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What I learnt during my Project Management Workshop
Since joining Think Productive a month ago today (happy anniversary TP!), I’ve had the pleasure of attending lots of our workshops. It’s been the best way to dive into my new role as Learning Success Manager, where I get to support our superstar clients plan learning programmes for their teams. After 19 years as a…
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You are so weird (and it’s OK)
FIRST SEEN ON GRAHAM ALLCOTT’S WEEKLY NEWSLETTER ‘REV UP FOR THE WEEK’. “If you understood everything I’ve said, you’d be me” – Miles Davis Over the years, I’ve worked with and interviewed some pretty remarkable people. Business owners, high-performing leaders, young people with incredible energy and potential, older people with quiet wisdom and painful experience, Olympic gold…
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Time Management Training for Busy People
You’re busy. You have a million and one things on your plate and the list never ends. You’re wondering how you’re going to manage your workload and meet your deadlines. You think about going on a course or workshop to learn how to prioritize. You google ‘Time Management Training’. Maybe that’s what you need? Well,…
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Why We Champion the 4 Day Week
When I tell people we’ve had a 4 Day Week since 2011, I think it’s fair to say most people are surprised, impressed and feel a glimmer of hope. There’s hope that the future of work is headed in a more human, happier and healthier direction. REST AND RECOVERY It’s easy to see how the…
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Why Investing in Mental Health Training for Your Team is Important
Why is Mental Health Training Important? It’s a well-known fact that organisations must have first aiders, at least one per floor or a recommendation of 1 per 50 employees. Yet, as the number of suicide deaths per year inch closer to that of heart attack deaths, asthma attacks become less common than panic attacks, and…
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Make your comms POPP!
To create great comms you need to be able to identify the right comms channel for your message to land correctly, with impact and with clarity and the right intended tone. In our Supercharge Your Team Comms workshop, we introduce our workshop participants to POPP (we love an acronym 😉) as a method to identify…
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Creating a CALM tone for your comms
In a recent study, it was highlighted that ‘good comms between leadership & employees’ was the second highest factor in building trust within an organisation. Take a moment to think about your own comms… Are you selecting the right channel to deliver your message? What’s appropriate? What’s thoughtless? Using a non-public channel for some feedback…
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Use Our DUST Tool to Beat Procrastination
We all encounter procrastination in our working lives. It’s a completely normal and human experience, albeit frustrating at times. First things first, the best action you can take is to give yourself a break from feeling guilty. We can then move on to using the DUST tool to identify why you’re stuck in procrastination mode,…
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Strengths Profiling – Uncover Your Hidden Superpower
At Think Productive, we are all about Superpowers – the hidden Warp Propulsion Power System that lies within us all, and offers the possibility of high impact, low friction work and play – if we can only find it. And work out how to switch it on. Well, we have found the Power System. And…
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Creating the Weekly Review Habit
What is the Weekly Review? A weekly review is that thing that keeps you on track as a Productivity Ninja. It’s where you check that your second brain (your sophisticated to-do list) is updated and still serving you well. It’s where you look forward and back at your commitments to see where you need to…
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What is Facilitation?
Our brilliant Productivity Ninja Hayley Watts is an Expert Facilitator and is leading the way with our new service ‘Expert Facilitation‘. But what actually is Facilitation? And how can it help your people? We asked Hayley that very same question… What is Facilitation? I think it’s a bit like ice skating, when it’s done well,…
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Why communication is the key to successful Project Management
We’re handing the blog over to the brilliant Lee Garrett, one of our experts on Project Management Training and resident tech-whizz. When I’m not delivering workshops as a Productivity Ninja for Think Productive, I freelance as both a Project and Programme Manager. And wow. The correlation between the two is amazing! I’ve delivered IT projects for…
