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Changing your habits

Since the start of January, Think Productive UK founder Graham Allcott has only been accessing his emails on a Friday.  This is part of a series of productivity experiments throughout 2013. As we reach the end of the month – Graham explores how his email habits have changed. In order to improve your productivity and achieve […]


  • Date 31 January 2013
  • Author Graham Allcott

Be Productive Like a Boss (and a worker)

At our time management workshops, we meet people who are struggling to get their tasks done.  They’re not managing their attention wisely, because they’re not recognising that their job involves 2 types of work. In this post, Think Productive UK founder Graham Allcott explains how some insight into your working can go a long way. […]


  • Date 30 January 2013
  • Author Graham Allcott

Struggling with lists? Download our productivity spreadsheet tool

Matthew Brown is our London-based Ninja – delivering time management workshops with a difference.  In this post he shares a useful spreadsheet tool for sorting out your various to-do lists  As a Productivity Ninja, it is always a source of much rejoicing when workshop attendees get the Aha! moment – when they realise that they […]


  • Date 29 January 2013
  • Author Matthew Brown

Team Productivity – mentoring and partners-in-crime

We often work with teams, who want to find out how to get things done. However, a productive team is not just about getting things done, it’s about improving HOW you do things. In this post we look at a few ways teams can share ideas and experience, to become more effective, together. One of […]


  • Date 24 January 2013
  • Author Graham Allcott

New to freelancing? 5 tips to survive working from home

If you’re new to freelancing, the hardest part can often be working from home.  Here are our 5 tips to make sure you stay focused and get your job done! DISTRACTIONS In theory, working from home is the best way to be sure that you won’t be interrupted and distracted by all the noises and […]


  • Date 21 January 2013
  • Author Graham Allcott

Why teams need managers with zen-like calm

One of the subjects that features in our team productivity training, is the trait of Zen-like calm. This is the ability to remain focused and not be stressed by everything going on around you. In this post we hear why managers need to stay calm, when the going gets tough! If you manage a sales team […]


  • Date 16 January 2013
  • Author Graham Allcott

Rethink Your Email in 3 Steps

210 billion emails are sent every day. How many of those end up on your inbox? Let’s start with the uncomfortable truth about the way that we work. We check for what’s new, we scroll up and down, we check for what’s new, we scroll up and down, we fiddle around creating archive folders, we […]


  • Date 15 January 2013
  • Author Productivity Ninja

Introduce Scarcity for a Balanced Life

How is Think Productive UK founder Graham Allcott getting on with his month-long experiment of only checking email on a Friday? See all of the “experiment” posts here Struggling with your email? Try one of our email workshops – in your office or in a city year you How do you manage your emails? Let […]


  • Date 9 January 2013
  • Author Graham Allcott

How to choose a useful productivity app

You may have had a new gadget for Christmas, or just need some extra help to keep those New Year Resolutions.  Either way, here are some of the things to think about when choosing a new productivity tool. Find out more about personal productivity at our How to be a Productivity Ninja Workshop  Functionality This […]


  • Date 7 January 2013
  • Author Graham Allcott