Scenario – Felicity Fox: What Would You Do?
Felicity Fox wonders how she gets through her shift each day. It seems like a never-ending stream of telephone calls, emails, doctors, nurses, patients and personal crises, day in and day out. Why she thought she could do this job eight months ago is a mystery to Felicity now.
When she decided to go back to work, Felicity thought that a medical environment would provide the necessary job security she was looking for. For one thing, people always need doctors, and both her prior experience working as a receptionist for her small-town doctors’ clinic and the fact that this hospital was only a 15 minute drive from her home, seemed to be logical pointers telling her this would be a great place to work.
However, each day, Felicity leaves with a longer to-do list than when the day began. She is behind in her reports and finds that she must take things home at night and on the weekends to catch up. Then, either she is too tired at night to do the work, or her kids want her to go to their games or to movies on the weekends, and she feels like she is neglecting them if she does her work.
The nurses and doctors, too, are more demanding, ever since her conversation with the head of the unit where she indicated her strong desire to learn and her excitement about the developments in cancer research. This doctor has been giving her more of his research work to create powerpoint presentations from and spending time with her sharing his exciting lab results which could get the hospital major grants from the National Science Foundation and the pharmaceutical companies.
Although Felicity loves the challenges of her job, she cannot help but wonder if she can continues to do it all at this pace.
You are Felicity. What do you do?
Workshop DescriptionSince there are only 168 hours in any given week, more and more people are finding that their most precious commodity is time. Anyone who can be a "timesaver" rather than a "timewaster" is worth his/her weight in gold. Where does your time go? How can you better manage your time? How can you be a "timesaver" for someone like your boss, your spouse or your partner?
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
This 2-hour Lunch ‘n Learn Workshop will teach you:
- how to identify the three biggest timewasters in your day
- how to look for the usual and the creative ways to help eliminate your timewasters and those of your boss, spouse or partner
- how to create an action plan and success measures to demonstrate
the value that being a timesaver can mean to you personally and perhaps
to your family or company
