Book Launch: Team - GTD With Others

A live and interactive seminar

An in-person workshop at

18 Clerkenwell Green Penthouse A & B London EC1R 0DP United Kingdom

Your journey to healthy high performance starts here.

You’ve got healthy high performance in your hands - now let’s make it sharper.

Go deeper and take healthy high performance to any horizon.

Date:

May 23, 2024

Where:

18 Clerkenwell Green Penthouse A & B London EC1R 0DP United Kingdom

London

Time:

19:00

BST

Materials:

About the course

Imagine if you could work with greater energy and focus, navigate competing demands with resounding confidence, and take time to rest without second guessing yourself. 

That’s what the Getting Things Done® (GTD) methodology has done for so many people.

This is a one-day course that offers an entry-way into the methodology, with expert guidance, interaction, and recommendations for implementation. The practical techniques you’ll learn will be immediately actionable, so you can see the impact of the programme within days.

You’ve implemented the core ideas from Getting Things Done® (GTD), and you’ve seen some healthy high performance in your life as a result. In this Projects and Priorities seminar, you’ll take your GTD system and practices to the next phase.

This is a one-day course that gives you a chance to assess your progress, sharpen your thinking, and hone your GTD system so that it provides a more complete overview of your world.

The level 3 Getting Things Done® course offers guidance in becoming even more adaptable in how and where you use GTD principles. 

This is a one-day course that provides practical techniques to help you align with and execute on any desired outcome across both work and life. The goal is for you to be able to create space for creativity, informed intuition, and capacity in any context.

Imagine if you could work with greater energy and focus, navigate competing demands with resounding confidence, and take time to rest without second guessing yourself. 

That’s what the Getting Things Done® (GTD) methodology has done for so many people.

This is a one-day course that offers an entry-way into the methodology, with expert guidance, interaction, and recommendations for implementation. The practical techniques you’ll learn will be immediately actionable, so you can see the impact of the programme within days.

“The GTD-seminar was one of the few really helpful workshops I have been to in my career.”

- Matthias Hinze, Lufthansa Group, Senior Manager Ground Operations Intercontinental

“As a result of GTD, I’m faster, less stressed, more able to make decisions and happier at work and in life.”

– Spencer Hanlon, COO, Airplus

“I am already feeling an increased sense of perspective and calm this week.”

– Tracey, Level 1 Seminar Attendee, Edinburgh

“The course was engaging, interesting, thought provoking and exceeded my expectations.”

– L.B., Level 2 Seminar Attendee

This was probably the most useful training I've ever received. Thank you!”

– Matthias Abraham, Senior Software Engineer, Amazon Web Services

“Thank you again for the Level 2 seminar this July in London. The real life changing value it gives only really becomes apparent once you get home and implement it.”

– Eva Engel-Wolf, Getting Things Organised

“A great balance between listening and doing, and exactly the focus I was hoping for.”

– David Orr, Level 3 Virtual Open-enrolment Course Attendee

“My relationships have flourished as I’m able to be much more present in each interaction.”

– Jimmy Barber, COO, Financial Services Compensation Scheme

“GTD turned out to be a ‘life-saver’ for me professionally, and after using it consistently for the past five years I still feel it is one of the most effective techniques to achieve my personal and professional goals.”

– Livia Freudl, Head of HR, Siemens

Who's it for?

This Level 1 course is an essential starting point for anyone who wants to see healthy high performance in their professional and personal lives. It’s also a great way for leaders to sample what we can offer the rest of their organisation. You must be based in the UK or Ireland to attend this course.

This seminar is for anyone who has got an initial grounding in GTD and is looking to review and refine their approach, while folding in additional principles to create more healthy momentum in their lives. 

This is for anyone who has learned level 2 GTD principles, seen the results, and is now ready to get more strategic about healthy high performance. 

If you're a team leader, our events are a way to dip your toe into a healthy high performance methodology – and see how you can achieve what matters without compromising your team's wellbeing. If you're already a fan of GTD, come along to keep learning alongside others in corporate roles, ask questions of experts, and find new approaches to make healthy high performance the norm.

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Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites to this course. You might or might not have read the Getting Things Done book by David Allen – either way, you stand to benefit massively.

Prerequisites

You will need to have attended a level 1 GTD course or completed one-to-one GTD coaching. You must have built and used a GTD system (using any toolset).

Prerequisites

You will need to have attended a level 2 GTD course or completed one-to-one GTD coaching. You must have built and used a GTD system (using any toolset).

Course Outline

This level 1 course will cover the following:

  • The Fundamental Process – an overview of how we can create better conditions for our minds to work in.

  • The Five Phases of Workflow – a model for reviewing and optimising the way we work.

  • Implementing Getting Things Done – guidance for putting everything into practice.

