Need to generate new ideas and solutions? Stuck in old thinking patterns and tedious idea-storming meetings? It may be time to try something different…

Join serial improvisers Think Productive MD, Elena Kerrigan, and The Change Tribe Cofounder David Papa in this Ninja Skills Session. They’ll introduce you to some hand-picked improvisation games to help your team instantly conjure up fresh perspectives, ideas, energy (and fun)!

Additional info:
https://thinkproductive.co.uk/workshops/cracking-the-engagement-puzzle/
https://thinkproductive.co.uk/zoom-fatigue/

Timestamps:

00:00 Hello and Welcome!
02:55 Why Elena Loves Improv
03:42 How Improv Can Help Brainstorming Sessions Be More Inclusive
05:36 How Improv Improves Skills for Connection and Collaboration
07:19 Why David Loves Improv
08:46 About ‘Cracking the Engagement Puzzle’ Workshop
10:57 How Improv Tools Can Improve Engagement Levels
12:51 Improv Tips To Help You Relax
15:03 Yes And... Improv Approach
16:24 The Importance of Creating a Safe Environment
17:15 Some Improv Games for You To Try!

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Date: May 13, 2024

Duration: 18 minutes

Host: United Kingdom

Spoken Language: English

In this short taster session of our full day workshop, we’ll share some of our top tips to help you utilise and connect essential features across a range of Microsoft applications to take control of your attention and mindset. All in human-speak.

Timestamps:
00:00 Hello and Welcome!
01:06 Meet Our Weapon-Savvy Ninja
01:57 How Microsoft Makes Us Feel
04:03 Why Microsoft Can Be Frustrating
06:30 All About Microsoft ‘To Do’ and Second Brains
07:34 Where to Find Your Online Apps
08:22 How to Build a Second Brain in To Do
13:05 Organising To Do by Urgency and Flagged Emails
14:41 How to Send Tasks From Teams to To Do
18:15 How to Send Tasks From Emails to To Do
20:47 Using Polls in Outlook to Cut Down on Email Traffic
22:55 Everything We Cover in the Full Session
24:14 All About Our Public Workshop!
26:44 Setting up a Recurring Task in To Do
29:16 Assigning Colleagues Tasks in To Do
30:04 Linking To Do with Your Calendar
31:00 Viewing More Tasks on Outlook
32:51 Online vs In-Person Session
34:19 Blocking Time Out on Your Calendar
35:25 Emails in To Do
40:35 About Microsoft Planner

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Date: April 24, 2024

Duration: 43 minutes

Host: United Kingdom

Spoken Language: English

Do you wish you were better at influencing others?

Your ability to influence is one of the key human skills needed for success in the workplace, at any stage of your career.

The old style of command and control (just telling people!) is giving way to collaboration, cross-team and partnership working, so effective influence and persuasion is critical.

In this session we will be sharing some of the techniques and strategies from our Leadership workshop “Influencing and Persuading”.

Date: April 24, 2024

Duration: 24 minutes

Host: Australia

Spoken Language: English

Join us and discover the power of our "Microsoft for Productivity Ninjas" workshop.

This month is all about Weapon Savvy! It’s one of our favourite Ninjas to help us decrease our stress and improve our productivity.

Date: February 27, 2024

Duration: 24 minutes

Host: Australia

Spoken Language: English

Join Lee Cottier and Francis Catalan for this Ninja Skills Session, where they'll discuss how to confront your procrastination habit by breaking down the tasks you can't stop putting off into simple, achievable goals.

They will answer questions such as 'why do we procrastinate?' and 'what is a second brain?' so you can learn how to manage your attention for the best results and give yourself space for what matters.

We also share how tech can actually help you focus as long as you have the right digital strategies!

Timestamps:
00:00 Hello and Welcome!
06:52 What is Procrastination?
09:13 Why Do We Procrastinate?
13:05 Using the DUST Tool to Beat Procrastination
16:50 The Procrastination Tangle
17:58 How a Second Brain Can Assist Your Procrastination
20:43 Why You Need to Manage Your Attention
24:50 Why the Pomodoro Technique Works
30:22 The Origins of 'Eat the Frog'
34:13 How to Structure Your Day to Beat Procrastination
36:27 Creating Physical and Digital Stealth
39:19 Using a Weekly Review to Track Your Procrastination Habits
40:34 How to Create Motivation to Beat Procrastination
48:09 Struggling with Perfectionism as a Manager
55:50 Choosing a System for Your Second Brain

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Date: February 8, 2024

Duration: 1 hour

Host: United Kingdom

Spoken Language: English

Join Productivity Ninja, Julie Jones to Kickstart Your 2024.

