Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
- A story about time
- The path to here and now
- 'The Future of Time's central premise
- How 'The Future of Time' will help you and your organization
Part 1: The ticking timebomb
How we're collectively failing to manage time.
- Chapter 1: Time today
How we value and treat time in business today - What knowledge-based businesses value now
- How businesses typically value time
- How we typically think about time at work
- What we mean by collective time management
- How we factor time into our decision-making
- What our typical collective 'time habits' are
- Chapter 2: Time blindness
Why we have developed time 'blindspots' in the workplace - What 'time blindness' is and why we aren't talking about this
- How time is 'baked into' our structures and processes
- We mainly talk about time in terms of the working week & working patterns
- Accepted, non-verbalised norms relating to time
- How technology is helping/hindering
- How time blindness manifests itself
- Chapter 3: Time defects
How to recognise the signs of 'broken' time in your organization - Some verbal and visual indicators
- How time defects affect employees generally
- How they affect individuals
- How we are valuing and measuring time wrongly
- How we are being wasteful with time
- Time defects: steady drip or major time fails?
- What we are rewarding in the way we value and measure time
- Chapter 4: Changing times
What's influencing our wider relationship with time
o Big pressures impacting businesses that relate to time
o Major demographic factors affecting our approach to time
o How climate change is affecting our relationship with time
o Other factors influencing the way we run businesses today
o Social justice movements that are relevant here
o So what? What employers need to be paying attention to
- Chapter 5: Out of time
How 'broken' time is hurting your business and why you need to act now
o The impact of 'broken time' on businesses
o How it is hurting productivity
o How it is impacting diversity and inclusion efforts
o The impact on employee engagement, motivation and retention
o The link to employee wellbeing
o Why this is urgent
Part 2: Time re-worked
Better ways of valuing & managing time.
- Chapter 6: Time reimagined
What the future of time looks like at work
o What the future could look like in broad terms
o How leaders could run businesses differently
o How commercials/financials could be managed
o How people could be managed
o What future working practices could look like
o What a more time-aware organization culture looks like
o Outcomes we would see
- Chapter 7: Time solutions
The positive time practices that enable organizations to flourish - Ways we can be more 'time aware'
- Implications for leaders in their day-to-day choices and action
- How teams can implement more time-aware practices
- Time solutions for different kinds of work
- Interpersonal relationships
- Time-aware commercial practices
- Time solutions that enable better employee wellbeing and more sustainable careers
- Chapter 8: Time and talent
Implications for recruiting, managing and developing people - How we bring people into the organization
- The jobs they do
- Reflecting time-awareness in individual and team goals
- HR, D&I and other workplace policies
- How to build better time-awareness into people management
- Pay and benefits
- Time-aware careers
- Chapter 9: Ahead of time
Organizations that are leading the way in managing time - Proof it's possible to achieve this
- What other organizations are successfully focusing on
- 4 case studies
- Impact of their efforts so far
- What they are learning that will help the reader
Part 3: Time to act
How to re-work time in your organization
- Chapter 10: Taking stock of time
How to diagnose your time defects and get time on the agenda - How to find out what your time defects are
- How to gather evidence and create a burning platform
- How to tell if it's an emergency/how bad it is
- How to get senior buy-in and support for addressing this
- Chapter 11: Time strategies
How to tailor and implement your time solutions successfully - How to tackle it and how long it will take? Some principles
- What you'll need and how much it'll cost
- Where to start, how to prioritise, what order to adopt
- What will help make/accelerate progress
- 3 implementation tools to help avoid reinventing the wheel
- Pitfalls and setbacks to watch out for
- How to assess progress
- Chapter 12: Anchoring time
How to embed new time practices in your work culture - Why embedding matters
- What embedding means - some examples
- Who needs to do what to embed time practices
- Specific embedding actions for productivity
- Specific embedding actions for diversity
- Specific embedding actions for wellbeing
- After that, are we done? (no)
- Chapter 13: Time toolkit (this may move into the Appendix)
Further resources to help you deal with challenges and stay on track - Agendas and/or checklist for business leaders, HR, D& I leaders, team managers, individuals 'What can I do as ...?'
- Ongoing time check-ins
- Ways to share and celebrate your time successes
- Time solutions mini-library (e.g. '100 time solutions')
Conclusion
- A closing story about time
- Hopes for the future
- 'Book on a page' (1 page book summary)
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index
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