How to overcome the ‘haven’t got time monster’

No matter how skilled and experienced you are, there is one big monster that can stop you meeting deadlines, prevent you realising your potential and create stress and burnout.

It’s the ‘haven’t got time monster’. Time poverty and lack of bandwidth plague our working lives. There’s a lot of truth in the old adage, ‘If you want anything done, ask a busy person’, but often busyness gets confused with business. Your focus is blurred, leaving you dissatisfied with your output and impact and feeling like you’re running on empty.

Bandwidth is your ability and capacity to pay attention, make good decisions and keep to plans. Low bandwidth undermines your ability to solve problems, retain information or think logically. You end up fixating on the problem rather than progressing constructively to achieve your goal.

How to overcome the ‘haven’t got time monster’? By dedicating one hour, from 9-10am on Friday 19 September, to an online workshop with Andy Green FRSA.

Andy is a coach/mentor, lecturer, author and co-founder of social enterprise Grow Social Capital and the Modern Cockney Festival. He believes we are surrounded by opportunities and even runs creativity classes on LondonUnderground to prove it!

Discover:

• 5 strategies for overcoming the ‘haven’t got time monster’;

• 7 key ways to make optimal use of your resources;

• The 5 ‘S’s to improve the quality of your time; and

• Your own ‘Overcoming the time monster’ toolkit to guide your future responses.

The session is free to IEM members. To book a place, email diane.earles@event-managers.institute