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5 Things You Can Do When You’re Offline
I am writing this blog post whilst I am travelling from Amsterdam to Minneapolis. That means that I will be offline for about 8 hours. 8 hours of uninterrupted bliss. As you might know from our Time Management Training – time management doesn’t really exist, we need to talk about attention management instead. And what better…
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Leading In Uncertain Times
In ‘How to be a Productivity NInja’, Think Productive’s answer to time management training, we find that most stress at work comes from uncertainty: unanswered questions, unclear direction, changing expectations and conflicting priorities. In our workshop, we give people the tools to increase clarity and reduce uncertainty – but not all uncertainty can be eliminated.…
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Building Your Team’s Resilience
When you’re knocked off a horse, you’re often encouraged to get back up. In the office, if you lose a job or a client, or you fail in any other way, you’re told to keep going. Try again, and never give up. This is the definition of resilience: overcoming and adapting, despite stressful — even traumatic…
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Building Resilience
Life isn’t always a smooth ride. Regardless of circumstance, everybody comes up against problems at some point. Time management training can help if you’re feeling overwhelmed by too much at once, but what if things have just gone wrong, and it’s something beyond your control? Perhaps you’ve been passed over for promotion, or lost your…
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Best Productivity Hacks of 2017
We’ve almost reached the end of the year and as much as we encourage you to plan ahead for 2018, don’t forget that part of the Productivity Ninja skills, is also to look back on our performance throughout the past year. We’ve shared lots of top notch productivity and time management training tips with you…
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10 Reasons Why a Wellness Program Is Good for Your Employees
Employee well-being is monumental to the success of any business. Good workplace health helps employees to stay focused and productive throughout each workday. One of the best ways to improve workplace health is through wellness programs. Wellness programs consist of a wide variety of company incentives, corporate events and workshops to support employees’ physical, emotional…
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How to Have a Productive Off-Site Meeting
Effective off-site meetings spur attendees into action, providing an ideal setting to come together on a plan, goal or general strategy. Getting out of the office for a meeting, which is something we always encourage in our facilitation training, is a nice change of pace, offering a more intimate and refreshing experience that can accommodate…
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Creating and Maintaining Your Company Culture When Working Remotely
If everyone on your team worked in the same location, you’d probably install a coffee maker or kitchenette where your workers could catch up on the latest. You’d wave and stop for a chat when you saw each other (which is often), and be sure you asked about each other’s children, pets, hobbies, etc. But…
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How I Stay Productive: Matt Wright
Our Time Management Training outlines various techniques to stress less and achieve more, but we always enjoy talking to Productivity Ninjas and sharing real life examples. This time we sat down with Think Productive Australia‘s very own Matt Wright to get to the bottom of his productivity secrets. Profile Occupation: Principal, facilitator, coach Company: Aurora…
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Creating a Productivity Ninja Culture in the Workplace
The problem is that everyone is ‘busy’. Emails, meetings, ubiquitous connectivity, rapid response, etc. etc. Often, employees are stretched across so many tech platforms and projects – and operating in an air of permanent change and unclarity – that they feel they are getting nowhere. That’s exactly what we’re tackling with our Time Management Training…
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Getting Back on Track After a Bad Month
This month at Think Productive we’ve been having open conversations about being Human, not Superhero, which is one of the theories in our Time Management Training workshops. We all have bad days, bad weeks, even bad months. Sometimes it can feel like everything that can go wrong will go wrong. Whether that’s in your personal…
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Prioritize Taking Care of Yourself
You’re “busy” — that’s a given. Between the extra-long work hours, to the time spent keeping your household afloat, you don’t have many hours, or even minutes, to spare. You run full throttle from the moment you wake up until you finally close your eyes at night. The only problem with your go-go-go mentality is…
