Author: Productivity Ninja
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Flexible Working – How to Start the Conversation
Changing Work Pattern is a Challenge At Think Productive North America we are big fans of flexible working, and so are our Time Management Training participants. In fact, according to various studies, 87% of people have reported they are already, or would like to be, working flexibly. However, we still regularly get asked how to…
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4 Productivity Ninja Tips for Commuters
Productivity Tips for Your Commute More and more businesses embrace flexible work arrangements and remote working. However, the commute to and from the office, is still a big part of most peopls’s daily routine. For example, studies show that the average commute in the UK is 54 minutes. Even if we ignore the very common…
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Declutter Your Life
How to De-Clutter Your Life Clutter in any form or shape is the result of a lack of system. That is true whether it’s paper, email, electronic files, binders or books . You’ll know from our productivity training – a Productivity Ninja needs good systems in place. Both in your second brain and beyond. Decluttering…
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The Pomodoro Technique
The Pomodoro Technique is Easy! If you’ve attended our Productivity Training or have read the ‘How to be a Productivity Ninja‘ book, you will have heard of the Pomodoro technique. Whether you’ve heard of it and could do with a reminder, or you’re a complete newbie – we’ve summarized some useful information on how the…
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Chairing Meetings Like a Productivity Ninja
Chairing Meetings Like a Productivity Ninja Depending on your role, you are probably spending 35% – 50% of your time in meetings. Without top-notch meeting skills from both the chair and participants, these meetings will be dreaded and feel like a waste of everyone’s time. Here at Think Productive North America we are big fans…
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The Daily Huddle
The Daily Huddle As you’ll know from our Facilitation Training, we are on a mission to change the way the world thinks about meetings. We want to help improve meeting skills, reduce the number of meetings being held, and make the ones you do attend ridiculously productive. One of those ridiculously productive and valuable meetings,…
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5 Ways to Stay Productive Even if You Don’t Like Your Job
Stay Productive If You Don’t Like Your Job Let’s just put it right out there: a lot of people, or as research shows, around 85% of people, don’t like their jobs. It’s hard to stay productive if you don’t like your job. For some, just getting motivated enough to get out of bed is the biggest…
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How I Stay Productive: Nick Aiello
How I Stay Productive: Nick Aiello In our ‘How I Stay Productive’ interview series, we chat to people who have implemented Productivity Ninja habits and skills in their work and personal life. From time to time we chat to time management training participants, but this time, we’ve had the pleasure to talk to one of Think Productive North America’s…
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How Managers Can Use Scrum to Increase Productivity
Use Scrum to Increase Productivity Within most organizations, the structure is more or less the same: there are a handful of must-do components, all of which are interwoven to create company processes and procedures. But the Scrum method, which is part of an agile working concept, aims to flip that norm on its ear. Instead,…
