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This month, I am working 60 minutes a day.  Usually, at 2.30-3.30pm.  After a morning of doing as I please, I set the clock and get to work.  When the clock is ticking down from 60 minutes… – I realise the need to separate thinking from doing.  Right now, the last thing I need is…

There are certain key skills to getting things done in your daily working life. In this post, Think Productive UK founder Graham Allcott gives a few examples of good delegation!   Finding other people to do your work for you (or delegate) is a great way to get more done. This is unorthodox for a…

I’m two weeks in to my 60 MINUTES  experiment.  As I expected, this has been the most challenging one so far.  I’m asking myself a lot of questions, experiencing stress for the first time in a long time and wondering what all this means for the future of my work and the future of work…

Remember the days when you did jobs that didn’t require any judgement? You worked behind the bar somewhere, or in a cake factory.These are the types of jobs where you have a big box of cherries, and down the conveyor belt comes a line of cakes with icing on them. Your job is so simple…

We’ve been thinking about email etiquette recently – the do’s and don’ts of writing clear, productive and helpful emails. When we asked you (via Facebook and Twitter @thinkproductive) about your email pet peeves, we were overwhelmed with the response, so we’ve drawn up a list of inbox annoyances. Feel free to add yours in the comments section, or…

Time management can be such a problem for some people, that they often lose their evenings and weekends to “work” In this post we find out how the weekly checklist can help you organise your week, and reclaim some of that free time!   The density and complexity of our overloaded world means that whilst…

Talking about work-life balance is one thing, but achieving it is another – especially when we are faced with a host of distractions, annoyances and other people’s workflow: all affecting our time management. So here’s a list of some of the main time-stealers, and a few ideas of how to reclaim those minutes, so you…

In this post, Graham continues his time management experiment, 60 Minutes – working for 1 hour a day, 7 days a week Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below, on Facebook or tweet us @thinkproductive In the first couple of posts I talked about the scary bit of the experiment really being me tackling my…

After my long opening post for March, it’s time I shared some details about how I plan to work 60 minutes a day, 7 days a week, throughout the month of March. Here are the common questions I’m getting and my answers to them… What time will your “60 minutes” be? I asked the dice…

Grace Marshall is our Productivity Ninja for the Midlands, where she leads email training and time management workshops. She blogs here and can be found on Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin In this day and age, when so many of us work with our heads rather than solely with our hands, switching off may not be as simple as leaving work…

We’re thinking a lot about work-life balance this month. In this post Graham discusses our need to work, and how it’s about a lot more than money.  What does the phrase “work life balance” mean to you? Comment below or join the conversation on Facebook  Sometime in the weeks before or just after starting a…

When we’re showing people how to get things done, we try to encourage them to use better email etiquette. We’ve asked hundreds of people that we’ve worked with for their email pet peeves and have found one of the biggest sources of annoyance is bad use of the subject line. It’s  usually an afterthought for most email…