The success of critical projects and programs requires the skill, energy, and focus of every
team member. Research shows that when just one or two team members make even small fumbles (miss deadlines, work on the wrong priorities, or forget tasks), team productivity is cut by an average of 24%. On the other hand, teams that have a shared process for managing workflow foster trust, engagement, and efficient execution.
Based on the bestseller by David Allen, Getting Things Done teaches skills that improve focus and productivity while reducing stress and burnout.
GTD teaches skills to help individuals improve focus and productivity and teams to foster trust and efficiency. When used consistently and collectively, they create a “way of working” that help teams produce better results.
Capture every commitment you make, whether to yourself or others.
Identify the very next action you must take to move your commitments towards completion.
Organize your commitments in a trusted system—an “external brain.”
Take action with confidence and focus.
Create safety so you can talk with almost anyone about almost anything.
Get clear on your highest priorities and stay engaged with them through regular reviews.
Crucial Learning research shows that a majority of your workforce (60.6%) rarely does an hour or two of deep, focused work each day without distraction. On the other hand, those who use the GTD skills are empowered to eliminate distractions and capture, clarify and organize incoming requests in a way that enables them to focus on the projects and people that are most important.
Nine of ten GTD® graduates report permanently changing a time-management behavior. They also report that their new skills save them an average of 21 to 40 minutes EACH DAY. One in three graduates say they save at least 41 minutes a day as a result of using their GTD skills.
Using GTD skills, eight out of ten training graduates at MasterControl, a software solutions company, said GTD helped them better process their email inbox. The team also reported a strong
correlation between their new GTD skills and a positive trend in customer feedback.
Crucial Learning research shows that people who use the GTD skills are 55 times less likely to say they start projects that never get finished and 18 times less likely to say they often feel overwhelmed.
Qualtrics, a leader in customer experience, trained new employees in Getting Things Done to help them onboard quickly. One hundred percent of training graduates reported improvement in their ability to hit deadlines and deliver on commitments. And 96% said GTD helped them improve their daily effectiveness or ability to execute and stay on course.
Teams that have a shared process for managing and executing work also foster cultures of trust and engagement. In the absence of productivity fumbles, coworkers trust that requests and commitments will get done. And when the workload is spread evenly across a team of full contributors, your most valuable players are less likely to burn out. The CEO of Menlo Innovations reports that learning the GTD skills not only generated results, but also reduced stress and increased joy in the workplace.
Philosophical and practical, Getting Things Done has long been considered the manual for being productive and effective while staying relaxed with a “mind like water.”
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