Are you frustrated by seemingly haphazard decisions about when to do things in your daily life and work? Do you want to work smarter and live better by leveraging the hidden power of timing? Our insightful course, "Daniel Pink on the Science of Perfect Timing," developed by Personal Development ProSkills.training in partnership with the Next Big Idea Club, reveals the scientific secrets to optimising your schedule, maximising momentum, and enhancing collaboration.

Based on UNC Business School professor Daniel Pink's acclaimed book, "When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing," this programme is designed as a "when-to guide". Across 9 lessons and 9 pages, complete with graded assessments, you will explore evidence-based strategies from diverse fields like economics, social psychology, chronobiology, and endocrinology, to make smarter, shrewder decisions about the precise moment to act.

You'll discover how timing influences every aspect of your life and learn to apply powerful principles, including:

• Optimising Daily Performance: Uncover the hidden pattern to your days—a predictable cycle of peak, trough, and recovery. Learn to align your tasks with these stages: perform analytic work (requiring vigilance and focus) during your peak (often morning); handle administrative tasks during your trough (when brainpower is lowest); and engage in insight problems or creative work during your recovery (when mood is elevated but vigilance is lower). This strategic alignment can significantly improve your performance and overall well-being.
• Mastering the Perfect Nap: Discover the secret to a productive nap that acts like a "Zamboni for your brain," smoothing out mental fatigue. You'll learn the ideal length of 10 to 20 minutes to avoid sleep inertia (that groggy feeling) and even how to execute a "nappuccino" for an extra energy boost.
• Timing Your Exercise for Maximum Impact: Understand that the best time to exercise depends on your goals. Mornings are ideal for weight loss, habit formation, and an enduring mood boost. Late afternoon and early evening are better for avoiding injury, experiencing less perceived effort, and achieving higher performance in speed, lung function, and hand-eye coordination.
• Leveraging Beginnings (Temporal Landmarks): Explore how specific temporal landmarks—such as a new year, a new month, a Monday, or even a birthday—act as "fresh starts". These milestones trigger a unique form of mental accounting, allowing you to leave past mistakes behind and boost your motivation for behaviour change and goal pursuit.
• Harnessing Midpoints for Motivation: Learn about the "uh-oh effect," where teams often only truly accelerate at the temporal midpoint of a project. This course teaches you to make midpoints visible, use them to "fire yourself up," and even imagine you're "a little behind" to spark a surge in effort and performance.
• Capitalising on Endings to Fuel Performance: Understand that endings energise us, making us "kick a little harder" when a finish line becomes salient. Discover how to use visible endings, interim deadlines, and shorter fuses to motivate yourself and your team, encouraging action and follow-through.
• Improving Group Timing and Collaboration: Learn the three key principles of group synchronization: synchronize to a boss (clear leadership), synchronize to the tribe (shared rituals, language, belonging cues), and synchronize to the heart (activating positive feelings and pro-social acts). These principles foster better collaboration, unison, and overall group well-being.

By applying these evidence-based strategies, you can make smarter "when" decisions, leading to measurable improvements in your performance, productivity, and happiness. As Daniel Pink himself discovered, putting these ideas into practice can transform how you work and live.

Enrol today to unlock the scientific secrets of perfect timing and gain an invaluable competitive edge in both your personal and professional life!