Tag: Productivity
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Use Our DUST Tool to Beat Procrastination
We all encounter procrastination in our working lives. It’s a completely normal and human experience, albeit frustrating at times. First things first, the best action you can take is to give yourself a break from feeling guilty. We can then move on to using the DUST tool to identify why you’re stuck in procrastination mode,…
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Creating the Weekly Review Habit
What is the Weekly Review? A weekly review is that thing that keeps you on track as a Productivity Ninja. It’s where you check that your second brain (your sophisticated to-do list) is updated and still serving you well. It’s where you look forward and back at your commitments to see where you need to…
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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,…
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Productivity & Working From Home
It’s fair to say that these are the most challenging times some of us have seen in our lifetime. With so much uncertainty in the air and the way we live our lives changing so drastically, it’s even being compared to times of war. Amongst all of this, we do believe it is possible to…
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Let’s get virtual ~ Checklist
Question – How can you save £26k* a year? Answer – By investing time and effort in virtual meetings AND doing them properly. If there’s one thing that elicits more dread than the thought of sitting for hours in an office meeting room, it’s spending the same time on a Skype call! But as the…
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Can New Technology Help Eliminate the Productivity Gap?
Conversations around optimizing workplace productivity have always existed—the only real changes to the conversation are the solutions that business leaders consider to ameliorate the productivity gap. In the past, these solutions often had to do with individual performance (how each team member can operate more efficiently). But today, the conversation has shifted to also include…
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Sleep Your Way to Productivity
Is it possible to Sleep Your Way to Productivity? We frequently hit busy spans which make us hope for more than 24 hours in a day. As a Productivity Ninja, you will know, no matter how many hours you spend at the office – the work never stops. Keeping that in mind, it’s important to…
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Going Beyond Busy with Action for Happiness
In late January, several hundred people gathered in Conway Hall in London, invited by Action for Happiness to an evening with the original Productivity Nina, our founder Graham Allcott. The theme of the evening was “Beyond Busy: Worry less, achieve more, love what you do”. Our Head of Business Development, Caitlin Fox, took a front…
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The Perfect Worker Doesn’t Focus on Perfection
This might seem unorthodox, as we’ve all been told otherwise, but perfection is your enemy – not your friend. Perfection can seriously stifle positive momentum and is generally a pointless waste of time. That’s why Productivity Ninjas avoid perfection at all costs. Continue reading to find out why perfection is productivity’s enemy and how you…
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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…
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5 Steps to Productivity Ninja Preparedness
Productivity Ninja Preparedness underpins and strengthens so many of our other Ninja skills and characteristics. It’s all about practical preparedness, through using the right tools, planning and getting organized; as well as mental preparedness. Practicing Ninja Preparedness will mean you’re always prepared to tackle whatever comes your way. And let’s face it – life is…
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Making New Year’s Resolutions Stick
The beginning of the new year is filled with enthusiasm and excitement for what the year ahead might bring. You might already be thinking about the new email etiquette techniques or meeting skills you’re eager to implement in the coming weeks, but will these habits stick? As we progress further into January and the months…
