Time Management Article:

Baker Success Packages for Time Management Drive Skill Retention, Reinforcement and ROI

This is the digital age; the age of email, text messages and instant messaging; the age of Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn; the age of cloud-based technologies, virtual meetings and collaboration with remote team members from around the world. All of these innovations are supposed to help us work faster and smarter. However, in the end all of these innovations serve to drastically increase the amount of work – not to mention the number of distractions – we are expected to deal with every day. These innovations have also created the “myth of multitasking,” creating the expectation that we should all be able to do many things simultaneously. This is a fatal assumption. We are not truly able to do many things at once; we can only hope to become more effective at managing all of our tasks so that we can sort out our priorities, filter out the interruptions, and more efficiently pursue the things that will help us succeed one activity at a time. For this reason, companies are constantly on the look-out for training options that will help their teams manage their time more effectively. The challenge is to find training that will be worth the investment of time and money.

The rule of thumb across the training and skill improvement industry is that the best you can expect from a training event is that participants will retain at best 20% of what they learned. This doesn’t mean there is necessarily anything wrong with the training. No matter how effective the training curriculum might be, without a clear plan for retention and reinforcement, most training participants will gradually gravitate back to the way they were doing things before they attended the workshop. That is why we have developed our proprietary Balanced Performance Improvement (BPI) program that rolls Performance Training, Performance Coaching, and Disciplined Execution into several powerful Success Package options to help professional team members develop “muscle memory” that will help them achieve long-lasting success in creating efficiencies in the way they manage their time and get more done.

These success packages are targeted to address every time management skill gap professionals often struggle with, including how to identify their most important goals, how to align activities to support those goals, how to filter out the most common interruptions and distractions, and how to use important tools and strategies to make the most of every minute. The great news is that since Baker Success Packages are deployed using a multi-platform delivery model that combines classroom, virtual, and self-guided modules, we can configure a Time Management Training Success Package for you to fit any budget and accommodate any delivery schedule.

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