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CORD Productivity Model – Do
This is the final post in a series of articles on the CORD Productivity Model. You can read the previous articles here We’ve already explored the C(ollect and Capture), O(rganise) and R(eview) habits, but of course, all of these are of little use or value unless we’re in the habit of Doing things! The Do habit…
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CORD Productivity Model – Review
Have you read our first 2 posts in this series? If not, check them out here: Capture and Collect Organise ——————————— (Image courtesy of mrgarin via Flickr Creative Commons) We’re going to look at two checklists to structure your Review habit: Weekly and Daily. Think about the Review habit as the time when your boss-self and worker-self sit down…
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CORD Productivity Model – Organise
This is part of a series of posts on the CORD Productivity Model – for earlier posts, click here. (List image Some rights reserved by ironybelle via FLickr) —– If you haven’t already – give the first stage, Capture and Collect post a read Once we have all of those information inputs captured and collected together, the Organise habit is…
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Cord Productivity Model – Capture and Collect
This is the latest post is our CORD Productivity Model series – for previous posts, visit Introduction or How To Use It Note: this post is part of a series – you might want to read each one, but hold off following the tasks until we’ve published the whole lot – then you can tackle…
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CORD Productivity Model – How to Use It
Confused? Read our introductory post here The CORD model describes the four distinct elements of knowledge work. In other words, the four things that always need to happen to add value or impact to any single piece of information. It’s a model that you can use both to think about how you manage your personal workflow…
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CORD Productivity Model – introduction
(image courtesy of Nicholas Smale Some rights reserved via Flickr) Things have changed: old time management techniques are no longer sufficient to ensure we have a good grasp of all the various tasks and projects we’re managing, let alone sufficient to help us react quickly and responsibly to the myriad of information inputs we’re being bombarded with all the time. Instead we…
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1-1 Productivity Consultancy
When you’re the one everyone else relies on, who helps you get your time back? Senior leaders and directors carry a different kind of overwhelm. The inbox doesn’t stop, the calendar is never really yours, and there’s rarely space, or anyone senior enough in the room, to properly work through it. Group training doesn’t always…
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How Managers Can Use Scrum to Increase Productivity
Within most organizations, the structure is more or less the same: there are a handful of must-do components, all of which are interwoven to create company processes and procedures. But the Scrum method, which is part of an agile working concept, aims to flip that norm on its ear. Instead, the teams become the focus,…
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Productivity Ninja Resources
A productivity ninja has to have his or her ninja tools. Here’s a couple of resources our delegates have found useful in the pursuit of ninja like productivity. Feel free to check them out, print a copy, go on you could even laminate them. Don’t say we never give you anything. The Cord Productivity Model:…
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Rebel Kitchen Case Study
Turning “total chaos” into one shared productivity language Sector: Food & BeverageServices delivered: How to be a Productivity Ninja® (Full day) At a glance Respondants Results 99% said the workshop would make a positive difference to their productivity 89% rated the session “Very Good” or “Excellent” 1 day for the whole team to start speaking…
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Maynia – Collecting stress
One of the key habits we talk about in our productivity training and in the CORD Productivity Model is Capturing and Collecting: the idea that we should bring together all the bits of paper, ideas, emails and anything else that needs something doing to it, so that we have a pile of things to then…
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What Makes a Great Manager? The Manager’s Balancing Act
Ask anyone about the best manager they ever had and they’ll answer instantly. Ask them what made that manager great, and the answers are strikingly consistent: they listened, they backed me, they helped me grow. In our recent skills booster, The Manager’s Balancing Act, Productivity Ninja Hayley Watts unpacked why management feels so relentless right now.…
