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How to Fix Meetings with Think Productive UK
Join authors of the new book 'How to Fix Meetings' Graham Allcott and Hayley Watts in our free webinar. In this webinar they chat about what's wrong with meetings and share some top tips on how you can fix yours.
Pre-order their book (out 13th May 2021) here for more tips: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fixing-Meetings-Productivity-Ninja-Guide/dp/1785784757/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=how+to+fix+meetings&qid=1619710726&sr=8-2
Timestamps:
00:00 Hello and Welcome!
00:54 Common Problems With Meetings
04:32 The Importance of Attention
08:06 Designing a Productive Meeting
11:14 Challenges and Benefits of Virtual Meetings
12:38 Starting Meetings With Positivity
14:38 Why Meetings Need Purpose
17:55 Improve Focus and Energy levels
19:39 Listen to Everyone Equally
22:10 How to Keep Meetings Engaging
26:08 Follow Meetings With Action
28:53 Save Time With The 'Delete a Day' Challenge
30:35 Our Book and Available Workshops
Q&A:
32:49 Poor Engagement During Meetings
36:52 How Giving Feedback Supports the Chair
39:27 How to Prevent Rambling
40:42 How These Tips Work in the Public Sector
42:45 No Meeting Mondays
43:59 Overview of the Session
45:22 How Effective Are Stand Up Meetings
47:35 Approaching Managers About Meeting Organisation and Purpose
49:26 Meeting Resources
50:51 How To Improve Daily Meetings
53:41 Not Attending Meetings in Practice
56:01 How To Deal With Multiple Meetings
57:43 Software Recommendations
1:01:04 Dealing With Inefficiency After The Pandemic
1:03:29 Information on the 'Delete a Day' Challenge
1:04:39 How To Politely Leave a Meeting
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Duration: 1 hour, 8 minutes
Host: United Kingdom
Spoken Language: English
Struggle: What if we've got it all wrong about getting it wrong?
Grace Marshall talks us through some of the key messages from her new book called 'Struggle - The surprising truth, beauty and opportunity hidden in life’s shittier moments.'
Order your copy here: https://gracemarshall.com/struggle/
Connect with Grace on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gracemarshall/
Connect with Jess on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesslouisescott/
Timestamps:
00:00 Hello and Welcome!
00:59 The Role of Control in Struggle
04:00 How Failure Leads to Opportunity
11:37 The Cost of Avoiding Mistakes
20:24 Bringing Empathy and Connection into Conflict
26:08 Sometimes Things are Just Hard
30:35 A New Way of Thinking About Struggle
33:22 How to Find the Treasure Inside Struggle
36:00 How Working Through Conflict Improve Relationships
37:24 Grace's Experience of Struggle
38:40 How to Know When to Let Go of Fixing a Problem
39:42 Engaging Curiosity to Work Through Struggle
41:20 About 'Struggle' the Book
42:48 How to Promote Learning Rather Than Speed at Work
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Duration: 50 minutes
Host: United Kingdom
Spoken Language: English
Four Day Week: The Secret to a Happy Team... by Think Productive
For World Happiness Day, Elena Kerrigan and Jessica Scott from Think Productive, who have been running a Four Day Week since 2011 and discover how the 4DW will not only improve your team’s happiness and wellbeing but will actually be better for your bottom line too.
Timestamps:
00:00 The Benefits of a 4 Day Week
02:04 How the 4 Day Week has Benefitted Think Productive
04:02 The Think Productive 4 Day Week Model
04:55 The Results of Our 4 Day Week Model
06:24 Why an Extra Day Off Makes Such a Difference
11:36 Priceless Benefits of a 4 Day Week
14:04 How to Make Space for What Matters with Productivity
23:25 Think Productive Workshops to Support Your Productivity
26:02 The Practicalities of the Team Taking The Same Day Off
28:25 Reinforcing Your Boundaries with Colleagues on Days Off
30:20 How Does the 4 Day Week Work for Part-Timers
32:20 How Think Productive Implemented a 4 Day Week
33:51 What About a 3 Day Week?
