Most of the popular advice about procrastination is frustratingly useless. "Just make a start." "Stop putting it off." "Grit your teeth". It's the productivity equivalent of telling someone who's anxious... read more →
Procrastination is one of those topics almost everyone relates to - and yet it's widely misunderstood. We use the word loosely, apply it to ourselves too harshly (or not harshly... read more →
Are you putting off a task or conversation you could easily do right now? Does glancing at your task list spark a feeling of dread? Are you trying not to... read more →
This is the second post in a series focusing on self-care and its role in our wellbeing at work. For a reminder of why self-care is so important, you can... read more →
The wonderful range of apps and productivity tools available to us represents a double-edged sword. With this impressive choice comes the challenge of evaluation, selection and implementation. And none of... read more →
The latest episode of our podcast represents the start of a new series focusing on coaching. We start with the very essential question: what is coaching? In the past, I shared... read more →
Why do we sometimes fail to make the progress on our personal development that we’d hoped? It may be that there’s a lot of good intentions, but insufficient action to... read more →
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 →
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 →
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 →