On completion of this course, you'll have all the components you need to establish your own personalised GTD system. We recommend dedicating a day to set your GTD system up soon after the event concludes. This will ensure that the insights and strategies are fresh in your mind, enabling you to kickstart your healthy high performance journey without losing momentum.

More About GTD

Course Outline

In addition to going deeper on the principles covered in Level 1, this course will:

  • Make use of advanced GTD models to optimise project planning

  • Identify and develop higher-horizon thinking to help people shift from a reactive to proactive stance

  • Give people the tools to take more initiative – turning problems and opportunities into projects

  • Ensure people’s priorities are aligned with the right Areas of Focus

Course Outline

The course will teach you to:

  • Use the six Horizons of Focus® and outcome-thinking to find greater levels of clarity, focus, and productivity.

  • Bring alignment to their purpose, strategy and the next action.

  • See the best things to see, at any time, from the best perspective.

  • Build systemic support for creativity, innovation, and fulfilling engagements.

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Frequently asked questions

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Where is NAA based?

Next Action Associates is based in the UK and Ireland. Many of our in-person events are held in London, but we can come on-site with your organisation for training and coaching. We also offer virtual coaching, organisational training, and events. 

 Is NAA’s training relevant for me?

NAA works with people who are looking for healthy high performance. It’s not necessarily remedial – it can be for people who have already achieved a lot professionally but who simply want to achieve more without losing their spark along the way. 

We’ve worked with some of the brightest, busiest and most ambitious people from all kinds of backgrounds and industries, from senior executives, department heads and their teams to leading surgeons, journalists, business owners and government officials. 

Is NAA’s training relevant for my team?

Our training applies to knowledge workers of all types and stripes, within organisations large and small.

Since our training is designed to make high performance more sustainable over the long term, it’s often adopted as part of high-potential and partner-track programmes.

Large organisations and multinationals regularly bring us in to work with their leadership teams, or to help the entire company step into healthy high performance right down to the level of individual contributors.

Which of NAA’s services is right for my organisation?

For organisations we broadly offer three options, which are often combined for maximum effectiveness:

Organisational consulting
Organisational training
One-to-one coaching

You can also send members of your organisation to our open-enrollment courses if you would like to sample our work. A number of senior leaders and executives have attended our seminars themselves before enthusiastically recommending it for their entire department or organisation. 

Which of NAA’s services is best for me as an individual?

For individuals we offer two main options:

Open-enrollment courses
One-to-one coaching 

You are also welcome to join one of our community’s events if you would like to dip your toes into the water before committing to anything. 

What makes GTD® different from other methodologies for healthy high performance?

The Getting Things Done® methodology (GTD), created by David Allen, proposes a fundamentally different approach to healthy high performance. 

It’s a self management system that involves dealing effectively with all of the things we have to do and want to do, both personally and professionally.

GTD helps us to capture new inputs, decide what (if anything) we want to do about them, organise the results into a system we can review, and make intuitive and tactical choices about what to do at any given point in time.

Have there been any academic studies on the effectiveness of GTD?

Getting Things Done: The Science Behind Stress-Free Productivity by Francis Heylighen and Clément Vidal goes into greater detail on the science behind GTD and why it works.

How is attending a GTD seminar better than just reading the GTD book?

Many people who come to the seminar have already read the book. They find that while the book is great for getting an overview, our seminars help them to ground the GTD theory in their experience and practice.

Take it from one of our participants:

“I was already familiar with GTD through the book, but just reading the book was not enough to help me get the system fully integrated into my life.

“What the seminar did was to help me identify - and change - my work habits so that I can consistently work more efficiently and effectively… GTD changed the way I work, and that has changed my life.”

– Gillian Saunders, Director of Quality Management, Siemens

Do others teach GTD in the UK?

We offer the only officially-licensed GTD seminar and coaching programmes in the UK– Next Action Associates are the only officially-certified UK partner of the David Allen Company. 

I’ve completed a course with Next Action Associates – what’s next?

There are many options. If you’ve attended a level 1 course, then levels 2<link to Level 2 course> and 3<link to level 3 course> beckon. Otherwise you might want to introduce GTD to others in your organisation,<link to organisational training page> or you might want to personally keep up with our community and events.<link to community page>

The fundamentals of healthy high performance and GTD – both in understanding and execution – are something to be continually refined over the course of one’s life and career. For this reason, GTD practitioners often find value in re-visiting the book, public seminars, and one-to-one coaching at various stages of their life. 

You can also check out our YouTube channel or subscribe to our podcast for quick doses of inspiration.

How can I connect with other GTD practitioners in the UK and Ireland?

Check out our community and events<link to community page> if you want to stay connected with other people who are going after healthy high performance in the UK and Ireland. 

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of Fortune 100 have had some form of GTD training
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past participants would recommend us

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