Webinar - How to Manage Your Time, Focus and Energy

This event is exclusive to members of The Henley Partnership.

To book please contact your HR or Learning and Development team at your organisation.

Unsure who to contact? Please do not hesitate to contact us at thp@henley.ac.uk

We all have crazy-busy days, trying to stay on top of emails (more than 330 billion are sent every single day), manage curveballs and juggle constant interruptions. It feels like everyone needs a bit of our attention. We switch from one task to another, like a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. We run out of time for actual work. How often are you interrupted every day? How many hours do you spend in meetings each week? No wonder employees say they feel anxious, overwhelmed and frustrated.

This session will help you to clear the path to productivity and take back control of your time.

Productivity isn’t a personal problem, although some of us tend to procrastinate or worry too much about pleasing people. It’s mostly the system we work in, the 24/7 attention economy, that stops us being efficient. Most of us are bogged down in what researchers call ‘Productivity Drag’. This is the chronic friction that compounds to suck up our time and energy. Causes include: over-servicing, excessive collaboration, lack of purpose, competing projects and slow decision-making. We’d never waste any other resource in the way we waste our time.

This session will help you:

• understand productivity drag and how to remove bottlenecks and distractions. You’ll focus on your important tasks and push back professionally on competing priorities
• ring-fence time for vital deep ‘flow’ work, planning and strategic thinking
• address communication issues that create more ‘sand in the system’, especially excessive digital channels, 24/7 connectivity and lack of a robust meeting etiquette. No agenda, no meeting

Suitable for all levels: leaders, managers and everyone who is busy!

Zena Everett is a leadership coach and speaker. Originally a recruitment entrepreneur, she sold her business in 2007 then studied an MSc in Career Management and Coaching. She took further postgraduate qualifications in psychological coaching and leadership with neuroscience (MIT Sloan Business School). She has coached on the Executive MBA Programme at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School and is an Associate faculty member at Henley.

Zena is the author of Mind Flip: Take the Fear out of Your Career and bestselling The Crazy Busy Cure, a winner at the Business Book Awards 2022. She is also a regular speaker on crazy busyness and leadership for the London Business Forum.

*Up to 50 places per member organisation. 'Up to' indicates the maximum number per member organisation. All places are subject to availability at the time of booking.*