Work Overflow

Often how complex your job is, has nothing to do with your title or the number of direct reports you have.

I once was promoted and had the number of direct reports reduced.

What changed was in the earlier role, our group was made up of subject matter experts, and my job was to get their work out into the world. I was dependent on their workflow, and I had it pretty much dialed in. There were busy seasons, but these would ebb, and I had space to recover and prepare.

In my next job, my direct reports were more dependent on my creating opportunities and developing resources. These were multidimensional and I was often juggling projects and many would drift. Every day ended with more than I could complete in a day. As a result I was frequently a bottleneck. I was stressed, chagrined at my drifting projects, and ashamed of being a bottleneck.?

Here's the irony.

The better you get; the more responsibility you get. If you're ambitious, and, if you're reading this, then by definition, you have more important projects and actions than you can accomplish within the 24-hour wall. Maybe your job and personal responsibilities have grown. You're reaching for bigger things. You're doing new things. You want to open up space. You're in transition. In my case, the direction of workflow shifted.?

Maybe all of those things are happening. Congratulations. I hope.?

You’re not alone.

Our Strategy course?is guided by an instructor who understands what it means to be busy and overwhelmed with projects and next actions.?

You address it by engaging the Three-fold Nature of Work:

• Pre-defined work
• Work as it appears
• Defining work

Your instructor will lead you on a path engaging your work in these three distinct categories. Each leans on different components of your trusted systems and requires different habits.?

It's a level up from managing your GTD system. Now it's leveraging that system to engage your surfeit of opportunity.?

Warmly,

CEO of GTD Focus

Francis Sopper