Highlights
People procrastinate for different reasons, but they can acquire tools to help them keep it under control
Understanding the practical, relational, and physical stakes can help you start off on the right foot
Objectives
- Identifying realistic vs. unrealistic goals
- Enhancing personal efficiency by subduing procrastination tendencies
Learning Tools
- Role plays, simulations, improvisation
- Self-examination, peer/trainer feedback
- Drafting checklists
- Discussion, exchange
- Video clips
Take-aways
- Enhanced ability to define tasks and plan time accordingly
- A step-by-step methodology for overcoming perceived obstacles
- Tools for developing a greater overall sense of self-esteem
Prerequisite
- Highly recommended: The Art of Useful Feedback; Lateral Thinking
Seminar Essentials
The inner workings of procrastination
- Truths and fallacies
- The different forms and shapes
- Perpetrators—from occasional to chronic
- Physical consequences
Getting past the psychological traps
- The paradigms: from fear of failure to addiction to the adrenaline rush
- An honest appraisal of individual habits
- Setting up a reward system
Things you can do to overcome procrastination
- Practicing REC: Recording, Evaluating, and Changing your thinking
- Testing out “self-talk”
- Accepting setbacks and learning to get past them