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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…
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The cobwebs under your desk
FIRST SEEN ON GRAHAM ALLCOTT’S WEEKLY NEWSLETTER ‘REV UP FOR THE WEEK’. It’s interesting to note how many different approaches there are right now to the notion of ‘getting back to normal’ and returning to the office. There are bosses saying that their workers are ‘abusing’ working from home and ordering them back to the office every…
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How to Rev Up on a Monday Morning…
First seen on Graham Allcott’s weekly newsletter ‘Rev Up for the Week’. The idea of Rev Up for the Week is to give you one productive or positive idea for the week ahead. I had a request last week from someone who was struggling to make the transition from home relaxing to home-working on a…
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Top 5 Meetings Check-ins to combat Zoom Fatigue
Zoom or Teams fatigue. Are you feeling it? Despair no more, as this month I’ve pulled together my top 5 “meetings check-ins” for you.Over the last year I’ve been collecting check-in or icebreaker games and meeting energizers. These games not only help energize or quieten our brains, but also help us connect with each other, awaken…
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Breaking news: Think Productive Head of Brand admits to overtime
Reports of overtime at the UK’s leading authority on productivity and wellbeing transformation, have been confirmed by Head of Brand, Jessica Scott. She told the Inside Track*, “Yes, it’s true. Over the weekend I actually worked into the night to get our new website launched.” Surprising rumours have been circulating that the productivity experts had…
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Productivity Ninja’s share practical tips on coping with Lockdown Stress
In the UK, we’ve started 2021 with news of a third National Lockdown. Across the world, people are experiencing similar situations. Some countries have been in Lockdown for a few weeks now, some might have one looming on the horizon. The constant shift in circumstances, that feeling of instability, is a big trigger for stress.…
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Virtual Meetings: Is the chat function useful?
You log onto your online meeting, you engage in the discussion. Then you notice that there is a lot going on in the chat… People seem to have a lot to say! So you take a look, you perhaps even add an emoji or two, you add to something someone has said, they made a…
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Delivering Online Workshops: What We’ve Learnt
Back in March, the world shifted. Travel halted. Offices shut. Businesses closed. We stopped being in the same room as each other and started only seeing each other through a screen. For Think Productive, as a Productivity Training Company delivering face to face workshops in people’s offices, it was a scary time for us. Luckily,…
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What are the 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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How the Ninja Characteristics helped me Create a Minimalist Lifestyle
Today on the blog we’re handing you over to one of our brilliant Productivity Ninja’s in the Wild! Emma shares her experience of how the Ninja Characteristics helped her create a minimalist lifestyle. —– Hi, my name is Emma and I’m a shopaholic (but now I’m a minimalist)! Or rather, I used to be. I…
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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 empowerment, autonomy and flexibility from their jobs.…