35:24 How to Distribute Hours on a 4 Day Week
38:32 How to Reinforce the 4 Day Week in Your Organisation
39:36 Why Pay and Holiday Remains the Same on a 4 Day Week
40:37 How Handovers Have Improved on a 4 Day Week
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Duration: 44 minutes
Host: United Kingdom
Spoken Language: English
How to make your email life suck less... with Think Productive
Grace and Hayley share insights and ideas on how you can change your relationship with email.
Timestamps:
00:00 Hello and Welcome!
01:10 What's the Problem with Email?
03:00 Email is a Constant Distraction at Work
05:40 How Email Lowers Your IQ
06:25 Why Email is Not the Most Valuable Communication Tool
09:27 Why You Need to Implement Tools other than Email
13:45 Why You Need to Turn Off Your Email Notifications
15:10 How to Batch-Check Your Email
19:46 How to Change the Culture Around Email
22:41 Why You Need a Comms Manifesto
25:02 How to Manage Expectations around Email
29:25 Why Switching Off Your Email is Essential
32:22 How to Get Your Inbox to Zero course
34:20 Tips on How to Clear Your Inbox
35:15 How to Manage an Email-Heavy Workplace
36:46 How to Deal With Comms Duplication
37:33 Filing Old Emails into an Email Attic
38:23 Don't Use Email as Your To-Do List
39:04 Managing a Shared Inbox in a Shift System
41:03 Tips, Questions and Answers on Managing Email
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Duration: 1 hour, 1 minute
Host: United Kingdom
Spoken Language: English
How to Have the Energy: Nutrition for your Brain
Productivity and nutrition experts Graham Allcott and Colette Heneghan present a new way to think about what you eat: the Productivity Ninja way. Learn how eating well can fit in your lifestyle, resulting in more focus and energy for doing the work that matters.
Timestamps:
00:00 Hello and Welcome!
01:31 About Colette Heneghan from Optimum Living
05:50 The High Energy Plan
08:48 Choose How You Want to Feel
10:50 Invest in Your Afternoon by Taking Lunch
12:20 Your Judgement is Impaired When You Don't Eat
16:09 No Screens While You Eat
16:46 Why You Shouldn't Eat Food with Big PR Teams
19:18 Why You Need to Eat The Rainbow
21:27 How to Make Your Plate High Energy
27:53 How to be Label Savvy with Your Food
30:37 How to Buy the Book 'How To Have the Energy'
33:45 How Can Vegetarians Get their Omegas?
37:20 How Affordable is Being Label Savvy?
39:28 What is Cold-Pressed Oil Good for?
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Duration: 42 minutes
Host: United Kingdom
Spoken Language: English
Gain Control of Your Day with Think Productive North America
Barbara Green, President of Think Productive North America, talks about how to be more productive using daily habits that protect and manage your attention, not your time.
Timestamps:
00:00 Hello and Welcome!
03:00 Manage your focus, not your time
05:30 Your Attention and Focus is Finite
07:54 Ninjas Do Not Multi-task activity
13:20 Multi-tasking Drains Focus
14:34 Tools to Organise and Manage Tasks
16:44 Why You DO Need a System
19:46 Stop Checking your Emails in the Morning
22:09 Tackle Your Most Difficult Task First
25:06 Understanding Your Energy Levels Throughout the Day
27:36 Plan for Your Energy Levels
30:07 Task Quality Versus Speed
31:30 Draw Triangles activity
37:18 Q&A
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Duration: 40 minutes
Host: United Kingdom
Spoken Language: English
How to Stop Procrastinating...Tomorrow! with Think Productive
Graham Allcott and Lee Cottier dicuss how to confront your procrastination habit by breaking down the tasks you can't stop putting off into simple, achievable goals.
Learn how to manage your attention for the best results and how to give yourself space for what matters.
Timestamps:
00:00 Hello and Welcome!
01:37 What is Procrastination?
