Become the manager who’s on top of it all, without the stress.
Be calm and effective. A short online course teaching the lightweight system that works: a weekly reset and one chunky thing a day. Take it self-paced or run it live with us over four weeks.
Next cohort starts on [start_date] · Spots are limited · 30-day money-back guarantee
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A one-month bootcamp to get on top of your workload, without the stress.
Reading about a planning system and running one are different things. So rather than hand you six modules and wish you luck, we tell you what to do each day for a month. You do it on your real work, and we’re there each week to answer whatever has come up.
You add one piece a week, with a module or two each Monday and an hour with us each Wednesday. By the last week you’re running it on your own, with 20 days of finished work behind you
The One-Month Challenge
The next cohort starts on [start_date] · Capped at 10 spots
Course
Six-moudle course
Each module takes about 20 min to complete
Course
Three planning templates
The prioritisation matrix, review checklist and routine card
Live
Four weekly live sessions
An hour every Wednesday with co-founders Sean or Joel
Live
Every session recorded
In case you miss one – or want to rewatch it
Live
Four-week day-by-day plan
Tells you what to watch and what to do, every day
Live
Lifetime access to modules, recordings and templates
Keep the whole library, forever
Total, one-off payment
30-day money-back guarantee
$495
Just want the course? Join the waitlist for the $200 self-paced option
A note from our founders
Nobody falls behind because they’re lazy. They fall behind because their routine either fell apart or never existed.
The best system is the one you’ll stick to
Put 30 managers in one organisation and you’ll get 30 different ways of organising, few of them intentional or effective.
People either overcomplicate the system until maintaining it becomes another job, or they underdo it and carry the work in their heads. Things slip through the gaps, and you walk around with a low-grade sense that you’ve missed something.
Every conscientious manager has more to do than time to do it. It only gets worse with seniority – a chief executive has more to worry about than a first-time manager and exactly the same hours in the week. People usually deal with that in one of two flawed ways:
1
Waiting for the load to pass
This is avoidance dressed up as optimism
2
Working longer hours
This works to a point – and then you run out of hours (and life)
A simple routine doesn’t create more hours in the week. It creates control, which brings the stress down whatever the workload.
This is the routine we developed and now use ourselves, after 30 combined years of finding out what works. We started with David Allen’s Getting Things Done and tested most of the alternatives. And the we stripped it back to two essentials: a weekly matrix and a daily pick. We can’t promise that your work will go away, but you will feel in control, more focussed and less stressed.
– Sean and Joel, Impact Society co-founders
What’s included
Everything you get.
The first three elements come with both the self-paced course and challenge options. The last two come with the one-month challenge only.
Self-paced + Challenge
Six course modules.
Six 20-minute modules, each teaching a single habit. You don’t need a new tool or a clear diary to begin.
Self-paced + Challenge
Three planning templates.
The weekly planning matrix, the weekly review checklist and the one-page routine card. They work on paper or in Word.
Self-paced + Challenge
Lifetime access.
The modules and the templates are yours to keep, along with whatever we add later. If you complete the challenge, you also get every session recording. Nothing to renew
Challenge Only
A one-month bootcamp.
We tell you what to do each day for a month. By the end you’ve done 20 daily picks and three weekly plans, and you’re up and running.
Challenge Only
Weekly live sessions.
An hour every Wednesday with Sean or Joel. We recap that week’s lessons, then take your questions.
All Five, One price
Get the lot for $495.
Four weeks of live sessions and the materials are yours to keep. The next cohort starts [start date [start_date] – spots are limited.
Exactly what happens, week by week.
One or two 20-minute modules each Monday, and an hour-long live session each Wednesday. You take on one new piece a week, and we tell you what to do each day in between. This guides you to adopt the system one piece at a time, with us by your side for each step. A 10-min daily routine is introduced in week 1 and then you build to the full system by week 4, which includes a 30 to 60 minute once per week review on top of the 10-min daily review. With the right structure, that’s all you need to finally feel on top of your work.
The one chunky thing per day habit.
A short daily review to pick the one thing that matters most that day
What’s inside
Modules 1 and 2. Why the week gets away from you, what to do about it and how to pick your one thing
Daily pick
Live session. How to set aside and protect a block of time each day for your one thing. How long you need, how to find it and what to do if someone tries to take it
Daily pick
Daily pick
Scan everything you could do.
A weekly scan that gets every job you could do onto one list, so your daily pick stops coming from memory
What’s inside
Modules 3 and 4. Capturing work as it arrives and a weekly review checklist so nothing is missed. Then compile your first long list
Daily pick, taken from the long list
Live session. How to run a complete scan without any leaks. Where work hides, how to connect the week to your longer-term goals and how to keep the list current as new things come up
Daily pick
Daily pick
Decide what you should do.
Prioritising that long list, so your daily pick lines up with what you’re trying to achieve
What’s inside
Module 5. Sorting the list into four quadrants by what’s important and what’s urgent, and what to do with each of the four groups. Then run the scan again and map the list onto the matrix
Daily pick, taken from the matrix
Live session. How to choose day to day. Working from the important and urgent group where you can, and what to do when your energy or your calendar gets in the way
Daily pick
Daily pick
Make it stick.
You run the entire routine on your own, and we cover what to do when it slips
What’s inside
Module 6. Getting back on track after a bad week and what to do about travel, holidays and months where you get slammed. Then you run the full weekly routine, unaided
Daily pick
Live session. How to keep this running for a year rather than a month. How the four weeks went, what got in the way and what each of you is carrying forward
Daily pick
Daily pick number 20 (and that’s 20 chunky things done in 20 days 🎉)
Coached by two managers who’ve done the job.