After what was hopefully a relaxing, resetting holiday season, lets re-group and think (like a Ninja) about our plans for 2024.

Ninja Julie will be sharing some Ninja reminders AND new ideas to help us get in the zone and ready for the year ahead.

Date: January 17, 2024

Duration: 23 minutes

Host: Australia

Spoken Language: English

Join Ninja Julie for 30 mins of fast, fab tips to ensure you finish the year well, so you can wind down and switch off.

We’ll be covering:

The power of doing a brain dump
Boss thinking and the Daily Checklist
Setting up your out of office – now!
Plan for Jan – return to work with some Zen Like Calm
Breathe – help control the lizard brain

Date: December 5, 2023

Duration: 22 minutes

Host: Australia

Spoken Language: English

How much is fear running the show in your team, organisation or business?

If you’ve been in one of our productivity workshops before we may have introduced you to the lizard brain – responsible for much of our procrastination, reluctance to delegate and email rage (like road rage, but with email).

It’s easy to spot fear when it looks like panic, rage or perpetual procrastination.

But it can be much more subtle than that. It can look like strategic silence or quiet quitting. It can look like defensiveness and control-freakery, and it can equally look like perfectionism and flattery.

From the outside, high-functioning fear can look productive, strategic and even high-performing. But from the inside, it can deteriorate our productivity, resilience, innovation and growth – not to mention our trust and psychological safety as a team.

Join Productivity Ninja Grace, author of Struggle, in this webinar to explore high-functioning fear in its various guises, learn how to spot it in yourself – and your team – and what to do about it.

Timestamps:
00:00 Hello and Welcome
01:39 What Does 'High-Functioning Fear' Mean?
02:21 Lizard Brain Explained
04:00 How Fear Can Alter Your Decision Making
06:43 How 'Fight' Mode Can Manifest at Work
09:12 How 'Flight' Mode Can Manifest at Work
09:52 How 'Freeze' Mode Can Manifest at Work
10:58 How 'Fawn' Mode Can Manifest at Work
15:23 Why Black and White Thinking Leads to Lack of Innovation
18:56 Hypervigilance and Firefighting
19:49 How Fear Creates a Lack of Psychological Safety
20:33 Why You Should Name and Acknowledge Fear
22:30 Using Curiosity as a Tool For Combatting Fear
25:22 Why You Should Communicate Safety
28:30 Remembering the Basics to Deal with Stress
30:30 Cultivating Trust and Owning Your Mistakes
33:05 Why It’s Necessary to Slow Down
36:37 More From Think Productive
39:23 Figuring Out Why You’re Procrastinating
41:00 Noticing Fear and How it Helps with Tackling Problems
42:46 How to Make Tedious Tasks More Interesting
44:26 Finding Ways to Motivate Yourself and Others
45:55 Dealing with Imposter Syndrome and Valuing Honesty
48:22 Join Our Monthly Webinars

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Date: October 24, 2023

Duration: 51 minutes

Host: United Kingdom

Spoken Language: English

Do you work with or lead other humans? This webinar is for you.

Productivity Ninja Hayley Watts will share a short taster of our workshop 'Coaching to Empower', with tips & tricks to help you harness your unique coaching style to create a culture of high performance, trust, and safety within your team.

Timestamps
00:00 What Will Be Covered in This Webinar
02:29 How Changing Your Mindset Can Help Empower Others
06:14 Why You Should Empower People You Work With
08:44 Coaching to Empower: The Model
11:15 How to Listen Effectively and Make Someone Feel Heard
16:19 Paraphrasing to Identify the Problem
18:12 Clarifying Their Goal
20:51 Helping Someone to Reach Their Potential
22:54 How to Coach Someone Who Doesn't Know Their Desired Outcome
25:39 How to Help Someone Build Confidence
26:28 Addressing Boredom Within a Role
27:42 Telling Someone You're Coaching Them
29:22 Tips For Coaching Online
30:44 How to Help Someone Step Up in Their Role for Succession Planning
31:57 Tips For Coaching Someone For the First Time
34:23 Tips For Coaching Someone on the Phone
36:48 Takeaway Challenge: Implementing What You've Learned Today
37:56 Coaching to Empower In-House and More From Think Productive

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Date: October 4, 2023

Duration: 41 minutes

Host: United Kingdom

Spoken Language: English