Tag: leadership
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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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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…
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Our Best Books on Management and Leadership
We get asked lots of questions related to Productivity & Time Management in our workshops which we always enjoy answering. We especially liked it when this question was asked by a delegate on one of our Leading Remote Teams online training courses last week. So, our Productivity Ninjas put their heads together and came up with…
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3 Ways To Motivate Your Remote Team
3 Ways To Motivate Your Remote Team How do you motivate a remote team and lead them to feel empowered, autonomous, trusted to work with flexibility and retain the same level of productivity? All of which ultimately feeds into a virtuous circle of higher engagement, motivation, wellbeing and productivity. Many people today are screaming for…
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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.…
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How I Stay Productive: Barbara Green
How I Stay Productive: Barbara Green Next up in our ‘How I Stay Productive’ series, we had the pleasure of interviewing the new President of Think Productive North America, Barbara Green. Barbara talked to us about embracing the 9 Productivity Ninja Characteristics, reducing stress, staying focused and much more. Occupation: President, Think Productive North America…
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Leading In Uncertain Times
Leading In Uncertain Times In the best selling book ‘How to be a Productivity Ninja‘, author Graham Allcott identifies that most stress at work comes from uncertainty: unanswered questions, unclear direction, changing expectations and conflicting priorities. As leaders we have a responsibility to our teams to provide direction and certainty, as far as we can.…
