A week always fills up; the real question is what goes in first.
The answer comes from a famous experiment with a jar, big rocks, gravel, and sand: make room first for what matters. This module turns it into a method: three priorities at the top of your calendar, three per quarter for the team, and countless small tasks handed to AI. It adds a question few managers ask: “And you, what drives you?”
~20 min at your own paceKey skill: Setting PrioritiesAvailable in FR + ENNo prerequisites
What you’ll take away
- the Monday morning ritual: five minutes to schedule your three big rocks
- the anti-sand filter: checking whether a request serves one of your three projects
- a way to bring out everyone’s big rocks in one-on-ones, for managers and team members alike
Who it’s for
Anyone who wants their real priorities to show up in their calendar, and managers who align their team’s priorities.
Learning objectives
- Draw the real lesson from the big rocks experiment: what you don’t put in first will never fit in later.
- Block your three big rocks in your calendar each week before anything else, then protect them against requests.
- Clarify the quarter’s three rocks as a team, and hand part of the sand to AI: repetitive tasks, reports, first drafts.
- Bring organizational and individual priorities together through regular one-on-ones between managers and team members.
How does this module work?
The steps of the Adaptive module.
- Self-assessmentOn nine dimensions, to gauge current habits and guide the practice.
- Expert videoA ~10 min video with three pauses for reflection.
- Practice scenariosThe first two scenarios chosen from the self-assessment, then sixteen more, optional. Every answer gets feedback: what it leads to, and one way to improve.
- Dated commitmentOne action to try, written by the learner or chosen from the suggestions.
- Memo to downloadKey takeaways, questions, commitment, personal notes, and checklists.
Duration: ~20 min. Excluding bonus practice scenarios and optional in-depth content.
