Pomodoro® Solution for Companies

For Small Businesses, Companies and Corporations

How does your team respond to urgent tasks, delays and interruptions? Which criteria define your team’s time schedule? How does your team improve their ability to estimate how long a task will take? Or reduce the effort spent on repetitive tasks?"

The Pomodoro® Technique offers organizations a way to develop a shared set of practices that protects the team from the frequent and aggressive time pressures and transforms these pressures into an opportunity to improve.

The Pomodoro® Technique offers teams a simple way to observe their response towards time and improve their working process.

Improve the quality and speed of your work. Get better organised and stop bleeding money on inefficient processes. You’ll see measurable results in the first week.

Slash costs, boost profits

About the Solution

The Pomodoro® Solution for Companies is a fully customizable productivity programme for employees, team leaders and managers to learn new skills, improve the work process, reorganize and reduce costs, save resources, eliminate waste and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization.

The lack of a time management and project management strategy is an obvious source of increased complexity in an organization. And this has consequences not only on the employees’ work. The whole team can benefit from greater effectiveness by adopting the Pomodoro® Technique.

Your employees will learn new skills, how to improve the work process, reorganize and reduce costs, save resources and eliminate waste. By the end of this programme your organization will have less waste and costs, more motivated people, organized teams, effective plans, reachable goals, and met deadlines.

About the Pomodoro® Technique

Over two million people have already used the Pomodoro® Technique to transform their lives, making them more productive, more focused and even smarter.

This productivity method was created by Francesco Cirillo back in the late 80s as a way to harness the power of focused work and frequent breaks to be more productive. The Pomodoro® Technique enables individuals and teams to reach complex goals in contexts characterized by change and uncertainty.

The Pomodoro® Technique book has been translated into more than 20 languages since its publication.

Solution Info

Delivery Options
Our Pomodoro® Solution for Companies can be offered live online, and when COVID restrictions will allow it also onsite in your company and in-house in our offices.

Who is it for
This programme is ideal for all types and sizes of public and private sector clients from small businesses and companies to major corporations.

Requirements
No previous knowledge is needed. Much passion is required!

Language
At the moment, the solution is offered in English and Italian.

Approach
Pragmatic Your team will learn and apply proven techniques for productivity, time management and decision-making. You’ll see measurable results in the first week.
Tailor-made Our courses and consulting are tailor-made to suit you optimally. They are designed exclusively for your needs and your time frame. After a detailed needs analysis, we select together the appropriate training and consulting modules.
Flexible Do you need flexibility and to learn how to improve the way you work whenever and wherever you want? Do you like working with digital media? We can combine the advantages of onsite sessions in your company with components of online sessions.

The Challenge

How can the Pomodoro® Technique help your organization reach your goals?

The Pomodoro® Technique offers organizations a way to develop a shared set of practices that protects the team from the frequent and aggressive time pressures and transforms these pressures into an opportunity to improve.


Our Solution

“How can you introduce the Pomodoro® Technique in my company?”

Over the years we have discovered how to deal with this question effectively. First, we identify the productivity challenges and define a concrete set of goals that offer most value to your organization. The content of the training and mentoring sessions that will follow is structured around these goals. This programme is fully customized to your needs.

Step 01 Productivity Assessment

To understand your challenges and define concrete goals to reach

The first step to make when you want to improve your productivity is to identify productivity challenges and set concrete goals:
  • You will learn how to identify inefficiencies in your personal and team organization, time management and workflow.
  • We will agree on a concrete set of goals - the things your employees, team leaders and managers will have learned by the end of the Pomodoro® Technique Company Package productivity programme.
Module 01 Needs Analysis
Coaching Pomodoro® Coaching You & Me 2 hours More

This consulting activity can be offered online, onsite in your company, in-house in our offices.

Step 02 The Pomodoro® Time Management Course

For Employees, Team Leaders and Managers

The aim of this time management training programme is to improve the quality and speed of your work, get better organised and actually increase your productivity.
The programme consists of courses and mentoring. At the end of each course, assignments are given to simplify for the participants the application to daily work of what they have learnt. During the mentoring sessions, the participants discuss their experience and make suggestions for improvement.
Applying the Pomodoro® Technique
Course Pomodoro® Time Management Course 15 hours More
Coaching Pomodoro® Coaching You & Me 6 hours More
By the end of this training programme, participants will have learned how to:
  • Reduce the length and number of meetings
  • Handle interruptions
  • Increase motivation by improving the content of work
  • Transform time from being an enemy to being an ally in order to achieve your goals
  • Reduce estimation errors
  • Meet deadlines without time pressure
  • Collect data about how you work
  • Share with your team members the same point of view about what to do
  • Optimise the interaction between team members, which is needed to complete the tasks, create an effective team timetable to reach multiple goals, handle unplanned events, tasks, emergencies and change.
  • Reduce the length and number of meetings
  • Handle interruptions
  • Increase motivation by improving the content of work
  • Transform time from being an enemy to being an ally in order to achieve your goals

Note

A Certificate of Attendance will be given to the participants after having submitted their assignments at the end of this training programme.

