Participants valued the possibility of sharing as a team, getting to know each other better and determining how to be more efficient.

It was also important to work on very concrete tools that led to action plans that are easy to implement and that can have a great impact on your work.

It generates a sense of empowerment and of taking back control of your agenda, your day to day life and your life.

We share several lessons learned as formulated by the participants:

– Ask, challenge, ask for context: What is needed, when, what for? To avoid “asking for the sake of asking”

– Forget about multitasking to avoid losing concentration and to better compartmentalize the use of time

– Say no (push back) and be assertive when it is not possible, to avoid generating expectations

– Concept of the time jar and the rocks: what is important and what is urgent

– Calibrate my internal clock and determine at what time of the day I am more productive

– Avoid copying everyone in the mails, asking yourself why copy someone?

After the program, participants want to continue implementing these action plans and best practices, complementing them with other initiatives:

– be more disciplined with time blocks,

– be more assertive in saying no,

– assert yourself and your time,

– improve the educational process in the organization (e.g. respect of busy status).