Has this ever happened to you? You sit down with your task list on a Friday morning and realise that an item from Monday is still there. Or you look... read more →
I was delighted to be a guest on the 'Stories of Success' podcast recently, where I and Volker Ballueder discussed a range of topics, including coaching, people development and the... read more →
Can you believe it? We’re half-way through 2019! Yes, already. Time flies when you're having fun, right? And I do hope you're having a good year. That said, this also represents... read more →
Thursday saw me at the CIPD’s Festival of Work, participating in a session on the future skills required in an ‘age of automation’. Each of the five speakers in my... read more →
Think for a moment about the last time you felt a uncomfortable. Not the physical kind, but the psychological kind. What kind of discomfort was it? Was it embarrassment at... read more →
Late 2018 saw us introduce our new coaching proposition, which we call ‘Coach on Campus’. We developed it in response to the commonly held belief that coaching is only for... read more →
I'm delighted to speaking at an event hosted by the Psychological Society of Ireland next month. I'll be walking delegates through my 'Pillars of Productivity', a principles-led approach to improving... read more →
Does anyone else remember the scene in Monty Python’s ‘The Meaning of Life’, when the hospital administrator admires the new ‘Machine that goes Ping!’ in the operating theatre? A couple... read more →
A delegate on a recent coaching skills course I ran expressed some surprise that productivity might come up as a coaching topic. We had started talking about ‘time management’, but... read more →
I think it’s fair to say I never thought I’d be writing about ‘porn’ on this blog. But the phrase ‘productivity porn’ encapsulates a problem so well, I don’t think... read more →