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Time Management
Manage meeting and learning time with large visible clocks that keep everyone on track! Trainers Warehouse has specially selected our favorite office timers that are easy-to-see and easy-to-use. Learning timers might seem like a disconnect for office use, but they can help live and online meetings or training participants to stay on track and use time wisely. Help groups understand the value of time with a Mayo Jar demonstration or quick ring of a meeting chime.
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This is the classiest way we know to bring your people back to their seats. These three-toned chimes are affordable, pleasant, and friendly. Ideal for small classrooms. Complete with mallet. Wood and metal construction. 7.25" x 3.5" x 1.25"
The tones are 3 separate and distinct sounds. Please see and listen to the video to hear the tones.
View video for great ideas on how to use CHIMES in meetings!
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The Mayo Jar is a powerful lesson in time management that we've made easy to do yourself in your classroom. Includes all you need -- except the beer!
The Parable
As the story goes A professor stands before his philosophy class with an empty jar, fills it to the top with golf balls and asks if its full. The group says "yes."
Yet he still manages to fill the jar with more stuff -- first pebbles, then sand, even a beer or two!
The golf balls represent the important things–your family, your children, your health, your friends, your favorite passions–things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.
The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, your car.
The sand is everything else; the small stuff.
If you put the sand into the jar first, there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you.
The Jar Activity
Set up: Divide the group into teams. Give each team a smaller jar (not provided) and an assortment of materials: golf balls, rocks, stones, gravel, sand, or anything else of your choosing. Be sure each group has exactly the same amounts of materials so you can determine which group was able to fit the most into their jar.
Explain: Challenge groups to fill their jar with as much of their materials possible.
Contents
Plastic Mayo jar is 7" tall, 5" diam. Includes pebbles, sand and golf balls, packed separately. Comes in a convenient see-through vinyl drawstring storage bag for convenient transport.
Weight is 7.5 lbs.
Time Trial is a SHORT, sharp activity to deliver KEY LESSONS on time management supplied digitally, for use in virtual or face-to-face training sessions. In this 60-minute activity participants are faced with a stream of emails and ongoing projects.
THE ACTIVITY
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:
- Plan the diary
- Prioritize the workload
- Decide where/how to best utilise staff
- Arrange meetings where necessary
- Learn 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 are in the Trainer’s Notes.
TRAINER'S ROLE
1. Issue emails to teams (or individuals).
2. Tell teams they have 60 minutes to complete their task.
3. Issue forms: Your Diary and Your Action Record.
4. Observe teams (but do not get involved).
5. 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.
6. At 60 minutes stop the session and move on to the debrief.
7. 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).
8. Summarize the key learning points and announce the winning score. (Performance rating indicator supplied in the Trainer’s Notes.)
9. Issue 20 Top Tips handout to take back to the workplace.
Full guidance, discussion points answers are supplied in the Trainer’s Notes.
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 Northgate training activity is delivered through an online portal and comes with a five-year licence for repeat use with up to 24 participants per training session within the license-holding organization.
Time Trial Online is designed by Northgate Training Activities
This is a downloadable product. You will receive emailed instructions on how to download the software. It may take 1-3 days to receive this email, depending on the day of the week that the order is placed.
Put an end to procrastination with these clever wooden nickels, best known as TUITs. You might not even know what a TUIT is until you actually receive "a round TUIT." And when you do, it will be the perfect reminder not to put off imporant tasks.
There's surely no better way to say "Don't procrastinate! Do it NOW" than with a round "TUIT" token.
FEATURES
- TUITs are packed in sets of 24
- Hand-polished wooden nickels measure 1.5" diameter
- TUITs are laser engraved and environmentally friendly!
- Front side: TUIT
- Back side: DO IT! Don't Wait 'Til You Get "A Round TUIT"...
USING TUITs?
- With each passing day, students forget a little bit of what they learned. TUITs offer a gentle reminder to try techniques right away.
- Introduce TUITs at the end of a learning event and ask, "What might prevent you from getting around to applying your new skills?"
- Have each participant identify an action item, a "to do," or an "IT," which they pledge not to put off.
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Trainers Warehouse offers tons of tools to make learning effective, fun, and memorable. Try our our range of Debrief and Review Tools, so that time spent in training doesn't go to waste.
Every product we sell comes with a 100% satisfaction guarantee. If you aren't satisfied with your order, neither are we!
Stop procrastinating! "TUITs" are a great reminder not to wait until you get "around to it" or "a round TUIT."
There's surely no better way to say "Don't procrastinate! Do it NOW" than with these sleek wooden tokens that say "TUIT" on one side, and "Don't Wait" on the other.
FEATURES
- TUITs are packed in sets of 24
- Coated wooden nickels measure 1.5" diameter
- Front side: TUIT
- Back side: DO IT! Don't Wait 'Til You Get "A Round TUIT"...
USING TUITs?
- With each passing day, students forget a little bit of what they learned. TUITs offer a gentle reminder to try techniques right away.
- Introduce TUITs at the end of a learning event and ask, "What might prevent you from getting around to applying your new skills?"
- Have each participant identify an action item, a "to do," or an "IT," which they pledge not to put off.
Trainers Warehouse offers tons of tools to make learning effective, fun, and memorable. Try our our range of Debrief and Review Tools, so that time spent in training doesn't go to waste.
Every product we sell comes with a 100% satisfaction guarantee. If you aren't satisfied with your order, neither are we!
