Tag: Management
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Why feedback feels so hard (and what to do about it)
Feedback is one of those things everyone agrees is important. And yet it’s often the thing that gets avoided. Not because managers don’t care, but because it feels uncomfortable, risky, or easy to get wrong. So instead: And over time, that creates confusion, frustration, and underperformance. 3 simple ways to make feedback easier In our…
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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…
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Why Investing in Mental Health Training for Your Team is Important
Why is Mental Health Training Important? It’s a well-known fact that organisations must have first aiders, at least one per floor or a recommendation of 1 per 50 employees. Yet, as the number of suicide deaths per year inch closer to that of heart attack deaths, asthma attacks become less common than panic attacks, and…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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The Daily Huddle
As you’ll know from our Facilitation Training, we are on a mission to change the way the world thinks about meetings and help improve meeting skills to reduce the number of meetings being held and make the ones you do attend ridiculously productive. One of those ridiculously productive and valuable meetings, is Verne Harnish’s Daily…
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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 Boosting Checklist for Managers & Leaders
Our Productivity Ninja, Hayley, is often asked by delegates in our time management workshops how managers can make their organisation or their teams more productive. Like all things that relate to productivity and wellbeing, there isn’t just one answer, one thing that you can do to help solve the existing problems and challenges. It’s a…
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A Manager’s Role in Team Work-Life Balance
As an employer, it’s important to support your staff and encourage a good work-life balance in your business. By offering help such as time management training, you stand a better chance of preventing the effects of work related stress taking their toll. The increase of technology is making it possible for people to work from…
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Is it Time to Introduce Shorter Work Days?
Work days are very typical: show up in the office sometime between 7 and 9, and leave about eight hours later. Monday through Friday, day in and day out, with the weekends giving you a chance to recharge your mental batteries. Working overtime seems to be encouraged by many companies. Dedicated employees might put in 20,…
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The Happy Factor: Why Office Design is Integral in Creating Happy Employees
From Time Management Training Workshops to boosting staff retention levels, a workplace that genuinely cares for the happiness of each and every member of the team will be far more likely to reach higher levels of success in the long term – and that means that paying attention to interior design principles is crucial in the…
