Boost Your Productivity (Face-to-Face) (RTT21OCT24)

Arrivals and registration from 9.15 to 9.30 – an opportunity to set up your workstation

Morning Productivity (9.30 -13.00)

• Planning your productivity goals

• Guided productivity with facilitated breaks

• Review of morning achievements

Lunch

Afternoon Productivity (13.45 -17.00)

• Overcoming limiting beliefs to improve productivity

• Guided productivity with facilitated breaks

• Maintaining motivation and creating good habits

It is essential that you bring your laptops, logins, files, folders and any papers you might need to spend a day focusing on your work away from the hospital. You may also like to bring headphones (especially if you are focusing on e-learning modules). Don’t forget your power cables.

Mandatory: zInternational Medical Graduate, or zSuppoRTT Trainee

This face to face day of protected productivity and anti-procrastination management is designed especially for people who want to get things done but find that life or work gets in the way of progress.

"Actually got work done - near impossible to concentrate/commit from home at the moment so came away feeling like I have actually had a full work day for the first time since I came back to my project from clinical redeployment"

OOP, NHS Trainee Thames Valley, 2020

"Organising my time better has been a game-changer. I cleared a lot of smaller tasks, allowing me to concentrate on the big ones."

OOP, NHS East Midlands, 2023

"I finally took action on tasks I had been procrastinating on, like ironing out a technical issue and finishing a section I had been avoiding for a month."

OOP, NHS East Midlands, 2023

"I overcame my fear and made significant progress on projects I had been avoiding. It's a huge psychological success for me."

OOP, NHS East Midlands, 2022

• Learn the key to staying focused

• Learn how to self-coach during busy times and regain control of your to do list

• Learn how to get lots done in a single day

What you achieve during this course will depend on what you bring to work on. Here are a list of some of the outcomes previous delegates have achieved:

· A plan and structure outline for a project, including identifying relevant approaches for each stage

· An initial draft of a paper

· A project proposal

· All corrections to project document

· Completed a systematic review

· A funded residency application

· A 2nd draft REF output

· The right mindset for research; a paper and presentation started successfully

· A conference presentation framework with images and draft text

· Grant application finalised

· Fellowship application mapped to criteria

· Proof-read an CPD assignment, made adjustments to content and structure, organised references and updated my CPD portfolio!

“Eye opener and empowering. Showing yourself what you're capable of when focused and accountable.”

Clinical Trainee, OOPR, NHS Thames Valley 2021