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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…


  • 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…


  • 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,…


  • Productivity Boosting Checklist for Managers & Leaders

    A Productivity Checklist for Managers and Leaders Hayley, one of our Productivity Ninja is often asked by delegates in our time management workshops how leaders can boost productivity. Like all things that relate to productivity and wellbeing, there isn’t just one answer. No one thing that you can do to help solve the existing problems and challenges.…


  • A Manager’s Role in Team Work-Life Balance

    Your Role in Team Work Life Balance As an employer, it’s important to support your staff and encourage a good work-life balance in your business. As a manager your role in your team work life balance is critical. By offering help such as time management training, you stand a better chance of preventing the effects…


  • Differences Between Busy People and Productive People

    Differences Between Busy People and Productive People The idea that being busy equals being productive is very far-fetched. A person who has a busy schedule is not necessarily productive.  In fact, a productive person, or “Productivity Ninja“, is not the same as a busy one. ‘’Many people see those who rush around chasing errands as…


  • Daily Productivity Ninja Ruthlessness

    Daily Ruthlessness for Productivity Ninjas Ruthlessness, is not something that comes naturally to me. It is the characteristic that I struggle with the most. And I work as a Productivity Ninja! I’ve not nailed it, but I’ve had a go. Daily  ruthlessness is always a struggle, and I know from talking to delegates in our…


  • 5 Ways to Be Ruthless With Your Attention

    Be Ruthless With Your Attention There are only so many hours in the day to accomplish tasks. Both offline and online distractions tend to bombard you at every turn. You try to work around these distractions, but stress and annoyance get the best of you. Time management training can help you bring out your inner…


  • Use Your Office to Work Out

    Use Your Office to Work Out One thing that almost every desk job has in common, is the lack of motion: you show up to your desk in the morning, you plug in your six to ten hours of work, and eventually you leave. If you’re lucky, you might have a standing desk. Day in…