Managing Work

AIM is a personal productivity mentoring process. It helps
you achieve more with less effort, a significant spin off is
it reduces stress you experience through information
overload. Mentoring takes place in your office, working with
the day to day issues you face, not in the idealized setting
of a training room. Your mentor's role is to guide you
through the AIM process, helping you to meet the goals you
have set for yourself.

Our quality control follow up helps us to monitor the continued success of AIM. Our consultants' ongoing contact tells us how well people are achieving their contracted goals. Surveys we have conducted with HR and Training, reinforce the 80% figure. In simple terms: 80% of the contracted goals are met. The outstanding 20% are often about issues that are outside regular business problems; though very few people in this category receive no benefit as a result of participating in AIM.

An AIM group is an administrative term for the consultant and HR rather than a working description of what the consultant does. Following an initial briefing session with the group the consultant agrees an individual contract with each member, in private, later, during the 'clearing the decks' drill. Immediately following the briefing session all work is one-on-one.

Per person the cost of AIM is less than many single day training courses. To achieve AIM's high level of involvement at a relatively low cost the programme is built around eight people in an AIM group. Over many 100's of groups we know just how the process works so we are able to offer this deep level of coaching at a known cost and with an unlimited follow up warranty.

The secret of success is a small amount of individually tuned input, repeated often. Follow up visits maintain enthusiasm and stop old working patterns creeping back into play. The AIM consultant's role is to inject the right sort of change for the participants while focusing them onto the next stage. Instead of gradually losing ground, all participants make greater and greater progress.

Time management courses attempt to influence behavior by introducing new techniques and awareness to staff, who then have to return to their normal environment and unaided implement what they have learned. Quickly, the old environment overwhelms their initial enthusiasm and the original ways of working are rapidly re-established.

In contrast, AIM is practical, not theoretical. AIM does three things time management courses cannot. First, AIM's starting point is to actually change the working environment for the participant by clearing the decks. Second, everyone is introduced to one simple idea they practice and perfect in ways that suite their way of working. Third, all AIM participants are individually supported by a skilled and mature consultant to mould a new working environment - at their desk (or in their car or computer).

Good time management is one of AIM's goals, but not its focus. Time management concentrates on time as the manageable unit, aim focuses on how people manage themselves internally. It actually delivers on the promise time management makes. AIM turns quite a number of time management principles completely on their head - fully explaining why - and achieves more with less effort.

Almost anyone will benefit. However, your most senior staff will benefit the most and will result in greater overall benefits. Often the first group includes a person who is seen as the most needy member of the team. AIM has worked successfully with CEOs, executive, directors, managers, engineers, architects, buyers, accounts staff, and sales people, even funeral directors. The job itself is not important because we focus on a common denominator of all jobs - handling information effectively.

AIM helps you to feel better while working hard, and to achieve more with less effort.

AIM is a guided process to help you understand how your brain works with information so you can better organize yourself and your environment to support you. It tackles a fundamental situation we were never designed to face, working with large amounts of rapidly changing information. Simple, easy implemented techniques offload information from your brain, freeing up energy and attention for you to use to better effect.