Productivity

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

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

Oh gee what are they again? Those things the leaders talk about in their latest video blogs and that are now up on the wall… those company values! Or are you able to recite them all and apply them to the purpose of your business and your role within it? Which in turn enables consistency

Takeaway: A pre-mortem is a ritual that helps you account for all that could go wrong with a project—in advance of those mishaps actually occurring in real life. Three steps to do a pre-mortem: identify the projects you want to go well, imagine the worst case scenarios, and create a plan to make your project

How do you motivate a remote team and lead them to feel empowered, autonomous, trusted to work with flexibility and retain the same level of productivity?  All of which ultimately feeds into a virtuous circle of higher engagement, motivation, wellbeing and productivity. Many people today are screaming for empowerment, autonomy and flexibility from their jobs.

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.  Or rather, I used to be.   I have always loved clothes, make

Takeaway: Change is inevitable and we need to learn to embrace it. Four tactics to get you started: have an awareness for change and how it interacts with your expectations, see every data point as part of a broader trend, shift your mindset to view change as the default state of the world, and meditate.

You log onto your online meeting, you engage in the discussion. Then you notice that there is a lot going on in the chat… People seem to have a lot to say! So you take a look, you perhaps even add an emoji or two, you add to something someone has said, they made a

Takeaway: Many of us want to read more but are unsure of how to do it. A handful of tactics to try: set specific times to read, create a comfortable physical environment, identify less meaningful activities and replace them with reading, read shorter books, have multiple books on-the-go, put down books you’re not enjoying, make

Stop doing what you are doing and the way you’re doing it. You must quickly learn and get comfortable with some new technology. Your content needs to be reworked for the new reality too. We need to provide the same value, meet the same need, but in a very different way. By next Friday. Do