Parking Disc Method™ Team Workshop
Park Your Attention. Make Progress. Together.
A practical, interactive workshop for teams that want to focus their attention, make meaningful progress, and learn from the work as it unfolds.
The Parking Disc Method™ Team Workshop introduces your team to a simple visual method for deciding what deserves attention, choosing how long to give it, working together without unnecessary distraction, and making an intentional decision when the parking ends.
Rather than trying to predict exactly how long work will take, teams learn to make a clear commitment about what they will work on now and how much attention they are willing to give it.
The Parking Disc Method™ Team Workshop is available as a private 3-hour workshop for teams and organizations.
The Workshop
Duration: 3 hours
Format: Live, interactive workshop
Designed for: Teams, leadership groups, project teams, product teams, and other groups doing collaborative knowledge work
Delivery: Virtual or in person
During the workshop, participants don't just hear about the Parking Disc Method. They use it.
Your team will experience the method through a series of exercises and actual team parkings, then reflect on what happened and how the practice could fit into everyday work.
What Your Team Will Learn
Participants will learn how to:
Curb it — choose the work that deserves the team's attention
Zone it — decide how much attention the team is willing to commit
Park it — work together within that commitment
Check it — inspect what happened and intentionally decide what comes next
The workshop also explores how to make work more parkable, establish meaningful exit criteria, choose appropriate Parking Zones, recognize distractions and interruptions, and use each parking as an opportunity to learn.
A Different Way to Think About Time
The Parking Disc Method is not about squeezing more work into the day.
And a Parking Zone is not an estimate.
When a team chooses a Loading Zone or a 30-, 60-, 90-, 120-, or 180-minute Parking Zone, it is not predicting when the work will be finished. The team is deciding:
This is the work we are willing to give our attention to now.
When the parking ends, the team checks what actually happened.
Finish. Continue. Re-park. Refine the work. Wait. Delegate. Escalate. Or decide that the work no longer needs to be done.
Every parking creates information for the next decision.
What Happens During the Workshop
Arrival
We begin by looking at one of the most common challenges in modern work: attention keeps moving.
Participants explore what happens when priorities compete, interruptions accumulate, work remains vague, and teams spend time together without making an explicit commitment about what deserves their attention.
Your First Team Parking
The team experiences the Parking Disc Method rather than simply discussing it.
Together, you choose a piece of work, establish what would make the parking worthwhile, select a Parking Zone, set the disc, and park.
The Four Moves
We explore the four simple moves of the method:
Curb it → Zone it → Park it → Check it
Participants learn what each decision means and why the method separates decisions made before the work from learning that becomes possible once the work begins.
Making Work Parkable
Not every task arrives ready to be parked.
The team practices turning vague, oversized, or unclear work into something that can meaningfully receive attention.
Choosing the Parking Zone
Teams learn to choose a Parking Zone based on the work, the cost of arrival, the desired level of immersion, and the attention they are genuinely willing to commit.
When Parking Ends
The parking ending is not simply a timer going off.
It is a decision point.
The team checks what happened, what was learned, and what should happen next.
Building Your Team Practice
We close by considering how the Parking Disc Method could fit into your team's actual working environment without becoming another complicated process or productivity system.
What Is Included?
Your Team Workshop includes:
One 3-hour live Parking Disc Method™ workshop
Parking Disc Method workshop materials
Team Parking Notes
Parking Zone reference materials
Exercises and facilitated team parkings
Digital materials for continued use after the workshop
Who Is This Workshop For?
The Team Workshop is designed for groups that do work requiring shared attention, judgment, creativity, problem solving, or collaboration.
It can be particularly useful when a team experiences:
too many competing priorities
frequent interruptions
meetings that lack a clear focus
work that is difficult to start
tasks that are too large or vague
constant switching between topics
difficulty deciding when enough progress has been made
uncertainty about what should happen next
You do not need to adopt a new project-management system or change the tools your team already uses.
The Parking Disc Method is designed to work alongside them.
Bring the Parking Disc Method™ to Your Team
The Parking Disc Method™ Team Workshop is offered as a private 3-hour session for teams and organizations.
Tell us a little about your team, what you are working on, and what you would like to get from the workshop. We will follow up to discuss fit, format, timing, and next steps.
Workshop format: Virtual or in person
Duration: 3 hours
Designed for: Teams and groups doing collaborative knowledge work
No commitment is required. We will contact you to discuss your team and determine whether the workshop is a good fit.
About the Parking Disc Method™
The Parking Disc Method™ is a practical method for individuals and teams to deliberately park their attention on one piece of work for a chosen period of time, then inspect what happened and decide what comes next.
It uses the familiar parking-disc metaphor to make an otherwise invisible resource—attention—visible.
Park your attention. Make progress. Together.