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The Accidental Project Manager (Skills Booster)
Because most people leading projects were never actually taught how.
If your projects feel reactive, messy or harder than they should be, you’re not alone.
This free 30-minute Skills Booster gives you simple, practical ways to manage projects with more clarity, momentum and less stress.
Ideal for anyone juggling deadlines, stakeholders and competing priorities.
The Cost of Unkind Leadership (Skills Booster)
When kindness goes, trust and morale go with it.
In tough times, kindness is often the first thing to go. Learn how to lead with kindness in difficult moments and embed it into your team’s culture.
Working in the fast lane: Productivity Ninja Strategies for ADHD Brains (Skills Booster)
You may have aced our Productivity Ninja training, or perhaps you’re new to Productivity Ninja, and simply recognise that most productivity systems can fall apart when life gets busy. Either way, momentum fades. Projects lose their shine, boring tasks pile up and the familiar cycle of overwhelm, procrastination and self-criticism return.
The problem isn’t discipline, and it certainly isn’t that Productivity Ninja is wrong for you. ADHD brains are built for speed, creativity and novelty; they just need a few unique adaptations. Challenges with working memory, filtering, time awareness and energy regulation can make typical systems feel fragile, even when they’re fundamentally sound.
This Productivity Ninja Skills Booster bridges that gap. It’s designed for anyone who wants ADHD-aware productivity tools, for themselves or for their team, whether you’ve done Productivity Ninja once, many times, or not at all.
In this practical, ADHD-aware session, Think Productive’s ADHD expert consultant Giles Orford will help you learn how to adapt CORD (or build a simple, ADHD-friendly system if you’re new to it): capture tasks more reliably, organise around energy and context, revive stalled projects and make routine work more engaging. You’ll explore body doubling, novelty, immediate rewards and “making it easy” variations to build momentum, as well as kinder reviews, ‘fierce prompts’ and simple accountability to help your unique system stick.
No rigid rules. No attempt to fix or force those brilliant brains. Just practical experiments to help you.
The Decision Bottleneck (Skills Booster)
When every decision has to pass through you, nothing progresses until you’re free. Your team waits, momentum stalls, and the small calls pile up alongside the big ones until sign-off itself becomes the bottleneck. In this session, you’ll learn a simple way to sort which decisions genuinely need you and which ones your team is already equipped to make. Save your seat and start the year without being the hold-up.
Leading Through Change Without Losing Your Team – Skills Booster Session
Leading through change is one of the hardest challenges for people managers. Whether your organisation is going through a restructure, merger, or a new way of working, your team is still looking to you for answers, even when you don’t have all of them.
In this Leading Through Change Skills Booster, Grace Marshall and Jess Scott explore how managers can lead teams through uncertainty while maintaining trust, psychological safety and engagement.
You’ll learn how to:
• Lead your team when you don’t have all the answers
• Build trust by being honest about uncertainty
• Use curiosity to reduce fear and encourage openness
• Create psychological safety during periods of change
• Respond rather than react when emotions run high
• Focus on what you can control, influence and accept
• Help your team identify what they can hold on to and bring with them
One of the simplest questions you can use with your team is:
“What can we hold on to, and what can we bring with us?”
It turns a difficult conversation about change into a practical conversation about what comes next.
This session is designed for people managers, team leaders and anyone responsible for helping people navigate organisational change.
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Microsoft Copilot Training: Work Smarter with Copilot | Smarter Work with Copilot
Microsoft Copilot is already sitting inside many organisations’ Microsoft 365 licences. But having access to Copilot and knowing how to use it effectively are two very different things.
In this video, we explore how Microsoft Copilot can help people work smarter, save time and get better results from everyday tasks, including emails, meetings, reports and other workplace tasks.
The problem is often not the technology. It’s knowing what to ask, how to give Copilot the right context, and where the tool can genuinely help.
One simple technique can change the quality of your results:
“Before you answer, what questions do you need to ask me?”
We call this the Not Yet Method. Instead of immediately guessing what you need, Copilot asks for the context it needs to produce a more useful response.
