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You may have had a new gadget for Christmas, or just need some extra help to keep those New Year Resolutions.  Either way, here are some of the things to think about when choosing a new productivity tool. Find out more about personal productivity at our How to be a Productivity Ninja Workshop  Functionality This…

I’m a couple of days into this first experiment.  Here’s what I’ve done so far:   – Switched my Outlook account to ‘offline’  – and kept it offline since new year’s day. – Created an ‘Out of Office’ message saying I’ll be back on Friday.  This will remain in place now for a month! –…

Read Graham’s introduction to his year of experimentation, here Welcome to my year of extreme productivity. Do you remember “No email fridays“?  The idea that for just a day, we could stop checking, pick up the phone to each other, reduce unneccessary communication and, er, get some real work done? Well, my January is going to…

Graham Allcott, from Think Productive UK explains his plans for 2013 – a year of productivity experimentation. Have you ever experimented with your productivity?  Let us know in the comments Happy New Year. There’s a famous story of a boy who every day, walks home from school past a huge church wall, twice as tall…

          Our brains have evolved a lot since we were monkeys, but one thing has hardly changed: the lizard brain. A term popularised by Seth Godin in his brilliant book Linchpin, this part of our brain still remembers what it was like to need to survive, to blend in, to not…

          Attend our effective meetings training   The unique facet of a meeting is that you have all the people that matter in a room together, and you can eyeball them. This means that you can really get a sense of the nuances, politics and potential commitment of all the key…

You probably have a few items on your to-do list that have been hanging around for a few weeks or even months. These items are not pets.  There are no prizes for keeping a long list. What is stopping you from actually making progress?  Maybe it’s other higher priority work getting in the way? But…

One of the worst things you can do is make yourself always available. It’s an invitation to some of your biggest enemies: distraction and interruption. Keep out of the limelight until you’ve got something you need others to hear. Avoid too much of the social chit chat and time-wastery that goes on in so many…

I recently had a week off in Croatia. I try my best to make sure a week off actually means a week off and luckily, the wifi was so bad there, that our phones and iPads weren’t picking up all the emails coming in. So when I got home, refreshed from a great few days…

  Grace Marshall is our Productivity Ninja for the Midlands She blogs at https://grace-marshall.com/ and can be found on Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin   I am NOT a morning person. Night owl, yes. In fact I’ve been known to be more awake at 6am on the rare occasions that I’ve stayed up all night than if I’ve…

            I’m delighted to welcome Grace Marshall to our growing team of Think Productive UK Productivity Ninjas! Grace is based in Stafford and will be covering the West Midlands region, spreading the way of the productivity ninja to the people and organisations of the region. Of course, the area is…

This weeks task is bought to you by our new productivity Ninja for the West Midlands Grace Marshall  “Get a Grip on Guilt” is just one of Grace’s “21 Ways to Manage the Stuff That Sucks Up Your Time” available on Amazon now.     When you have multiple roles, commitments or several projects on…