by Miles Seecharan | 6 Aug 2020 | Employee engagement, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Working Standards |
“That looked painful” commented my colleague from the university library. We were chatting after the meeting I’d just been holding with my IT managers and although he’d not actually been part of it, he’d seen the strange behaviour of one of my team through the...
by Miles Seecharan | 20 Dec 2018 | Engage, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Organise, Planning |
Last Christmas I was given a gift so special I became teary-eyed. It was a book by my favourite author and inside the cover was a touching handwritten message from him to me. However, what I found even more remarkable about it, I realised only later, wasn’t the gift...
by Edward Lamont | 7 Nov 2018 | Capture, Clarify, Ed Lamont's Blog, Organise, Planning |
Near the end of a seminar someone will often say some version of the following: “I like the sound of what you are proposing, but I think it will be difficult”, in a tone that makes it clear that they feel it shouldn’t be. Here is my take: given the benefits GTD®...
by guest | 20 Feb 2018 | Blog, Capture, Clarify, Engage, Horizons of Focus, Leadership, Organise, Planning, Stress and Wellbeing, Talent development |
Alex Lee manages the strategic communications, planning and policy development for Library & Student Support Services at Sheffield Hallam University, leading a team of seven. Her role as Head of Management Services covers a broad range of service delivery for a...
by guest | 14 Dec 2017 | Blog, Career, Employee engagement, Leadership, Organise, Planning, Stress and Wellbeing, Talent development, Team |
Karly Edwards is a Senior Secretary at KPMG, and discovered GTD as part of an internal initiative for partners at the firm. She soon adopted GTD herself and has never looked back. I have worked at KPMG for 10 years as Senior Secretary, and for nine of those years I...
by guest | 20 Jul 2017 | Blog, Clarify, Engage, Horizons of Focus, Reflect, Stress and Wellbeing |
Tim Sismey first encountered GTD in 2006, and within a week of implementing his system he was sleeping better, making more informed decisions and delegating more effectively, whilst simultaneously more able to focus on his family, friends and his passions of music and...
by Edward Lamont | 20 Apr 2017 | Capture, Clarify, Ed Lamont's Blog, Organise, Stress and Wellbeing |
“That’s it?” It was expressed as a question, but if it had been written as dialogue there would definitely have been an exclamation point added, as in, “That’s it?!”. That is what he said out loud, but I heard from his tone that what he meant...
by Edward Lamont | 23 Mar 2017 | Capture, Ed Lamont's Blog, Organise, Planning |
Orson Welles was an astonishing talent. Famously brilliant, he produced, co-wrote, directed and acted the lead role in Citizen Kane, a film that won an academy award and has consistently topped the ‘all time best film’ lists in my lifetime. We can quibble about...
by Gundula Welti | 21 Mar 2017 | Blog, Capture, Clarify, Organise |
Gundula Welti is a certified GTD Trainer and has 21 years of experience in both buying and sales roles within a large international corporation. She is highly specialised in sales and negotiations and uses GTD in all aspects of her life. She says that GTD helped her...
by Miles Seecharan | 9 Mar 2017 | Career, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Talent development |
This week’s blog highlights Next Action Associate’s pro bono work in higher education and gives a few suggestions about how GTD might help if you’re a student (or if you know someone who is). Just around the corner from tonight’s gathering of the University of...
by Miles Seecharan | 12 Jan 2017 | Capture, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Organise, Planning, Reflect |
“Oh Dad! You promised!”, my son shouted through the Travelodge lobby at an hour that will not have gone down well for those with Boxing Day hangovers. He was not happy. He’d just discovered that there was no all-you-can-eat full English at the Epsom branch, just a...
by Edward Lamont | 23 Dec 2016 | Blog, Ed Lamont's Blog, Horizons of Focus, Organise, Planning, Stress and Wellbeing |
Somewhere in an office near you…. Mid-September – Office Christmas party invitation received today. Really? Christmas already? It was January just a few weeks ago. Speaking of which… still time to complete this year’s resolutions: lose 10kg (that ought to get...
by Robert Peake | 1 Dec 2016 | Blog, Capture, Clarify, Horizons of Focus, Organise, Planning, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing |
It’s that time of year when we start thinking about Christmas. For many, it’s not all red-nosed reindeer and fairy lights, however, because Christmas is in fact one of the most stressful times of the year – mostly due to the amount of planning that...
by Todd Brown | 20 Oct 2016 | Blog, Career, Employee engagement, Stress and Wellbeing, Todd Brown's Blog |
In our increasingly always-on, too-much-to-do, pay-attention-to-me-now world, it probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that stress in the workplace is on the up, but in a recent study we have some hard data to ponder. Stress was at the top of the list of health and...
by Robert Peake | 6 Oct 2016 | Blog, Clarify, Organise, Robert Peake's Blog |
“The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley.” -Robert Burns, “To a Mouse” It happens about once per seminar. During the practice session, where people are clarifying their project outcomes and next actions, a hand goes...
by Edward Lamont | 29 Sep 2016 | Blog, Ed Lamont's Blog, Horizons of Focus, Organise, Stress and Wellbeing |
I bumped into a former GTD participant earlier this week, and I could see from her body language that she wasn’t keen to see me. Initial pleasantries past, I found out why. “I’m off the wagon”, she said, sheepishly. “That’s great!” I countered. This did not seem to...
by Todd Brown | 22 Sep 2016 | Blog, Capture, Clarify, Organise, Reflect, Todd Brown's Blog |
It came to me, as many of my moments of inspiration do, when I was doing something completely unrelated. I was enjoying a beautiful walk in the hills with my wife last weekend, and it occurred to me: “we all have lots of things we need to do, our ‘open...
