WHAT OUR CLIENTS ARE SAYING

"The WorkLean Architecture and work Process reduced the time I lost to administrative issues, and enabled me to spend more time with patients."

- Lisa M. Goldfarb, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor
NYU School of Medicine

FROM LEADERS WE ADMIRE

"To be effective, every knowledge worker. . . needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have small dribs and drabs of time at his disposal will not be sufficient even if the total is an impressive number of hours."

- Peter Drucker
The Effective Executive
1967

Leveling; smoothing out the flow; e.g., doing two performance evaluations a day for 3 weeks, rather than ten a day for three days -- and then needing to take a vacation because you're so burned out.

Overburdening people, process, or equipment; e.g., people working 100 hour weeks for months on end -- come to think of it, like most lawyers and accountants.

Uneveness or variability; e.g., leaving work at the normal time on Thursday, but having to stay at the office till midnight on Friday because the boss finally got around to giving you that project...at 4:30pm.

Waste; activities that your customer doesn't value and doesn't want to pay for; e.g., billing your customer for the really expensive 10am FedEx delivery because you didn't finish the document on time.

CORPORATE EFFICIENCY TRAINING

TimeBack Management is a corporate efficiency training firm specializing in the application of Lean Manufacturing principles to business process. Just as Lean methods reduce waste and improve productivity on an assembly line, TimeBack's WorkLean Program reduces the inefficiencies and waste in business and administrative process - so an accountant will write down fewer hours, an executive can speak with more clients, a salesperson can call one more account - generating incremental revenue for the individual and the organization.

Participant Benefits

Increased productivity
Enhanced planning
Faster turnaround time

Better decision-making
Efficient delegation
Improved project management

TimeBack Management's Training Packages

The WorkLean Program

WorkLean is our flagship efficiency training program. It is conducted over three non-consecutive days, each about 2-4 weeks apart. WorkLean is most commonly conducted with small groups of individuals, but can also be tailored to individual executives.

Implementation is central to the success of WorkLean. Participants spend 75% of their time working side-by-side with the coach to apply the critical components of Architecture, Process, and Planning to their actual workspace and work style.

Architecture: the organizational structure that leads to quick and complete retrieval of information.
Process: the seven key work habits that enable knowledge workers to manage information rapidly and efficiently.
Planning: the roadmap that ensures high-value or critical tasks are being done at the right times.

By working with the coach in their own offices, participants use WorkLean in real time and in actual work situations. This concrete application of the learned principles results in productivity improvements that are sustained over the long-term.

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Workshops

An abbreviated one-day program that addresses the key aspects of the WorkLean Program. Participants learn the conceptual framework of Architecture, Process, and Planning, and receive the appropriate tools, but without the hands-on guidance and customization.

Speeches

1-3 hour speeches highlighting key issues of time management, productivity, and work-life balance.

TimeBack Management clients gain the skills they need to get their work done despite the interruptions of the modern office, and go home with their email inboxes empty, their desks clean, and their minds clear.