It takes more than an understanding of "time management" to understand why things do and don't happen on time.
While part of Promana's Time Actions assessment deals with those practices, there's more to our relationship with time than you might think.
With the insights gained through completing this assessment, people find they develop a more holistic understanding about exactly how the things they want to do with their time can be in conflict with the things they must use their time for.
In today's fast-paced world, managing the dimension of time has become essential to ensuring productivity and success in so many endeavours. But understanding the delicate balance between expectations placed on us, and our individual preferences, can be a challenge.
Rising to that challenge, the Time Actions assessment explores two sets of behaviours: the first six factors relating to how and why time management creates expectations, and the other six relating to the ways people structure their time, or in other words, their preferences for spending time.
The goal of the assessment is to provide insight into how to optimise productive, efficient, and effective use of time bwithin group situations, and why these attempts often fail due to a conflict between time management practices and personal satisfaction.
Allocate Time
Some people set priorities in advance, and plan how to use time. Others evolve a plan on the fly. Where will you be?
Manage Time
Explores how well you keep time under control, and to what degree you react to events as they happen
Task Time
This factor reveals whether you're more of a task achiever/taskmaster, or whether you tend to spend time working on processes
Process Time
Assesses the degree to which we're following processes and available when needed
Pace
Explores our perception of our impact on the rate at which we're are getting things done
Value
Reports on the end value we believe we get from our use of time
Activity Time
Indicates degree of preference for keeping busy, a key correlator to productivity
Social Time
Signals the degree of tendency to engage in pastimes requiring sociability and extroversion
Habitual Time
Some people function on habit, others take a more spontaneous approach. What about you?
Wasted Time
This factor describes the behaviour of "gaming" other people and groups, regardless of motivation
Withdrawal
The degree of preference for spending time away from others, where thoughts and feelings are private
Interaction
Reports on time spent on openness, trust, intimacy and authenticity, versus playing things "close to the chest"