Step 03 Product Management Training Programme

For Managers and Team Leaders

The aim of this Project/Product Management training programme is to enable participants organise, simplify, prioritize and reach their goals. Participants will learn how to handle risks, remove bottlenecks, linearize complexity, improve your work process, reorganize and reduce costs, save resources, and eliminate waste.
The programme consists of courses and mentoring. At the end of each course, assignments are given to simplify for participants the application of what has been taught to their daily work. During the mentoring sessions, participants discuss their experience and suggestions for improvement are made.
Module 01
Course The Picnic Method 2,5 hours
Coaching Pomodoro® Coaching You & Me 2 hours More
By the end of this training programme, participants will have learned how to:
  • Reduce the complexity of your goals and the relative uncertainty of reaching them by learning to transform deeply nested hierarchies of tasks into linear task lists
Step 04 Pomodoro® Mentoring

To improve the way you work and increase productivity

As a result of the previous steps:
  • Your employees know how to deal with time management issues
  • Your team leaders and managers know how to organize and set goals in an effective way.
The next step for your organization is to become independent from us: being able to autonomously identify and implement opportunities to improve your work process. We will enable you to:
  • Analyse the data about your work process
  • Identify opportunities for improvement
  • Plan how to introduce more effective practices or workflows
  • We will work with you on applying proven techniques for identifying and overcoming productivity problems and getting more done in less time
At the end of the previous steps, depending on your needs, we can check whether this step is necessary.

Benefits

By applying the Pomodoro® Technique your organization will manage to:

Handle interruptions

No more mistakes due to the lack of concentration.

No more wrong estimates, rework, stress and overtime.

Reduce the length and number of meetings

No more long, exhausting and useless meetings.

Reduce estimation errors
Learn to simplify and organize tasks.

No more wrong estimates on complex, undefined and uncertain tasks.

Improve motivation by improving the content of work
Learn to understand the effort a task will take, reduce the complexity of tasks that need doing, organize your time.

No more lack of confidence, lack of responsibility and lack of trust between team members.

Transform time from being an enemy to being an ally in order to achieve your goals
Take regular breaks, learn to observe yourself and your team and improve your work process.

No more work under pressure.

No more tensions between team members.

No more fear of being accountable.

Meet deadlines without time pressure
Learn to transform a complex goal into a series of simpler goals to be reached and hence increase your motivation, the precision of the estimates and the probability of final success.

No more missed deadlines and costly delays.

Share with your team members the same point of view about what to do

No more doubts about what to do, who has to do what and when something will be done.

Create an effective team timetable to reach multiple goals, handle unplanned events, tasks, emergencies and change

No more bottlenecks and interruptions.

No more frictions between team members.

Reduce the complexity of your goals and relative uncertainty of reaching them
By learning to transform deeply nested hierarchies of tasks into linear task lists: task lists without dangerous bottlenecks and interdependencies between tasks.

No more complex, unmanageable and unreachable goals.

Optimise the interaction between team members needed to complete there tasks
Learn to organize your tasks and goals in a clearer way to avoid communication overflow.

No more thousands of instant messages, emails and calls interrupting your workflow.


Price & Conditions

What does it cost to attend the Pomodoro® Solution for Companies?

Based on your organization’s needs we can either work together for a number of consecutive days or support your effort with weekly or monthly sessions.

STEP 01 Pomodoro® Productivity Assessment
Type Description Length Price*  
Coaching Pomodoro® Coaching You & Me
Individual Pomodoro® Mentoring with Francesco (max 4 people)
2 hours €300 More
 
STEP 02 The Pomodoro® Time Management Course
Type Description Length Price*  
Course Pomodoro® Time Management Course
Online learning: 5 weekly sessions of 2,5-hours each (min 4, max 12 people)
15 hours €500 More
Coaching Pomodoro® Coaching You & Me
Live Online sessions: 4 weekly sessions of 1-hours each (min 4, max 15 people)
6 hours €600 More
 
STEP 03 Product Management Training Programme
Type Description Length Price*  
Course The Picnic Method
Online learning: 1 session of 2,5-hours (max 5 people)
2,5-hours €575
Coaching Pomodoro® Coaching You & Me
Live Online sessions: 1 sessions of 2-hours (max 5 people)
2 hours €600 More

* Price included VAT when applicable

Is your team bigger than 15 people?

We will be pleased to make you an offer tailored to your needs.

Example: Team with 1 manager and 4 employees

Scenario: 7-Week Programme

Example

Description Price*
01 Pomodoro® Productivity Assessment €300
02 The Pomodoro® Time Management Course €3.100
03 Product Management Training Programme €875
Total (8 hours of training + 8 hours of mentoring) €4.275

* Price included VAT when applicable

Example: Team with 2 managers and 12 employees

Scenario: 7-Week Programme

Example

Description Price*
01 Pomodoro® Productivity Assessment €300
02 The Pomodoro® Time Management Course €7.750
03 Product Management Training Programme €1.450
Total €9.500

* Price included VAT when applicable

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Testimonials

Ann Wilson
Ann Wilson

Special Education Teacher, Washington DC Public Schools

If you struggle with time, and with being organized around time, this is the course for you! It will require an investment of time, of leaving yourself open to new ideas, or trying on new habits, but the reward will change your life!


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