Absolutely – that’s the Time Discovery. If you love the level of insights you’ve received from your Discovery Report and are ready to work with TimeBeings to execute on your goals, you can level-up to a coaching plan (we’ll just charge you the difference).

If you’d like to take on coaching for just one cycle, that’s fine too. You can cancel or defer your subscription at the end of any cycle if you need some time off.

Your Discovery Report presents how you spent your time during your time diary period, compared to your time expectations and goals (according to your questionnaire responses) and demographic-matched benchmarks. It is objective, fact-focussed and non-judgemental.

Relevant research points are included to provide context and insights. It’s set out to quickly communicate the top practical take-away messages, but also includes detailed analysis with graphs and tables for when you need more detail. References are provided for research sources relevant to your Report. Download a Sample Discovery Report here.

A cycle is the process of testing, coaching and retesting your progress towards our time goals. For fast-growing start-ups, we recommend quarterly cycles, but you may choose (or change) your cycle frequency to suit your needs.

A standalone cycle involves three phases: Test, Grow and Retest. If a participant undertakes continuous cycles (up to 12 months between cycles), there’s no need to repeat the initial Test phase, as progress is compared to the results from the previous Retest phase. Continuous cycles simply repeat the Grow and Retest phases.

Updating your time diary should take you about 10 minutes, twice a day (for a minimum for 7 days).

The TimeBeings approach was developed to be quick and simple, while enabling collection of enough detail to provide powerful insights into your time. For each time increment, you’ll select one of the standard activity categories, and a sub-category for chosen activities.

You’ll track how you spent your time across 24 hours for a minimum of 7 days per cycle. Your activities are tracked as one of 9 standard activities: sleep, exercise, self, family, friends, work, household, volunteering and purposeless.

There are also sub-categories for your work activities: email, internal meetings, external meetings, deep work, shallow work, relationships and professional development. 

You may choose a non-work category to add your own sub-categories to help track your personal goals. For example, you may want to track your different hobbies, forms of exercise, or types of activities you share with your family. 

While TimeBeings is designed to provide holistic time coaching, a participant may opt to track work-related activities only if they prefer. They would still be required to track these activities as they occurred across the day (including outside contracted hours as applicable).

Your time coaching is focused on your individual time challenges and goals in both the work and personal spheres. You’ll discuss strategies informed by your time-tracked data, your preferences and experiences, and TimeBeings’ research. Coaching results in an Action Plan outlining the agreed strategies to try, relevant research references and metrics used to measure progress.

A check-in coaching session is also included to provide any further guidance, accountability or re-direction required to help you test and establish new behaviours.

TimeBeings protects your privacy by:

• • Requiring time tracking by standard activity categorisation (e.g. if you select ‘family’ time, we won’t know whether it was a Zoom with your grandma or a date with your future spouse).
  • Allowing you to record data and progress your goals for work-related activities only (though we recommend a holistic approach). You can make this selection during your baseline questionnaire.
  • Ensuring each individual’s data is only visible to that participant and TimeBeings. It will not be shared without their explicit informed consent.
  • De-personalising and aggregating individual data with a minimum of 4 other participants’ data before sharing or discussing with others. Your boss won’t see your individual data unless you want them to.

For further information, see TimeBeings’ Privacy Policy.