creating a q2 culture to get the important things done

Creating a Q2 Culture to Get the

Important Things Done

Julie Wood

Education Program Manager &

Youth Entrepreneur Camp Director

UW-Madison Small Business Development Center

What’s the Gravel in Your Life?

• Introduce yourself to a tablemate

•Share what your gravel is and how it affects getting the important things done

•Switch (2 minutes each)

In Today’s World…

why is it harder than ever to get the important things

done?

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BRAIN ATTACK

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Where are you spending your time?

40%

60 %

urgent adj 1: pressing, compelling; calling for or demanding immediate action; anything characterized by urgency

important adj 1: of much import, carrying with it serious consequences; weighty, momentous, grave, and significant

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What can I do differently?

• Take a minute to review your self-assessment results

• Jot down some of your QIII’s &QIV’s

• Then discuss with your tablemate ways in which you can spend more time in Q2 and less time in the other quadrants.

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Implementing a Q2 Culture

•Educate others on the Time Matrix

•Use the Time Matrix to assign tasks

•Ask Clarifying Questions

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Review

•Discern where you are spending your time

•Clarify your big rocks by role

•Work on creating a Q2 culture

•Weekly and Daily Planning

Action Steps

Jot down the 2 or 3 things you are going to start with and share with

your tablemate (ask them to be your accountability partner ).

Thank you!

Julie Wood

Julie.wood@wisc.edu

263-9675

sbdc.wisc.edu