A Project Team With Suspect Time Management Skills – What to Do? Francis Wade Framework Consulting
A Project Team With Suspect Time Management Skills – What to Do?
Francis WadeFramework Consulting
Caribbean “Time Management”
• Anthony Hylton case
A Wide Variation in Skills
• “Confirming” a meeting
Not Taught to Assess Time Management
Skills
You Wish…
You
PMP
CAMP PgMP
PMI-RMP
OPM3
Your Reality
???? ????
Who Are These
People?
From… Being a Hapless Victim
To… Having a Strategy to Mitigate Risk and Shape
Behaviour
“Confirming” a Meeting
Generic Gerry
Gerry’s Time Management Profile
• he doesn’t have a time management problem
• better than average• smartphone and tablet• taught himself everything he
knows about time management
• read a few books but they didn’t help
Exercise: What Do You Really
Want to Know about Gerry?
A Matter of Character?
• Habits• Practices• Behaviour
• Laziness• Commitment• Motivation• Smart-ness• Discipline• Culture• Nationality• Race, etc.
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vs.
We Need a Definition
Time cannot be managed
Definition
A time demand is an individual commitment to complete an action in the future.
Time Demands (responsibility)
vs.
How Do You Evaluate Performance?
2 choicesInformal Formal
Checklist
Inbox Health Multitasking Habits
Informal
How Lean is Their Inbox? Zero?
Informal
Multi-Tasking
• BBC graphic or a video clip?
Informal
Checklist
Inbox Health Multitasking Habits What are Some Other Items?
InformalInformal
Claessen’s 5 StylesQuiz:1. What’s their rank order?2. What’s their frequency?
Informal
1.
2.
3. 4.
5.
Style 1
Style 2
Style 3
Style 4
Style 5
Exercise 1: Rank Order them in terms of productivity – lowest first
5.
Rank Ordered – Low to High
Exercise 1: Rank Order them in terms of frequency – lowest first
5.
Frequency31%
17%
13%
17%
23%
Generic Gerry You have
discovered…
Exercise: What do you do?
2 choicesInformal Formal
A Bad OptionFormal
A Better Option
1. Individual self-assessment2. Personal Planning3. Support from a Line-Manager and/or Project Manager
Formal
Assessment Toolsused in
A Sample Profile
Current Distribution – Jamaica / Trinidad
99%
1%0% 0%
You don’t need to stay in the dark
Summary
Insight via Assessment Tools
Mitigate Aggressively
Succeed!
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