As in any Nexen program, Design Your Time encourages self-awareness and alignment activities that help fill the gaps between who we are, where we are going, and what we do. When alignment occurs, the action comes naturally. With Design Your Time we so present the most recent productivity techniques – based on the mind– but before getting there we look at motivation – driven by emotions. It’s this combination that leads to action.

The program combines coaching elements with Design Thinking concepts. From coaching, we borrow, among others, powerful questions, the importance of listening (to ourselves) and the coaching process lead by a coach; these lead us to increase awareness and to start making changes. From Design Thinking we take “prototyping”: the idea of experimenting – in this case, new behaviors – get quick feedback, review, restart. We look at iterations that add increments of progress.

By the end of the program, the participant will have developed their own, unique approach to time management: new habits, new techniques, to ensure the alignment that keeps motivation and engagement high. They will also have acquired the tools to keep evolving and improve in the longer term – and to think creatively. Eventually, encouraged to experiment, they will be already on their way towards the change process with a new mindset that keeps them on track.

As in every coaching program, the time between sessions is key: participants are informed from the beginning that the moments together are just the starting point. The real work comes next when they reflect, implement change, review,… and this happens between sessions!

These are the core elements that make our program unique and allow us to use an ambitious slogan:

Design Your Time – Innovate your life!

DESIGN YOUR TIME FOR YOU

This is our most personal Design Your Time format: it is a coaching program where the coachee introduces deep change and transformation in his or her life, starting with how he or she spend time. It is powerful and leads to exploration of motivation, passions, emotions and the challenge of limiting beliefs and constraints. Our coach uses creativity techniques, like the LEGO Serious Play method, to encourage the coachee to think differently and go deeper.

Design Your Time is also available as team coaching program, e-learning and virtual or physical classroom.