A 1-Day Hands-On Workshop for Government Employees

Are you struggling to manage an overwhelming situation? Are you wondering which tasks most deserve your attention? Use this guide to pinpoint what’s within your control, prioritize actions, and eliminate unnecessary tasks to enhance your focus and relieve you.

• Idea-generation tactics for problem solving:
  • Effectiveness Map– Get your brain on paper, so you can form ideas for the methods below.
  • Eight Tips– Eight ideas in eight minutes
  • Reverse Engineering– Come up with ways to make the problem worse, then reverse it to get the solution
  • Building Tactic– Generate an idea, then have the person next to you build on it
  • Storyboard– Turn your idea into a sequence of events to understand how it will work in reality
• Clear space by reassessing tasks
• Focus your energy and attention where it counts
• Understand definitions of concern, influence and control before you start.
  • Concern is what you care about but cannot directly change.
  • Control is what you can directly alter.
  • Influence is where you can sway outcomes, though not directly control them.
• Impact Effort Map to prioritize impactful, low-effort actions
  • Draw a map with Impact and Effort on the axes
  • Plot each idea on the graph. Decide how much effort is involved and what the impact will be
  • Discard time-consuming, low-value activities so you can channel your focus and maximize your impact