We’re not theoretical coaches who studied management from a distance. Between us we’ve spent 30 years running teams and organisations. And this is the routine we use ourselves.
Joel Bailey
Co-founder
Coach, facilitator, former consultant and company director
Joel previously founded a national consulting business, which was acquired by a large multinational company. He is an experienced strategy consultant and facilitator, and company director. Joel’s passion is making a positive impact by helping people, organisations and communities create clarity, so they can thrive and be more fulfilled in their lives.
Sean Craig
Co-founder
Coach, facilitator, former executive manager
Sean is an experienced executive and company director, with expertise in strategy development and execution. His career has spanned early-stage start-ups to billion-dollar companies. Sean’s passion is helping organisations increase their positive impact through good strategy and employee engagement. Sean has founded and worked with organisations across industries including consulting, infrastructure, technology and hospitality.
Learn the routine on your own – or run it with us for four weeks.
It’s the same course either way. The difference is whether you work through it on your own or do it over four weeks with us guiding you on what to do each step of the way.
Standalone course
The course and the templates, yours to keep
$200
One payment · Instant access · Lifetime access
Six modules, 20 minutes each
Includes short videos, written summaries and one new thing per week
Weekly planning matrix template
Objectives, issues, potential tasks and the four quadrants
Weekly review checklist
The fixed list of places to look that makes the system leak-proof
One page routine card
The whole system on a single sheet
No four-week challenge to keep you on track
No live sessions to get your questions answered
30-day money-back guarantee
One-month challenge
The same course, learned by doing it with us over four weeks
$495
One payment · Next cohort starts [start_date] · Limited spaces
Everything in the standalone course
Lifetime access to the six modules and all three templates
The four-week challenge
Learn the system by running it on your own work, one piece a week
A live session every week with Sean or Joel
A recap of that week’s lessons, then live Q&A and group coaching
A fixed start date and a capped cohort
There are limited seats remaing for the next cohort starting [start_date]
Recordings of every live session
Yours to keep, in case you miss a week
Seats are capped to provide space for conversation · 30-day money-back guarantee
Buying for a team or a whole organisation?
For the team that says they have too much on their plate. If you ask 20 managers how they organise their work, you’ll get 20 different answers. And a lot of them won’t be very systematic or effective – and many will be more complicated than they need to be. But if you train them all in the same lightweight system, you’ll give everyone the same framework – and vocabulary – for making sure nothing slips through the cracks and that the most important work gets done, while reducing stress levels across the organisation.
If you’d like to pur your team or organisation through our course, we offer bulk discounts on both the standalone and one-month challenge options. And, if you put 10 or more people through the one-month challenge, we’ll run a private cohort on dates, days and times that work best for your team.
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We’ll send you an outline, a suggested schedule and a fixed quote for the facilitation
Frequently asked questions.
How much of my time will this take?
The course is six modules of about 20 minutes each, so about two hours in total.
Running the routine then takes about 30 to 60 minutes once a week and 10 minutes a day, permanently.
I use paper. Will this work?
Yes. The system was built on paper and still runs that way, and every template comes in a printable version. Nothing here needs an app or a migration.
Should I pay the extra money for the one-month challenge?
It depends on you. If you’ve taught yourself a system before and stuck with it, great – the standalone course will suit you.
If your track record is starting things in January and losing them by March, take the challenge. Completing the six modules is the easy part. Running the system on your own work, with someone answering your questions each week, is what makes it stick.
What if I miss a live session?
Every session is recorded. That said, the live sessions are the reason the challenge costs more, so if you can’t make most of them, buy the course and save the money.
What if I come off the rails after a few months?
You probably will. Almost everyone does. Module six teaches a 10-minute restart that gets you back on track, without starting again from scratch.
We’re after consistency over months and years, not a perfect streak.
How is this different from Getting Things Done?
It started there. Some 30 combined years later, this is what was left once we removed everything that we found unessential.
There are three real differences. It’s much smaller. It’s written for managers rather than knowledge workers in general. And it puts prioritising at the centre, which is the step most systems skip.
Who should not buy this?
If you’re in genuine crisis, whether that’s a restructure, a health issue or an unsafe workload, a planning routine isn’t what you need. Deal with the crisis first.
If you already run a weekly routine you trust, you don’t need this.
It’s also deliberately narrow. We teach a weekly reset and a daily pick, and nothing else. No email management, no meeting load and no productivity philosophy.
Can my employer pay for it?
Usually, yes. Most organisations have a professional development budget and this sits inside it. Ask us for an invoice made out to your employer.
If your organisation would rather buy for a group, volume pricing starts at 10 seats and we run private cohorts. See the section above.
What’s your refund policy?
You get 30 days, no quibbles, the same as everything else we sell. If the routine doesn’t suit you, tell us and we’ll refund you.
Why do you limit the number of seats?
Because a live session with 200 people in it isn’t a session, it’s a webinar. We cap public cohorts at 10 seats so everyone gets time to ask about their own week.
I have more questions, how can I get in touch?
We’d love to hear from you! You can contact us here anytime. We’ll help you with any questions or advice you need on how the workshop might be able to help your organisation or team.
Ready to start?
In four weeks you’ll either have a routine that sticks – or another month of “I’ll get on top of it next week”.
Our lightweight planning system for managers only requires 30 to 60 minutes once a week and 10 minutes a day once implemented.
Next cohort starts [start_date] · 30-day money-back guarantee
Just want the course? Join the waitlist for the $200 self-paced option