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We make decisions every day. Some are “no brainers”, some require more thinking and a few may cause us a lot of stress. Here are a few thoughts on decision making – Ninja-style   Stay Calm Great decision-making comes from the ability to create the time and space to think rationally and intelligently about the…

Here at Think Productive UK we often work with teams, giving them advice on how to get things done. Often they’re working on a joint goal – so in this post, Think Productive UK founder Graham Allcott discussed the only 5 milestones you need to make sure your project stays on course! For the day-to-day…

  For Think Productive UK founder Graham Allcott, January has been a month of “email Friday” – only checking his inbox once a week.  As well as reducing his distractions, Graham also found another interesting side effect of this experiment During my Email Friday experiment, something quite remarkable happened. People I know stopped emailing me. …

As we come to the end of Think Productive UK founder Graham Allcott’s month of “email Friday”, he discusses some of the consequences of only checking his inbox once a week  All this month, I’ve only ‘done’ emails on Fridays.  It has surprised me in some ways how easy this has been, but there have been…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…