Apr
04
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 personal productivity. We've been covering these principles on 'My Pocket Psych' in recent months, so anyone who's been listening will...
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Mar
06
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 of recent, accidental activations of my desktop Amazon Echo in the office (thanks, Alexa) got me thinking about all the...
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Feb
28
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 quickly broadened the discussion to a more inclusive productivity theme. The inference was that if someone couldn’t manage their time,...
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Feb
13
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 it can be avoided. There’s a certain kind of client I come across from time to time, whose knowledge of...
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Jan
24
Last week, I was quoted in an FT article about social media use at work. I sometimes brace myself to see how my interviews are portrayed 'in print', but this time I was pleased with the overall tone of the article. For me, there were a few key points in...
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Jan
24
In episode 32 of 'My Pocket Psych' we discussed the importance of purpose and meaning when it comes to productivity. In our model of the 'Pillars of Productivity', Purpose represents the 'why' of our work. Starting with a question? Right now, you might be thinking "Wait a minute - isn't...
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Jan
03
It's the time of year when so many of us commit to making some changes in our lives, signing up for a New Year's resolution. But we all know how unlikely we are to stick at those (some studies estimate the percentage of successful resolution-keepers is in the single digits),...
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Dec
21
I’m delighted to announce a new departure for WorkLifePsych, in cooperation with our friends at WiseAmigo. Starting next month, we’re launching a new meetup group in London, focused on personal development at work. Paul Smith and I will be co-facilitating a series of workshops where we’ll review the common topics...
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Dec
11
It's all too easy to picture luxury flights and hotels, delicious meals and nights out in exotic locations when we discuss business travel. But as our recent podcast episode highlighted, business travel is often far from glamorous and can actually negatively impact our wellbeing. We were lucky to be joined...
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Dec
10
It’s that time of year when we take stock and think about the year gone by - and start to make plans for the year ahead. And while it can be tempting to leap into new ways of doing things or to commit to massive life changes, without some planning...
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