Think Productive have teamed up with Train to Gain to offer your company a grant to access 3 places on our 1 day “How to Get Things Done” public workshop for just £50 (usual price for 3 places is £597 + BF)
For more information on the grant download the PDF by clicking here
For more information about our public workshops click here
Thank you everyone who attended the workshop in London and made it a success! For people who missed out on all the fun, you are in luck!! Our next London workshop is on the 16th November. For more info or to book your place click HERE
“It feels modern & relevant to the flexible way we work/manage ourselves. Enjoyed Grahams real examples/experiences”
“Loved the idea of having our own collection points (trays) that we could add to throughout the day – I came up with some great new projects & ideas”
“Inspiring facilitator”
“Very clear communication, great personal attention even with a group context”
“Was a little sceptical going in to the training but found the opportunity to review, implement, sort, clear my head really useful”
“After ‘inbox to zero’ which changed my world – this was a good follow up with more detail”
“If you require a system that you can trust to store up all your projects and actions then this is for you”
“Fun and relaxed – but also gives you time to evaluate how you do things and how you can make yourself merge your systems of organisation”
“Great time to reflect and evaluate”
“The key is using time efficiently to get things done in smaller chunks of time which will impact greatly on both work and personal life”
She was a bit nervous but she did it anyway. She held the microphone without waving it around and everyone heard what she said. She asked for feedback after making a short presentation to a room full of 260 people. “Was I alright?” She really wanted to know.
We might feel inclined to give strokes. “Yes you were great… brilliant. Sure you were”. That doesn’t help much.
Try this easy tip next time you have to give feedback, give a commendation, a recommendation, and finsih with a commendation. My feedback went something like this:
Commendation:
“I didn’t hear any nervousness in your voice, even though you say you felt it”
Recommendation:
“It was a big room and I noticed you were talking mainly to the people straight ahead of you; next time look at all corners of the room so as to include everyone in what you were saying”
Commendation:
“You knew the three points you wanted to make and you said them clearly so that everyone heard them”.
Three true things. One thing to improve sandwiched between two lots of encouragement to do more of what she was doing brilliantly already. Goes down a treat.
Ah, the GTD weekly review! For those of us that use it regularly, probably the best 1-2 hours of our working weeks. For those of you struggling with implementing David Allen’s Getting Things Done, it’s often the piece in the jigsaw that just doesn’t fit. It’s also probably the most-asked question on our How to Get Things Done workshop: “how do you find the time, motivation and discipline to regularly review?”.
I recently met up with Roxanne and Martha who have become GTD Weekly Review Buddies . They meet weekly at the RSA, do their reviews, swapping tips and sharing problems as they go. Roxanne and Martha don’t ever miss their weekly review any more, because if they did they’d be letting the side down. It’s great psychology: have you noticed how we’re often less keen to let others down than ourselves?
At Think Productive, we run in-house workshops for teams to get to grips with GTD as well as other leading productivity techniques. We don’t do the standard time management training stuff that you take home, put in the drawer and forget about though: we blend workshop time with at-desk coaching to ensure that changes are made and that the learning really sticks. So if it would benefit your organisation to have an army of super-productive and less-stressed people running around getting things done, call us! Or fill in the nifty enquiry form to the right on this page.
And for individuals, we also run How to Get Things Done workshops in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol, Bath and Brighton. Click on the cities listed for details.
You can also check out Roxanne and Martha’s work here:
Roxanne – www.twitter.com/commutiny
Martha – www.marthalawton.com
Event Update:
places are selling fast for our september workshops – places still available for
Manchester – 9th September 2010
London – 20th September 2010
Brighton – 22nd September 2010
Bristol – 22nd October 2010
Bath – 22nd November 2010
Birmingham – 10th December 2010
Book early to avoid disappointment!!
We are taking our popular “How to Get Things Done” workshop on tour, we will be visiting London, Brighton, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and Bath with the aim of helping all you wonderful people increase productivity, beat stress, feel more in control of your work and develop playful, productive momentum
Our workshops have developed a strong reputation for being amongst the best in the business on personal productivity – popular with staff at leading organisations like British Airways, Barclays Commercial, University College London and the Cabinet Office, as well as with charity Chief Executives and even Members of Parliament! Our public workshops take us on the road to give you a chance to see what all the fuss is about.
Think Productive are always promoting the idea of playful productive momentum, What better way of getting things done than having fun while doing it? Turning a boring task into a game can make a task a lot easier and fun to do, but this is taking it to the extreme!
EpicWin is available from the iTunes App Store. If you give it an honest go, let’s hear how well it seems to aid your ability to get things done in the comments.
