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Sort the week
Do now, schedule, delegate or drop.
Try it
Takes about 1 minute.
The problem
New managers know the urgent and important grid, but still try to do everything themselves.
Who it's for
New manager and team leader programmes
Before and after
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Before
A typical training
- A slide explaining the grid.
- A worksheet to fill in after the session.
- A recreation of a common training, not a real client's.
After
Redesigned
- Change 1: Real-looking tasks from a busy week to sort.
- Change 2: A wrong box explains why.
- Change 3: Delegate and drop get as much attention as do now.
- Reason for change 1: A familiar model, practised on real-looking tasks instead of explained.
- Reason for change 2: Short feedback on each mistake teaches the reasoning.
- Reason for change 3: Practising delegation is the hard part for new managers.
In person
Using this in a workshop
In a manager workshop, each person sorts the tasks, then pairs explain any differences. Afterwards, managers sort their own real week with the same grid.
How we'd build this for you
Sort it, with a reason for every wrong move
This activity is one example of a pattern that works in almost any subject. Here's how the same idea could look in yours.
- NursingTriage patients by how urgently they need care.
- Customer serviceRoute incoming complaints to the right team.
- BiologyClassify organisms by the features they share.
- ComplianceSort information into public, internal and confidential.
- Project managementSort risks by how likely they are and how much they would hurt.
We build it with your subject experts and your own examples, for your workshops and your learning platform. Every piece works on phones, by keyboard and with screen readers.
Free to use
Use it in your teaching
Add this activity to your own course or training, free, with credit to ApexID.
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