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A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A PRODUCTIVITY EXPERT
You know how these posts are supposed to go. It’s usually something like “get up at 5am, drink a lemon water, meditate for half an hour, write my gratitude journal, hit the gym for an hour, come back for a protein-fuelled breakfast”… and on and on with the nauseating hustle porn until midnight. But there’s…
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TIME MANAGEMENT TRAINING FOR BUSY PEOPLE
You’re busy. You have a million and one things on your plate and the list never ends. You’re wondering how you’re going to manage your workload and meet your deadlines. You think about going on a course for time mangement training for busy people to learn how to prioritize. You google ‘Time Management Training’. Maybe…
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You’re so weird, and it’s OK
FIRST SEEN ON GRAHAM ALLCOTT’S WEEKLY NEWSLETTER ‘REV UP FOR THE WEEK’. “If you understood everything I’ve said, you’d be me” – Miles Davis Over the years, I’ve worked with and interviewed some pretty remarkable people. Business owners, high-performing leaders, young people with incredible energy and potential, older people with quiet wisdom and painful experience, Olympic gold…
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Face Up to Stress
Apparently many of us managed a Covid free break this summer. Perhaps you are even coming back from the cottage nicely relaxed after a great summer break? But at the same time feeling that little prickle of anxiety about going back to work and facing a long haul until Christmas? It is wonderful to take…
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Talk “productivity” without pissing people off
It’s not bad to want the best from your employees, but you must first make sure that the system is allowing them to do their best. It is not a simple matter just to raise the topic of productivity without pissing people off. You’ve probably heard it said that people don’t leave jobs – they…
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What Was the Great Resignation?
You’ve probably heard about the Great Resignation. The wave of millions of workers quitting their jobs, leaving employers high and dry just as pandemic restrictions lift. Maybe you saw the signage posted on the front doors of fast-food restaurants, declaring that hours are reduced because nobody wants to work anymore. You probably saw the headlines.…
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Creating the Weekly Review Habit
A weekly review is that thing that keeps you on track as a Productivity Ninja. It’s where you check that your second brain (your sophisticated to-do list) is updated and still serving you well. And where you look forward and back at your commitments to see where you need to follow up or prepare. It’s also…
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How to Rev up on a Monday Morning……..
The idea of Rev Up for the Week is to give you one productive or positive idea for the week ahead. I had a request last week from someone who was struggling to make the transition from home relaxing to home-working on a Monday morning. You know, the actual revving up for the week, at the start of…
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7 Top Tips for Leading Remote Teams
7 Top Tips for Leading Remote Teams One of our newest courses, Leading Remote Teams, is also my favourite. That’s because for a time, a decade or so ago, I led a team spread around the country. Of course, with COVID it is now the norm to lead from a distance. And to have to…