In this session, you’ll discover:
• How to get better results from Microsoft Copilot
• Why your first Copilot attempts may not produce useful answers
• Practical prompting techniques for everyday work
• How to use Copilot for emails, meetings and reports
• How to identify tasks where Copilot can save you time
• How to build confidence with AI at work
• Where human judgement still matters when using AI
• How organisations can move from Copilot access to genuine adoption
Smarter Work with Copilot is a practical two-hour workshop from Think Productive. Participants work with their own real tasks rather than watching generic demonstrations, learn four practical prompting techniques and leave with a plan for their first three Copilot uses.
The goal isn’t to replace human expertise. It’s to help people use Microsoft Copilot as a useful co-pilot while keeping human judgement at the centre.
Learn more about Smarter Work with Copilot:
https://thinkproductive.co.uk/workshops/smarter-work-with-copilot/
00:00 Microsoft Copilot Introduction
01:18 AI at Work
02:38 Copilot Standard vs Premium
05:03 How Copilot Works
06:26 Copilot Accuracy & Human Judgment
07:44 Using AI for Productivity
08:52 Copilot Prompting Tips
20:23 Better AI Prompts
21:56 The Not Yet Method
23:19 How to Prompt Copilot
24:45 Using AI for Deep Work
25:54 Advanced Copilot Prompts
26:42 Giving Copilot Better Context
27:58 Copilot for Meetings
28:34 AI Meeting Summaries
29:15 Copilot for Emails
29:50 Copilot for Presentations
30:28 Copilot for Project Management
31:16 Copilot for Productivity
31:58 Microsoft Copilot Best Practices
33:10 Copilot Training & Resources
33:56 Copilot Q&A
34:32 Building AI Skills
35:17 AI Policies & Guidelines
36:02 Microsoft Copilot Training
36:53 Smarter Work with Copilot Workshop
37:34 AI Training Resources
38:19 Building AI Skills at Work
39:06 Copilot Resources & Next Steps
40:34 AI Ethics & Sustainability
41:09 Trusting AI Results
41:54 AI Environmental Impact
42:41 Microsoft Copilot Support
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The Manager's Balancing Act – Skill Booster Session
Managers are pulled in every direction; targets to hit, teams to support, and pressure from above.
Without balance, the role quickly becomes overwhelming.
In this webinar, Lindsay Calder Recknell will guide you through the three essentials every manager must balance: tasks, team, and individual.
You’ll learn how to spot when you’re off-kilter, adapt your style, and protect your own wellbeing while leading others. This is about managing without burning out and thriving in the process.
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00:00 Introduction, Host Introductions, and Session Overview
02:47 Session Purpose and Initial Engagement
04:52 Discussion on Manager Qualities and Common Challenges
08:53 Leadership Skills: Listening, Empowerment, and Feedback
13:31 Managing Tasks, Team, Individuals, and Unexpected Needs
20:39 Exploring Management Styles
26:34 Feedback Essentials and Kind Leadership
29:53 Manager Self-Care and Well-being
32:53 Q&A, Action Planning, and Additional Resources
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Energized Teams, Real Results – Skills Booster
When energy drops, performance follows. A team running on empty can’t innovate, collaborate, or deliver their best. But energy, positivity, and motivation are just as contagious as stress.
Grace and David will share how managers can spark trust, belonging, and motivation, even in tough times. You’ll leave with practical ways to boost morale, build resilience, and create a team culture that lifts performance rather than drags it down.
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00:00 Introduction to Engagement Puzzle
15:20 Impact of Fear on Team Performance
30:41 Overcoming Meeting Anxiety
5:51 Strategies for Remote Participation
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Focus in a Distracted World | Deep Work & Productivity Strategies for Better Focus
Constant interruptions, shifting priorities, and digital noise are now the norm. The cost? Shallow work, rising stress, and never-ending days.
This skills booster with Lee equips you with strategies to cut through the clutter and reclaim deep focus. You’ll learn how to protect your best hours, set boundaries without guilt, and design your environment for concentration.
Attention is today’s most valuable resource; this webinar shows you how to defend it.
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00:00 Introduction to Productive Skills
15:03 Digital Stealth and Distraction Management
30:24 Focus Techniques: Eat the Frog and Pomodoro
45:36 Managing Energy and Session Conclusion
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