When it comes to the 'Define Purpose' or 'Decide Strategy' or 'Continuous Improvement' or 'Creative Thinking' elements of my #WP2P approach to total workload management, we often need to think outside the box in order to come up with a solution to a situation. The challenge is that we [...]
You are using Microsoft Outlook within Office 365 and you created a customised To-Do Bar in your Calendar and Inbox so that you can see your prioritised To-Dos and Tasks and all of a sudden from February 2019 your To-Do Bar says 'We didn't find anything to show here'. [...]
The other day I attended a Hubris Forum hosted by The Surrey Business School at the University of Surrey and facilitated by Professor Eugene Sadler-Smith. Some people suggest that we are at 'Peak Hubris' and that Hubris' time has come around again. Certainly the new millennium has presented us [...]
My friend Debra Levitt recently interviewed me for her podcast show: Bridging Gaps-The Business Podcast. She is good at this. She got me talking about things I don't usually share. Before I knew it, 80 minutes flew past and I shared a ton of stuff. She decided not to edit [...]
It’s happened 3 times now since last Friday – and that’s why I’m compelled to write this today. It cropped up in a business networking conversation about misattribution and within 2 client engagements this week focusing on ‘Engagement and collaboration’ and ‘Purposeful Productivity’. It is about putting leadership focus [...]
Recently I was a speaker, representing myself and the Institute of Directors, on a panel at the opening session of the #WeAreSurrey2018 conference with Surrey County Council. The theme of the session was ‘Is social value good for business?’. The clear consensus was that #Socialvalue is indeed good for [...]
‘We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe. We are stronger and more resourceful than we know, and we can endure much more than we think we can’ On the 5th September 2003 the American illusionist, David Blaine, stepped into a Perspex box, to be suspended from [...]
Microsoft Outlook turned 21 on 16th November 2017. Birthdays and anniversaries are a good time to reflect on the past, rejoice in the present and re-appraise the future. Perhaps now would be a good time to look again at how you are managing yourself, your workload and the results you [...]
When I support clients in working smarter on their critical results and competing priorities I inevitably help them use technology smarter as well. Microsoft Office365 and Outlook are particularly important tools for my clients. Office365 is constantly being updated and extended and sometimes those updates [...]
On 15th November 2017 the IoD and the CIPD will be hosting a joint conference on 'Growth Through Talent Planning' in the Guildford Harbour Hotel between 07:00 and 10:30. Tickets cost £25, reduced to £15 for IoD and CIPD members. I have set out 7 reasons why I think it [...]
