Miss a Deadline
Avoid the bias pitfalls in order to make more realistic deadline decisions and what steps supervisors and employees can take to better manage their time, emotions, behavior, and quality of work
In the face of an unrealistic deadline
- You feel stressed
- You become overwhelmed or feel anxious
- You can’t make clear decisions or come up with creative solutions
- You would like to learn how to calm your body and your mind
- You would like to learn how to gain composure and control your emotions
Learning Outcomes
This "Just in Time" micro learning solution will enable you to
Learn the three subconscious biases that significantly impact our decision on the timing of deadlines
Reframe how to manage through deadlines and understand the detrimental effects of typical default responses
As supervisors, learn the entire chain of events and corresponding red flags that cut across all stakeholder groups
Provide suggested actions should one of the chain of events go into default or in the wrong direction
Curriculum
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Pre Self-Assessment
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Welcome and Executive Summary
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Introduction – Talk
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What is happening?
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Planning fallacy
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Motivated reasoning
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Optimism bias
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Why are deadlines so stressful?
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Why is it happening?
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What can I do?
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Introduction – Meditation
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Meditation
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Suggested Activities for Employees
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Introduction – Activities to Activate the Parasympathetic Nervous System
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Meditation
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More formal breathing exercises
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Imagery or visualization
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Smile
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Progressive muscle relaxation
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Take a walk
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More formal exercise
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Mantras
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How to Take Action to Meet the Deadline
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About this micro learning solution
- 29 lessons
- Action plan
- Reflection questions
- Printable infographic
Help all parties succeed in meeting deadlines with the best quality of work
I created this micro-learning solution for people just like you...
George Brooks is a well-respected global business leader with deep training in mindfulness and cognitively based compassion training. This experience, along with his extensive business career working with clients such as IBM, Lenovo, Dupont and Siemens, among many others, helps to bridge mindfulness-based science into the business world creating real solutions for real problems at work across the world.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How are your courses different from others?
Our micro-learning solutions, “MindBursts™”, are relevant and quick to implement. By selecting the module suitable to your needs, you have the opportunity to transform yourself - allowing you to regulate your emotions, and change your behavior so you can: perform better, be more creative and optimistic and collaborate more effectively. You will shed old mindsets and change your brain bringing fresh perspective and better results for you, your team and your organization.
Will I really be able to find the time to do this?
Our MindBursts™ are designed to give you maximum impact with minimum time invested. Once you understand what is happening, why it’s happening and what you can do, you are easily able to implement the suggested activities to achieve success. Of course, repeated practice will give the most optimal results but we think you will find this so helpful that you will look forward to putting in some time to make you feel better, shed common workplace anxieties and ultimately perform better.
I tried things like this before and they didn’t work. How is this different?
If you can imagine the difference between a pony and a thoroughbred horse, you’ll start to understand how different our MindBursts™ learning modules are from anything you may have tried before. A mix of our proven learning methodology, ancient contemplative traditions and the backing of neuroscience gives us a winning formula that you can bet on!