Practical Tips to Get Your To-Do List Under Control In some ways, I envy Frodo Baggins. The daring Hobbit, central to the iconic fantasy series The Lord of The Rings, had just one item on his to-do list: to get The One Ring to Mordor. One...
Does this sound familiar? You’re having a conversation with someone, or perhaps you are in a meeting, and someone says something that really gets under your skin. Before you realise it, you respond: maybe a little angrily or perhaps you say something that you later...
The Multitasking Myth: How multitasking ruins your productivity Do you think you can multitask or is the multitasking myth actually true? Most of us think we can of course. In fact some of the comments and questions I get on this subject in my personal productivity training are...
Manage Your Time Effectively | Plan Ahead & Be Your Own Boss How can you manage your time effectively? When you look at your diary/calendar, you will probably find that you have quite a deal of available time or unplanned time. In fact, very often I find...
Communicating more effectively using your MBTI Type Part 2 So in my previous article, I highlighted how understanding your Myers Briggs preference for either Sensing or iNtuition can affect the way you communicate with others. If you have not read the first article, you can do that...
Communicate effectively using MBTI Personality Type When we think of improving communication using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), most people immediately think of how differences in Introversion and Extraversion can affect how we communicate effectively with others. People don't immediately think of how the second set...
Good Coaching Questions for Managers to use with People If you are managing and leading people, learning the art of asking good coaching questions is a highly desirable and I’d say, an even necessary skill. Coaching someone to discover the answer rather than telling them the answer...
Create a To Do List to Improve Productivity In my personal productivity training, I often ask how many people habitually create a To Do List to help them manage their workload. The results vary with each group of course, but it is not uncommon to have...
Here Are The Do's and Don'ts when Juggling Priorities Well I don't mean literally of course, although perhaps it could help improve your mental sharpness...
Managing Delegated Tasks Using The 3C's One of the great challenges facing managers is constantly managing delegated tasks. In other words, getting work done effectively through others. Many managers are frustrated by the inability of some staff to manage their delegated tasks independently. They are constantly swamped...