Posts for tag: productivity

4 ways to instantly improve your communication

Poor communication can lead to misunderstandings on priorities, work deadlines, and a whole host of other problems.

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Feedback Fatigue – Is Just One Question Best?

Requests for feedback into my inbox have risen considerably recently. Invariably an email or a text will request my opinion for a product, service or even just a single phone call! This is frustrating and ironically can turn me off the organisation concerned.

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2 Steps to Overcoming the Time Poor Trap

More than ever it seems that increasing numbers of us are overwhelmed by an ever-growing and never-ending to-do list.

Just as we seem to get some time to catch up, urgent requests pings into our inbox and yet another well-intentioned day is high-jacked. For many of us, this has become our normal state, thereby creating more urgent requests as critical tasks slip through, only to pop up again a few days later as urgent priorities.

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Stop Working, Start Storytelling

Movies, plays, novels, even jokes are forms of storytelling and EVERYONE loves them. There were two brothers, one adored opera, his brother loved pantomime. Different genres, both with stories at their core, there’s not a person alive who doesn’t enjoy a good story, though we may differ in our preferred style of storytelling.

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Dare to be Fair – The Secret to Awesome Leadership?

Whilst at the helm of GE, Jack Welch would famously slice the bottom 10% of managers each year. Apple openly charge consumers high prices, generating enormous margins. In most organisations men are paid more than women for equivalent work. Surely the key to success in business is profit, but it seems that profit comes from treating some people unfairly?

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Feeling Overwhelmed? 6 Ways to Overcome this

Do you find that the more time saving devices and strategies you adopt, the more responsibility you take on? 20 years ago we looked forward to ‘Tomorrow’s World’ in which we’d have less to do and more time to relax. Reality is very different for many.
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5 Steps to Better Meetings

Do you find that some meetings sap your energy, achieve little and leave you feeling frustrated? It shouldn’t be this way. Why is it we can sit still for two hours watching a play or movie and be fully engaged yet find a 1 hour meeting tedious? Try these steps for better meetings.
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5 Unusual Employee Perks

It’s increasingly important to give staff more than just a pay cheque, not every business can afford health cover so here are some unique employee perks that needn’t break the bank.

1. Stand up desks
The revolution to get employees off their backsides and upright is well underway and those who have made a stand say there is no going back.
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5 Ways to Get More Done Without Working Harder

It can feel sickening to reach 6pm and see a largely incomplete task list. What happened to those good intentions that we had first thing in the morning?

Here are just 5 of many techniques used by the most productive people we’ve worked with:
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8 Daily Habits of Successful Leaders

If your inbox and meeting schedule is dominating your working life here are some habits adopted by successful leaders that enable them to retain a fresh perspective and intellectual edge.

1. Get out in the field – Management by walking about tends to illicit far more accurate information than reports and spreadsheets. At Pret a Manger each member of head office staff has a buddy store where they regularly spend a day making sandwiches and listening to staff on the front line. …