The Join Between Team And Personal Systems
watch time: 8:42 mins An important topic lately has been that of the compatibility and flexibility between the systems a team uses and those an individual uses to organise their tasks. If this has been a concern for you or your team, check out Todd’s take on...
Three Key Components Of Healthy High Performance On A Team
est. reading time: 5:15 mins When a team member goes off sick with burnout, most organisations respond admirably. In many countries the person’s job is protected by law, and beyond that some companies will provide support for their rehabilitation. When the time comes...
How To Measure Employee Training Effectiveness?
watch time: 2:19 mins Are you curious how effective your team really is? Or have you done some training for your team but don’t actually have any measure of success? Check out our latest video for some insight into how we measure the effectiveness of our two day...
Improve Your Team’s Efficiency With This Tip!
watch time: 2:50 mins If you’re a team leader or manager, we have an exercise for you to try this week in order to improve your team’s efficiency and...
How To Break Down Complex Projects (Video Podcast) Ep. 66
In this episode, Robert and Todd discuss how to manage and break down large projects, wether it’s a complex email or a big personal event like a wedding. watch time: 24 mins Subscribe to the Podcast 0:00:05.6 Todd Brown: Hello everyone, and welcome to another of...
Is This Acceptable E-Mail Practice?
watch time: 5:31 mins Every organisation has their own standards around email best practices, but perhaps we can agree this one is not...
3 Reasons Why You Need GTD® In Your Workplace Wellbeing Programme
watch time: 5:56 mins Are you looking for the next great addition to your workplace wellness programme? Here are 3 reason why you should consider...
3 Signs You (Or Your Team) Need GTD®!
watch time: 10:42 mins Here are our top signs that GTD® ( Getting Things Done®) will improve your and/or your team’s...
Wellbeing Training For You And Your Team ( & How It Works)!
watch time: 7:58 mins Employee stress in the work place is a common theme nowadays. Our GTD training will bring more balance to wellness at work and in your personal life. This video explains just how and why it...
3 Tips For Becoming A More Effective Leader
watch time: 14 mins. If you are taking on a new role or want to make sure the leaders in your organisation are as effective as possible, this video will provide 3 essential tips for becoming a better...
How To Avoid Burnout At Work
Burnout has become a very common term and today we are tackling how you can avoid burnout for yourself and your team or organisation. What can you do and why does more software actually make it worse?
Why Working Harder Isn’t Always More Productive
Earlier this month I was forwarded an article by Arianna Huffington regarding what she calls “burnout deniers” focused in particular on Elon Musk’s recent take-over of Twitter and reports of Musk giving “his staffers an ultimatum — they could commit to an...
What Would Maverick Do?
“I feel the need, the need for speed.” – Top Gun Whisper it, but more than once down the years I’ve heard it said that Tom Cruise is a fan of GTD®. He’d be a great GTD ambassador if it were true. Let’s face it, he gets things done – over 75 movies,...
An Expensive Time Peace
I thought my last post had settled it. I’d made the point about the value of investing in yourself and your people. Readers would get it, change their behaviour, job done. A few days later some feedback came in: Dear Ed, A great post with little or nothing to...
Why Doesn’t Everyone Do GTD®?
The success of GTD® in the first two decades since the book was first published is extraordinary. Millions of copies sold, translated into many languages, taught by certified trainers around the world, an established global licenced partner network, and all still...
Lost Benefit Analysis
“That’s too expensive for us.” We’d been talking about offering our services to her people, and the remark caught me a bit off-guard. She was the CEO of a decent sized business, who had just finished rhapsodizing about the benefits she’d been getting from using GTD®...
How To Be A Better Boss … Including To Yourself!
It’s no secret that having a bad boss is stressful, but what kind of boss are you to...
Making Meetings Make Sense
Today Todd gives some great tips that you can easily implement at your next meeting to start making them more...
Written In The Stars
I bet you get asked this all the time: Sound familiar? It should – most people have been asked this at the end of a Teams or Zoom call in the hope that they’ll click on the stars and share their feelings about audio and video quality. Now,...
Burnout – GTD As Vaccine And Antidote
“We help our clients get more of the right things done, with less stress.” There are more poetic, and more nuanced versions, but the above is the most succinct summary of our work I’ve been able to find. Twelve years ago, when we set up the business, most of our...
Does Mental Health And Safety Need A New Standard?
What happens when you hear the words ‘Health and Safety’? I’ll wager there’s maybe an involuntary eye-roll, or images in your head of jobsworth colleagues in a high-vis vest putting signs around a spillage. Of course, we all grudgingly recognise the role that Health...
There’s No Such Thing As An E-Lunch
“Not that way.” At the end of a brief meeting with a potential coaching client, I’d stood up to go for lunch with them, and headed for the door I’d been let in through. My error, apparently. “I thought we were going to lunch,” I said. “We are. I just don’t want to go...
