This is the presentation created for Capital Idea and their staff related to managing their monkeys.

1. Banana
Power
Capital Idea
October 29, 2010

2. Make the most out of
you day!
Identify your monkeys by
getting control over the timing
and content of what you do!

3. I must control events,
or
events will
control me…
John Adams,
2nd President

4. With a partner – compile
your list of unexpected “to
do” or activities that you
did this week.

5. Get control of
what we do
&
when we do it.

6. What is a monkey?

7. The Monkey Story…

8. Types of time
Boss imposed time
System imposed time
Self imposed time

9. Managing your time
Monkeys are not planned
Monkeys don’t end up on the to
do list
Monkeys can keep you occupied
ALL day

10. The office monkey
What can you do?
In groups of 4-5 –
identify one example of
a time you needed help
in getting rid of a
monkey.

11. Your monkey
What can you do?

12. Scenarios

13. Who’s got the monkey?

14. Who is working for whom?

15. Getting rid of the monkeys

16. “How’s it coming?”
(The time consumed in doing this is
discretionary for the manager and
boss imposed for the subordinate.)

17. Care and Feeding
Rule Number 1:
Monkeys should be fed or shot

18. Rule Number 2:
The monkey population should be kept
below the maximum number the you
have time to feed

19. Rule number 3:
Monkeys should be fed by appointment
only.

20. Rule Number 4:
Monkeys should be fed face to face or
by telephone, but never by mail or
email.

21. Rule number 5:
Every monkey should have an assigned
“next feeding time” and “degree of
initiative.”

22. Get control of events, in
what we do
&
when we do it.

23. Keep the Monkeys on the proper
shoulders.
Recommend actions – and implement.

24. For more information
Contact
Kate Woodward Young
kate@notmymonkey.org
www.notmymonkey.org