Your manager has asked for your help today to put together the teams training plan and share it with the broader team as they do not have time to finish it$.$ The plan includes information around the teams objectives and the training needed to meet them. Your manager provides you all the necessary information for you to use to put together the plan.

A few hours later they check on your progress but tell you that unfortunately, you have not created the document in the correct format. This surprises you as you thought you had followed the format of last years plan provided to you. Your manager explains your mistakes and suggests you follow the format more closely. You know this approach will take some time, and you had planned to use the rest of the day to work on a report that is due tomorrow.

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Go through the previous document carefully to make sure you understand the layout and the information required to avoid mistakes when you start again.

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Leave your report until tomorrow so that you can spend your afternoon fixing your work from this morning.

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Immediately start working on the plan again as you have lots to do and refer to the previous document occasionally throughout.

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Acknowledge you will be busier than planned this afternoon and work hard to get through both tasks.

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