03:33 Why We Procrastinate
06:27 How To Understand Why You're Procrastinating
10:13 What is a Second Brain and Why Do You Need One?
14:18 The Difference Types of Attention and How to Manage Them
17:04 How to Use the Pomodoro Technique to Stop Procrastination
19:16 Why You Need to Eat That Frog
22:00 Morning Rituals to Help Stop Procrastination
25:01 How to Have Good Focus using Apps and Digital Strategies
28:06 How a Weekly Checklist and Review Helps with Procrastination
29:40 Intrinsic Vs. Extrinsic Motivation
33:48 Appreciate What You've Done, Not Just What Have Left To Do
36:08 How Think Productive Can Help You Stop Procrastinating
41:54 How to Get Your Inbox to Zero When You Have Years of Emails
43:00 How to Make the Time to Review Your To Do List
43:48 How to Reframe Your Personal Expectations to Avoid Presenteeism
48:29 How to Stay Focused on Work When Working From Home
51:41 How to Get Your Work Done When Waiting on Input from Someone Else
59:05 Procrastination Vs. Writer's Block
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Duration: 1 hour, 3 minutes
Host: United Kingdom
Spoken Language: English
The Productivity Ninja's Guide to Working From Home (45-min taster & extended Q&A)
Graham Allcott & Grace Marshall discuss the pros and cons of working from home and share tips on how you can stay agile, focussed and productive from your kitchen table.
This is a 45 minute taster of our full 90 minute in-house workshop, which includes live interaction & action planning so that your team is ready to make positive changes right away. More info at https://thinkproductive.com.
Timestamps:
00:00 Welcome and Hello!
02:40 The Common Pitfalls of Working from Home
07:47 How to Get Started When Working from Home
13:10 How to Get Good Work
18:40 Managing Your Attention
28:18 Why You Need to Take Your Lunch Break
38:42 Dealing With Uncertainty in Work and Life
43:42 The Hidden Benefits of Working From Home
45:52 What to do at the End of Your Day to Help with Work/Life Balance
53:32 How to Find a Suitable Space to Work from at Home
55:20 Managing Your Kids While Working from Home
57:14 How Think Productive Can Help Your Work from Home Team
01:03:21 Book Recommendations for Work from Home Productivity
01:04:46 How To Keep on Top of Updating Your Second Brain
01:06:19 How To Keep Motivated for Work During Difficult Times
01:11:41 Why Working From Your Bed isn't a Good Idea
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Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes
Host: United Kingdom
Spoken Language: English
How to Say 'No' at Work with Think Productive
Do you struggle say ‘No’ at work? Do you find it hard to set yourself boundaries? Join Graham Allcott and Jessica Scott who will help you discover the magic of protecting your time and attention by learning to say ‘no’ at work.
Put politely and professionally – ‘no’ will become your new favourite word.
Timestamps:
00:00 Hello and Welcome!
03:01 Problems that Arise When You Feel Overwhelmed
09:47 Recommended Apps to Reduce Overwhelm at Work
11:18 How to be Ruthless when Prioritising Your Time
17:15 How to Stop People Pleasing at Work
20:25 Examples of How to Say No at Work
24:17 Saying No to Meetings at Work
27:26 Why Saying No with Compassion Works
29:47 Problems that Arise When You're Too Enthusiastic
32:00 Give Yourself Permission to Say No to Yourself
35:37 Recognising your Limitations at Work
37:00 How Think Productive Can Help Your Team Say No at Work
39:56 Forest Vs. Pomodoro for Focus
40:24 How to Say No Beautifully
42:05 How to Deal with People Who Won't Take No for an Answer
44:44 Tips on Saying No in a Healthcare Setting
48:03 How to Say No to Your Manager/Boss
50:01 How to Make Systemic Changes When You're Just One Person
52:42 How to Stop Your Boss Volunteering You for Work You're Too Busy For
54:18 How to React when Someone Says No to Something You're Excited About
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Duration: 56 minutes
Host: United Kingdom
Spoken Language: English
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