         A popular training activity that enables
     delegates to learn time management skills
                   by practical experience.

Set Your Objective

The most popular exercise in the time management range.

This trainingmatrerial will leave your delegates disgusted with themselves when they find they don't read, that they jump into tasks without thinking, lose all attention to detail and overlook the most obvious points. It's a RIOT! Packed with learning.

Teams have just 40 minutes
Collectively the team represents a manager starting the week with list of EIGHT tasks that need doing. The tasks are described in general terms on a number of Task Sheets – and it’s impossible to complete them until further information is available. Each team has 40 minutes to set their objectives.

This means choosing which of them are the priorities – there’s no time to do them all! The team signs a contract on which ones they will attempt.

They then have a 25 minute time slot to complete.

Setting SMART objectives
Choose too many objectives and you will run out of time. Choose too few and you will under perform. Set Your Objective! is the most powerful exercise for demonstrating the importance of completing work on time in line with the main objective, selecting priorities and setting realistic targets within the time scales.

How often do we choose tasks that we enjoy doing to the detriment of what needs doing?

This exercise is used over and over again by some top UK companies.

Key skill areas:

SMART Objectives
Planning and Prioritising
Delegation
Time management
Agreeing targets
Teamwork

Comments from Users of this Training Exercise

“Set Your Objective! is a great fun, learning activity which creates a lot of 'aha' moments. I have used it successfully
in previous companies."

“We've used Set Your Objective with several groups of mixed level. It's excellent - all groups so far have loved it."

   “As the main part of a half-day training session, with time management and setting clear objectives as the theme,
    Set Your Objective! was well accepted and enjoyed by an experienced team and brought out all the key points that
    I was aiming for."

“I use Set Your Objective! as a time management exercise for all staff - sales, production, credit control, IT,
marketing etc. The best learning points are about people taking on too much. It brings out a lot about people's personalities and shows that under pressure they revert to things they are comfortable with."

   “Used with Middle/Senior Managers for teamwork training Set Your Objective! is powerful and fun - fast and furious.
   The best learning points are: don't bite off more than you can chew, don't just do the things you like and planning
   prevents pressure."

Duration: 1.5 hours

Numbers: Up to 4 teams with 4 to 6 people in a team (for each training activity).

Cost to buy (including a trainer's manual) to facilitate it yourself: £350 + VAT and delivery.

We will also run this training activity for you: please Email:games@elitetraining.co.uk or call +44 (0)1 473 610320

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Elite Training European Limited is a leading UK corporate team building and business games training company. We will be pleased to arrange business simulation games, training activities or team building events anywhere in the UK or Europe.

"On behalf of the team a big thank you to both yourself and Liz for
making our conference such a success as it was.” S. Moore - Lovell Partnerships Ltd

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