Thank you everyone who attended the workshop in Bristol last Friday and helped make it a great success!
For people who missed out on all the fun, you are in luck – our next South West workshop is in Bath on the 22nd November.
For more info or to book your place (currently HALF PRICE) click HERE
How would you describe the benefits of the workshop to your friends?
• “A practical framework to maximise time.”
• “A practical, flexible approach full of good ideas but with its feet firmly on the ground.”
• “Absolutely worth doing if you feel snowed under.”
• “De-stress capability and personal satisfaction about being in control.”
• “Empowering you to take time to think.”
• “Excellent tools for structuring life to achieve more!”
• “Focus, take stress out.”
• “Gets you to stand back and think, and consciously evaluate the way you work and value your time.”
• “Helps you to organize your tasks more effectively, not in terms of time but in terms of context.”
• “Learning a structure that enhances productivity.”
• “One of the best productivity workshops I have attended – and I have attended a few!”
• “Practical, energising, potentially life-enhancing!”
Was there anything you particularly liked?
• “Calm engaging delivery, easy to follow – no jargon works for me!”
• “Came up with some useful tips and the conscious thinking about what I now do every day – not just bad habits of doing ‘stuff’.”
• “Clear explanation of topics covered.”
• “Clear structure, clear exposition, good balance of theory and practice.”
• “Definitely feel I can do this with confidence now.”
• “Delivery had a well-suited voice, pitched right.”
• “Expectation was that (it would be) more formulaic and theory – was more actionable and clear than expected!”
• “Felt very actionable. Also seeing how Lee uses it. Real.”
• “Flow – went very quickly.”
• “I liked the energy / enthusiasm / positive vibe in the room.”
• “Lee is an excellent facilitator – knowledgeable, enthusiastic and humane.”
• “Pace and structure very good – clear and understandable.”
• “Practical, knowledgeable, digestible.”
Think Productive have teamed up with Train to Gain to offer your company a grant to access our “Getting Your Inbox to Zero” in-house workshop for half price!
For more information on the grant download the PDF by clicking here
For more information about our “Getting Your Inbox to Zero” workshop click here
How many times have you sat in a presentation and had no idea what’s on the slides because they’re just too small. It’s so simple to put right. Here’s what you do.
Make them bigger!
Which means having fewer slides and fewer points on each. Have five slides with five points on each is a good idea. If you reckon you can’t fit in all your wonderful points, then take a walk and think about what you really want people to remember at the end of your presentation. Just put those points down.
Bigger is much better. And less is much more.
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.
Put it off. Put it off. Put it off. You know it doesn’t make sense. So do the worst first!
If you make a list of what you’ve got to do today or this week there’ll be something in there which you just don’t want to do. The call, the report, the notes of the meeting, the email, the conversation with a colleague.
I had one today. A simple phone call. “Will you speak at the conference?” I was uneasy about it. Would she think my idea was mad, maybe she’d be off hand, maybe she’d be a bit stuffy about it. Do it. Now! First thing of the day. Then feel the relief and have all your energy at your disposal and not diverted
into unnecessary worrying.
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.
At Think Productive, we love David Allen’s Getting Things Done – it’s one of the major time management systems we use both internally as a team and with our clients as part of our workshops. Here are 10 ways you know you’ve cracked it. Feel free to add your own as a comment too!
1. You think about clearing your email in the same way as you think about checking your voicemail
2. Wherever you go, you’ve always got a way to write things down
3. You know there’s a really important conversation you need to have with your partner so you put it on your agendas list
4. You read stuff you actually want to read when you’re on public transport or the dentists waiting room, rather than the free newspapers provided
5. When you think about where to go on holiday, your next thought is ‘what’s the next action?’
6. You have a favourite time or place to do your weekly review
7. You become the annoying person in a meeting who actually wants to know what the meeting is for in the first place
8. You feel relaxed and in control, despite having more projects on the go than anyone else you know
9. When you’re in the middle of a city centre with an hour or so to kill, you’ve got a list of shopping or culture possibilities to make sure the time is used productively
10. You don’t get overwhelmed about work at the beginning or end of the working week because you know your GTD system includes a thorough weekly review
On our time management worshops we often talk about the issue of ‘connectivity vs productivity
’: whilst we should focus on being productive we’re often simply addicted to being connected, in the loop and plugged in. In our Email Etiquette workshop, we also talk about the Blackberry (‘Crackberry’) abuse that goes on in organisations and help people to change these bad habits. If I go away it’s usually for about a month so it’s quite normal for me to take a few bits of work with me and stay relatively in the loop but it’s also good to completely disconnect (with no exceptions!) so that you can stop thinking about work, take time to reflect and experience a change of pace. I’m happy to report that nothing ‘blew up’ during my week away, and if you’re tempted to take the laptop with you or keep your blackberry turned on whilst you’re away on your hols, here’s the view from the other side – I hope it changes your mind!
Also, if you’re worried about coming back to hundreds of emails, fear not! Our ‘Getting Your Inbox to ZeroEmail workshop will coach you to do exactly that in just 3 hours! Email us for more details.
