I have learnt that unless we make time for learning it never happens in a meaningful, capacity-building way. It is random, ad-hoc, unstructured, and therefore relatively unreliable. Truth is, most ‘On The Job Learning’ through daily ‘experience’ is not transformative. Most of us repeat patterns of thought and behaviour even [...]
‘The goal is not to work smarter – the goal is to work less and integrate work more successfully into the rest of our life’ Richard Maybury A handful of questions to remind you of some critical elements of Best Practice workload planning and management. What elements are you using? Every worthwhile [...]
I am excited and frightened scared-stiff at the prospect of presenting 20 PowerPoint slides for 20 seconds each to a group of people I don’t know in Guildford following a recent conversation with Simon Strong from Human Zoo . Simon says ‘Say what you need to say in six minutes and [...]
Is there a ‘Best Way’ to triage yourself out of email overload? You already have an email management approach for these situations, (you do, after all, have a good track record in delivering your results at work). You already know that you need to make priority decisions quickly on your emails so you [...]
Very few Business Networking meetings make it as a High Priority meeting in my Outlook Calendar. The excellent Shipley’s Godalming Breakfast Club does though – every month. The Partners and team at Shipleys provide an excellent resource for businesses like mine based around the Godalming and Guildford area of Surrey. It [...]
Now is probably a good time to future proof ourselves and investigate how we can work smarter and get our purpose and priority management in alignment. With the summer season upon us there might just be enough time to take our eye of fighting the alligators and take [...]
Life can be a roller coaster at times. Sometimes we are just about managing to juggle our competing priorities before they become conflicting priorities. Sometimes we are squeezed right up tight against a critical deadline. Other times we feel lost, cast adrift and long for the cut and thrust of [...]
The Dictionary defines Procrastination as 'Defer action .... be given to delay' At some time or other we are all inclined to procrastinate. Tell-tale signs are: When our in-box builds up When our Daily Task list is full of overdue items When we have 'things to do' that are not [...]
