Tag: Leadership
-
The Real Cost of Disengaged Employees: £14,280 a Year
A disengaged employee doesn’t just coast. They cost you £14,280 a year. During our recent Energised Teams, Real Results skills booster, Productivity Ninja Grace Marshall and Leadership Expert David Papa got straight to the point: when energy drops, performance follows. Not eventually. Immediately. It’s an uncomfortable truth for anyone managing people right now. Gallup’s latest…
-
Only 1 in 5 Employees Feel Engaged at Work. Here’s the Bigger Problem.
Global employee engagement has now fallen for two consecutive years. The latest 2026 State of the Global Workplace report puts engagement at just 20%, with declining manager engagement identified as a major driver. That statistic should concern every organisation. Because engagement is rarely lost in one dramatic moment. More often, it fades gradually under the…
-
Cracking the Engagement Puzzle: How to Rebuild Team Energy and Trust
Employee engagement is no longer a ‘nice to have’. It’s the difference between a team that’s just surviving and one that’s thriving. And yet, right now, so many managers are struggling to keep energy, ownership and motivation alive. Quiet quitting, burnout, and disengagement aren’t just buzzwords; they’re showing up in your one-to-ones, your missed deadlines,…
-
Is Your Team Really Engaged or Just Going Through the Motions?
Many teams look busy. But beneath the surface? Disengagement is growing. At Think Productive, we believe productivity isn’t about doing more. It’s about connecting better. With your work. With your team. With what really matters. That’s why we’re speaking at the CIPD Festival of Work 2025, inviting HR professionals and people leaders to rethink what…
-
We Need to Talk
Feedback is one of those icky subjects. At Think Productive, we’ve been on a mission recently to drive up our own feedback culture, as well as it being something we help many of our clients do too. This means getting savvy about both giving and receiving feedback. It’s never easy, but here are a few…
-
Strengths Profiling – Uncover Your Hidden Superpower
At Think Productive, we are all about Superpowers – the hidden Warp Propulsion Power System that lies within us all, and offers the possibility of high impact, low friction work and play – if we can only find it. And work out how to switch it on. Well, we have found the Power System. And…
-
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,…
-
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…
-
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.…
-
5 Ways Your Company Values Help Your Organisation Today
Oh gee what are they again? Those things the leaders talk about in their latest video blogs and that are now up on the wall… those company values! Or are you able to recite them all and apply them to the purpose of your business and your role within it? Which in turn enables consistency…
-
Bringing Human Back to Work
Deadlines. Targets. Meetings. Emails. Objectives. Performance measures. Waste reduction. Cost efficiency. Response Times. Getting stuff done. Sometimes our quest for productivity have us so focused on the work, we forget about the humans doing the work. How do we humans do our best work? How do we bring more of that into our workplaces? Productivity…
-
Productivity Ninjas Know How to Celebrate
It’s been an exciting start to the year for our Think Productive team. You might have already seen us shout it from the digital rooftops, but our Productivity Ninja brand had a whole lot to celebrate lately. Graham Allcott’s best-selling book ‘How to be a Productivity Ninja’ has been re-released for its 5th anniversary back…
