GTD leadership project

Posted by Daniel Toop on Jan 10, 2012 in Uncategorized | 0 comments

As part of upskilling our DJs we’re currently doing a Getting Things Done workshop and I thought I would put up part of the process here. The idea is to give our crew a understanding of this methodology so that they may use it as a whole or integrate parts into their existing way of doing things. To do this we’re doing a weekly workshop where we read one chapter a week (except for the last week where we’re reading 3 chapters), meeting up weekly to discuss and also going through 1 project over the entire time so that we can put the theoretical knowledge into action and see if it makes a difference. The idea isnt to change everything, just to embrace the core concepts and to give them a taste of doing the whole system in ONE particular area to see what difference it makes to their effectiveness.

I’ve found that everyone that has put at least some of these techniques into action sees a big difference and that is what has them keep using it.

 

Here’s the parts that we’re putting into action for the Project:

inbox

sorting all the old scraps of paper etc

set up calendar on phone

set it up so that it syncs from smart phone to Google Calender etc so their data is backed up and accessable anywhere I recommend this as phones are always with you and the applications are so advanced that it is ludacris carrying around a paper diary)

weekly review

review all of the stuff in their inbox once a week

1 project

Do only one “project” completely as it is meant to be done, this is to stop overwhelm

daily /weekly to-do list on phone or paper

from the weekly review, come up with all the actions for the coming week, anything else can be written down as a list and reviewed at the next weekly review

file for notes –> evernote

a file/archive of stuff that may be useful later, i recommend using Evernote on your phone for as much as possible so that it cuts down on clutter

do weekly review

DO the weekly review

 

This program can be done in 3 months and takes only about 2 hours a week from the participant and about an hour from the leader (as long as they have already read and practiced GTD themselves)