Tag: Time Management Training
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Why prioritisation alone doesn’t fix overwhelm at work
Some days, the work itself isn’t the hardest part. The hardest part is deciding what deserves your attention first. You’re busy all day, constantly responding, switching, and reacting, yet nothing meaningful seems to move forward. The list gets longer, not shorter, and the sense of control slips away. This is exactly the tension explored in…
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11 reasons why delegating is a win-win.
Do you find delegation tricky? When it comes to delegating more, do you find yourself using excuses like these? All valid reasons, but have you considered what message each of these excuses is sending your team? It’s time to reframe this messaging because delegating when done well, is WIN-WIN. YOU WIN You get to: 1.…
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Time Management Training for Busy People
You’re busy. You have a million and one things on your plate and the list never ends. You’re wondering how you’re going to manage your workload and meet your deadlines. You think about going on a course or workshop to learn how to prioritize. You google ‘Time Management Training’. Maybe that’s what you need? Well,…
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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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The cobwebs under your desk
FIRST SEEN ON GRAHAM ALLCOTT’S WEEKLY NEWSLETTER ‘REV UP FOR THE WEEK’. It’s interesting to note how many different approaches there are right now to the notion of ‘getting back to normal’ and returning to the office. There are bosses saying that their workers are ‘abusing’ working from home and ordering them back to the office every…
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How to Rev Up on a Monday Morning…
First seen on Graham Allcott’s weekly newsletter ‘Rev Up for the Week’. The idea of Rev Up for the Week is to give you one productive or positive idea for the week ahead. I had a request last week from someone who was struggling to make the transition from home relaxing to home-working on a…
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How the Ninja Characteristics helped me Create a Minimalist Lifestyle
Today on the blog we’re handing you over to one of our brilliant Productivity Ninja’s in the Wild! Emma shares her experience of how the Ninja Characteristics helped her create a minimalist lifestyle. —– Hi, my name is Emma and I’m a shopaholic (but now I’m a minimalist)! Or rather, I used to be. I…
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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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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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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…
