
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