MBA2068 Guest Teacher – Demir Bentley – How To Plan A Winning Week, Every Week
Jun 13, 2022
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Demir Bentley, a renowned productivity expert who has guided executives towards better effectiveness, shares his insights on planning for success. He reveals strategies to turn your dreaded Sundays into restful ones by investing just 30 minutes a week in proactive planning. Bentley discusses overcoming mental barriers that cause resistance, transforming the way you view planning and productivity. He emphasizes prioritizing meaningful tasks and mastering time management to elevate both work and personal life for a fulfilling week.
The winning week method emphasizes a structured approach to weekly planning, transforming it into an enjoyable experience while enhancing productivity.
By prioritizing tasks based on their time investment return and allowing flexibility, individuals can significantly reduce overwhelm and improve efficiency.
Deep dives
Transforming Productivity with the Winning Week Method
The winning week method is a strategy designed to enhance productivity by effectively planning each week. It emphasizes the importance of believing that one can achieve high productivity while maintaining a work-life balance, countering the common misconception that work success requires sacrificing personal well-being. By implementing this method, individuals have reported significant life changes such as streamlining businesses, launching careers, and achieving personal goals. The method challenges traditional zero-sum thinking, demonstrating that embracing efficiency can lead to reduced working hours and improved outputs.
Five Steps to Winning Your Week
The winning week method consists of five essential steps that create a structured and effective weekly planning framework. Step zero involves removing resistance and altering the perception of planning from a painful task to an enjoyable experience, like visiting a café. The subsequent steps encourage continuous improvement through reflection on past weeks, identifying a single leverage priority, meticulously inspecting the calendar for potential conflicts, and prioritizing tasks that provide the highest return on time investment. The final step merges the planned tasks with designated time slots in the calendar, creating an actionable schedule that promotes execution over mere planning.
The Importance of Accountability and Execution
The ultimate goal of the winning week method is not just to create a plan but to ensure effective execution of that plan throughout the week. This involves recognizing the reality of time constraints and making empowered decisions about which tasks to prioritize and which can be delegated. By allocating specific times for key tasks and maintaining flexibility for unforeseen events, individuals can significantly reduce overwhelm and boost efficiency. Accountability, both to oneself and through potential delegation of tasks, is crucial to keep the momentum going and to achieve desired outcomes without burnout.
If you struggle with getting things done over the course of the week, we have the episode (and the expert) for you.
Demir Bentley is a renowned productivity expert who’s helped executives at major companies to…well, get their sh*t together. The problem, according to Bentley, isn’t a lack of effort or even time. It’s that we need a more active approach to tackling our priorities.
And yes, by applying the strategies Demir shares today, you can finally enjoy your weekends again.
Tune in (and get that notepad ready) as Demir shares a way to invest 30 minutes of your week into strategic planning, with a return of hours. Before your alarm even goes off on Monday, you’ll be set up to be caught up.
You’re just a half hour away from saying goodbye to weekly overwhelm. Click play at the top of this page!