Calendar Coaching™
Break Free from Back-to-Back Meetings and Start to Lead
Back-to-back meetings have become a norm in today’s corporate culture. But when you open your calendar each morning, how do you feel? Dejected by that wall of back-to-back meetings … or excited to see a day full of what you really want to do?
Do you see a day ahead of too many meetings and know that these will sap your ability to focus, leave you no free time, no time to do your real work, and only increase your stress? Or do you see a true leader’s calendar–the calendar of someone who is in control of their time and making time to get from good to great.
As a leader, failure to take charge of your calendar is not just a threat to your performance, well-being, and success–it is a serious failure of leadership and is detrimental to your organization.
But it doesn’t have to be that way …
Enter Calendar Coaching™
Calendar Coaching™ is a personalized coaching program for senior leaders that goes straight to the crunch point: your calendar. We sit alongside you, analyze your scheduling practices, and help you to balance meetings and find time for what matters–finally.
Why do we focus on your calendar? Because if something is in your calendar, that’s what you will execute, often on autopilot. If it’s not in your calendar, you’ll never get around to it.
Does this sound familiar …
- You face a wall of back-to-back meetings that leave you no time to think.
- You’re drowning in emails that demand immediate action and destroy your productivity.
- You’re frustrated by the lack of control over your schedule.
- With too many meetings and no breaks in between, you’re losing your ability to focus.
- You don’t have time to do the work that only you can do, that you were hired to do, and that you really love to do.
- Always dealing with the urgent, you’re losing sight of the big picture and strategic goals.
- With no time to anticipate trends or find opportunities to innovate, you risk falling behind.
- You’re chronically fatigued as long days and unproductive meetings hurt your health, happiness, and relationships.
- You’re not getting proper rest or downtime for yourself or quality time with those you love.
Calendar Coaching™ is fast, practical, and targeted.
It helps you:
- Focus on your true priorities.
- Optimize time for impact and value.
- Get rid of time wasters–delegating or eliminating everything that saps your energy.
- Create time between meetings and use this time well.
- Engage others to defend and optimize your time.
- Model and inspire effective time practices for your organization.
- Do more of what only you can do.
Who can benefit?
Calendar Coaching™ is for leaders who fit any one of these profiles:
- Leaders in Turmoil: Senior leaders who are overwhelmed, on the brink of burnout, or are so busy that they are not attending to critical health and personal needs.
- Leaders in Transition: Fast-rising leaders stepping up to a bigger role. Too often leaders in transition jump into new responsibilities without considering how their calendar planning and priorities must change.
- Leaders in Transformation: Senior executives who know they have more to give, but are stuck in the grind of “meeting overload,” having no time to reflect on what really matters or launch their next big dream.
Calendar Coaching: Special Offer
1. Introductory two-hour session to clarify:
- Your real priorities, both personal and professional
- Your stakeholders
- Your day-to-day business demands
2. Comprehensive analysis of your calendar to reveal your patterns and routines.
3. Three x 90-minute coaching sessions via Zoom at fortnightly intervals to:
- Identify the activities or “types of time” that are critical for your success.
- Analyze, eliminate, and delegate the activities that are not essential, strategic, or enjoyable, and free up time for what matters.
- Create the “new rules” that make new choices stick.
4. Monitoring and support between sessions.
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How does Calendar Coaching™ work?
We are a team of executive coaches who have helped hundreds of leaders like you transform their calendars, their work, and their lives.
Calendar Coaching™ is not only about scheduling meetings, appointments, and other tasks.
It is about creating a rhythm and structure that allows you to focus and engage with your most important priorities, while also taking care of your well-being and balance.
Here is the process:
Diagnose
- You are matched with a highly qualified coach whose background means they understand the challenges and opportunities you face in your role.
- We begin with a comprehensive analysis of your calendar to reveal your patterns and routines. This is the baseline from which we measure progress. (You may be shocked to see how you are really spending your time and what you are missing out on.)
Decide
- You work collaboratively with your coach to analyze, eliminate, and delegate the activities that are not essential, strategic, or enjoyable, and free up time for what matters. You learn how to focus on the high-impact and high-value actions that drive success and to avoid the low-priority and low-reward bad ideas and actions that drain your energy.
- You identify and prioritize the activities or “types of time” that are critical for your success. You learn how to align your time with your purpose and passion, to create a fulfilling and meaningful work experience, and to generate better business outcomes.
Implement
- You learn how to say ‘no’ better–communicating your expectations and boundaries clearly and respectfully, while staying focused on the task at hand and handling pushback with grace.
- You involve and empower your executive assistant and other key stakeholders e.g., your Chief of Staff, to support you in protecting and optimizing your new calendar habits. They learn how to apply the same powerful principles and useful techniques that you have learned.
- You learn to model and inspire healthy and effective time practices for all employees in your organization, setting the tone for more productive team meetings and overall better time management. You become a leader who designs helpful deadlines, avoids false urgency, and aligns people with priorities. You create the culture for healthy time management—gaining trust, respect, and loyalty from your team members.
And even more …
Through Calendar Coaching™, you not only improve your work outcomes, but also your personal ones. You can enjoy more quality time with your family and friends, pursue your hobbies and interests, and take care of your health and wellbeing. Break free from back-to-back meetings and start to lead … now.
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