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...
watch time: 18:16mins We are constantly faced with unexpected or unplanned work and it can become stressful and overwhelming. But it doesn’t have to be that way if you implement thees prioritisation...
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...
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...
watch time: 8:53 mins If you want to improve your effectiveness and productivity when working from home, make sure you have these 3 lists as part of your...
watch time: 10:37 mins It’s almost second nature to think of our digital world when we talk about the GTD methodology®, but let’s focus on all the physical...
watch time: 5:25 mins Sometimes our to do lists can become very overwhelming, but perhaps there is a simple trick you are missing in order to prioritise...
Your to-do list isn’t working as effectively for you as it could, and there’s a reason for that. There’s too much thinking still required in your lists to make stuff happen. Robert Peake, Getting Things Done® (GTD®) veteran, provides a life-changing...
When it comes to work, you can be as fast as you want to, because it’s all about efficiency. If you can reduce the friction in your working processes, you will inevitably work faster and with less effort, meaning that you’ll be more effective in what you...
Martin Weber, Chief Customer Architect, Oracle Consulting. Martin has been working at Oracle since June 2019 as Chief Customer Architect (CCA). Before joining Oracle he worked at Siemens for 12 years in various roles. Since discovering Getting Things Done® in 2015,...
I was flying out to Lisbon the other day, and noticed – yet again, with almost self-harm triggering frustration – just how crazy long it was taking to get us passengers onto the plane. To give them credit, the airline was going through the motions of making it faster,...
You know how sometimes recently the world seems to be upside down? Well for most of last weekend my world was upside down, and I’m not talking about the geo-political farrago that is our daily fare of late. I was in fact upside down, learning to do a free-standing...
Andrew Ward, Director of Optimum Advisory, is a business and HR leader, organisation development consultant, and amateur GTD® evangelist. He has worked in and for organisations large and small, multinational and domestic, in the UK and US and in industries including...
Imagine for a moment you work in an organisation where people no longer respond to their e-mail. One where it has become ‘normal’ to have to send messages two or three times – then pick up a phone and call people – to get a response on some issue you are working on....
“They’re good for you.” <Sound of silence.> “You won’t get any dessert.” <Look of daggers.> “JUST EAT THEM!” It’s a familiar mealtime scenario. Children and parents in a stand-off over vegetables. Eventually, though, point-blank refusal turns to grudging...
At some point when meeting new people, once we’ve passed the pleasantries and have moved on to occupations, I’ll have a stab at describing what I do for a living. When I’m less successful, I’ll hear a version of the following reply: “Oh, so you do time...
If you are reading this, you are like Novak Djokovic. At least a bit. You haven’t won a bunch of Grand Slams of course, but if you have subscribed to this newsletter you are clearly interested in improving your mastery of something. If you are different from Djokovic,...
