Many believe that higher education carries an excessive burden of review and audit of progress and quality. For example, the existing culture in U K H E requires institutions to consider their approach to quality and how they deliver their programmes. Courses and teams are required to review how they are developing and whether they are developing in the right way, as well as demonstrating to others that they know what they are doing and why. Benchmarking has been established to clarify what courses and lecturers should provide for their students. However, the question remains about how individuals can review or audit their own professional tasks. Stories abound of academics' stress and overwork, with no time for reflection and constant imperatives to 'get things done yesterday'. The process as described in this chapter shows that staff in academic institutions can benefit themselves and their institutions by stopping to consider their priorities, look at the workload and expectations and reflect on their situations so as generally to be better able to tackle the workload expected of them by their colleagues and managers.