BananaPower

Capital IdeaOctober 29, 2010

Make the most out of you day!

Identify your monkeys by getting control over the timing

and content of what you do!

I must control events, or

events will control me…

John Adams,2nd President

With a partner – compile your list of unexpected “to do” or activities that you did this week.

Get control of what we do

&when we do it.

What is a monkey?

The Monkey Story…

Types of time

Boss imposed timeSystem imposed timeSelf imposed time

Managing your time

Monkeys are not plannedMonkeys don’t end up on the to do listMonkeys can keep you occupied ALL day

The office monkey

What can you do?

In groups of 4-5 –identify one example of a time you needed help in getting rid of a monkey.

Your monkey

What can you do?

Scenarios

Who’s got the monkey?

Who is working for whom?

Getting rid of the monkeys

“How’s it coming?”

(The time consumed in doing this is discretionary for the manager and boss imposed for the subordinate.)

Care and Feeding

Rule Number 1:Monkeys should be fed or shot

Rule Number 2:The monkey population should be kept

below the maximum number the you have time to feed

Rule number 3:Monkeys should be fed by appointment

only.

Rule Number 4:Monkeys should be fed face to face or

by telephone, but never by mail or email.

Rule number 5:Every monkey should have an assigned

“next feeding time” and “degree of initiative.”

Get control of events, in

what we do

&

when we do it.

Keep the Monkeys on the proper shoulders.

Recommend actions – and implement.

For more information

Contact

Kate Woodward Young

kate@notmymonkey.org

www.notmymonkey.org