by Miles Seecharan | 2 Nov 2017 | Horizons of Focus, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Weekly Review |
Since it’s been a year in which our public discourse has been dominated by preparations for Brexit, I’m expecting that ‘TRANSITION’ is going to be one of the words of the year next month when such things are announced. The psychologist Daniel Levinson reflected on...
by Robert Peake | 24 Oct 2017 | Organise, Podcast, Robert Peake's Blog, Todd Brown's Blog |
In this special podcast, GTD creator David Allen joins Todd Brown and Robert Peake to discuss how GTD supports wellbeing both in and outside the workplace. Click to play this episode Subscribe to the...
by Edward Lamont | 19 Oct 2017 | Ed Lamont's Blog, Employee engagement, Engage, Leadership, Organise, Stress and Wellbeing, Talent development, Team |
Imagine for a moment you work in an organisation where people no longer respond to their e-mail. One where it has become ‘normal’ to have to send messages two or three times – then pick up a phone and call people – to get a response on some issue you are working on....
by Todd Brown | 12 Oct 2017 | Employee engagement, Horizons of Focus, Stress and Wellbeing, Todd Brown's Blog |
In many organisations these days, wellness is ‘the new black’, a hot topic from board room to break room. In a recent report from the Economist Intelligence Unit, “The Wellness Effect – The Impact of Workplace Programmes”, the report’s authors found...
by Robert Peake | 10 Oct 2017 | Organise, Podcast, Robert Peake's Blog, Todd Brown's Blog |
In part two of this two-part series, Todd and Robert delve deeper into the practical aspects of supporting teams with GTD best practices. Click to play this episode Click here for Part I Subscribe to the...
by Miles Seecharan | 5 Oct 2017 | Capture, Clarify, Creativity, Employee engagement, Engage, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Reflect, Team, Weekly Review |
Last month my colleague Todd Brown blogged about Aristotle and GTD, and the topic must have jiggled loose some errant neural connections in my brain because later that day I found myself remembering a classic Monty Python sketch called the ‘International Philosophy...
by Robert Peake | 27 Sep 2017 | Horizons of Focus, Organise, Planning, Reflect, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing |
Being often in a hurry, millennials love to abbreviate. One of my favourites is “tl;dr” (too long; didn’t read). In case you’re a millennial reading this now, here’s the “tl;dr” version of this article: if you’re afraid...
by guest | 21 Sep 2017 | Blog, Capture, Clarify, Engage, Leadership, Organise, Planning, Stress and Wellbeing, Talent development |
Dr. Peer Wiethoff is the Foreign Trade Manager at NOKIA and has been a user of Getting Things Done® (GTD®) for over nine years. His journey with GTD revealed interesting benefits for him, even as a person who is already organised. Peer is now a certified GTD Trainer...
by Todd Brown | 14 Sep 2017 | Horizons of Focus, Reflect, Stress and Wellbeing, Todd Brown's Blog |
In the week that the latest iPhones were launched, I’d like to encourage you to take a mental journey back to classical Greece, for some helpful advice about modern life. Those of you who have been reading my blogs for a while will know that I’m a history buff, and in...
by Miles Seecharan | 7 Sep 2017 | Capture, Clarify, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Organise, Reflect |
The occasional thud you may have been hearing in the neighbourhood lately isn’t the sound of huge falling conkers but the sound of credit card statements hitting people’s mats. Yes – all that holiday fun coming home to roost. The flights, the hotel and that...
by Todd Brown | 5 Sep 2017 | Organise, Podcast, Robert Peake's Blog, Todd Brown's Blog |
In this episode, Todd and Robert talk about how GTD can dramatically improve organisational and team effectiveness. Click to play this episode Click here for Part II Subscribe to the...
by Robert Peake | 31 Aug 2017 | Reflect, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing, Weekly Review |
“Honey, I just realised – nothing is going to try to kill me out here.” My wife and I were ambling along one of England’s many public footpaths through gentle countryside. I agree it may sound like an unusual observation. But having come from...
by guest | 25 Aug 2017 | Blog |
A bit of light-hearted fun to celebrate National Dog Day, with GTD Heroes, Pro-Jake and Someday Mabel Em-bark on a furry, furry important journey with GTD expets, Jake and Mabel. MethoDogogy Are you still a caNINE, when you could be a caTEN? We’ll help you put the...
by Edward Lamont | 24 Aug 2017 | Capture, Clarify, Ed Lamont's Blog, Engage, Organise, Planning, Reflect |
Not everything in life – or even in GTD – can be illustrated using wood chopping as a metaphor, but it does seem to offer some helpful parallels. I noted some of them a few years back in a previous blog, but this year I noticed a few other lessons that translate well...
by Todd Brown | 17 Aug 2017 | Clarify, Organise, Stress and Wellbeing, Todd Brown's Blog |
“Just Do It” – Nike marketing slogan I did a quick search on Amazon this morning and found more than a dozen books with the phrase “Do It Now” in the title. These are books on eliminating procrastination, increasing effectiveness, and getting more done. The implied...
by Miles Seecharan | 10 Aug 2017 | Capture, Clarify, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Organise, Planning |
“They’re good for you.” <Sound of silence.> “You won’t get any dessert.” <Look of daggers.> “JUST EAT THEM!” It’s a familiar mealtime scenario. Children and parents in a stand-off over vegetables. Eventually, though, point-blank refusal turns to grudging...
by Todd Brown | 3 Aug 2017 | Organise, Podcast, Robert Peake's Blog, Todd Brown's Blog |
Todd and Robert discuss strategies for sustaining a GTD practice over the long term. Click to play this episode Subscribe to the...
by guest | 1 Aug 2017 | Blog, Clarify, Engage, Horizons of Focus, Organise, Planning, Reflect |
Gundula Welti is a certified GTD® Trainer and has 21 years of experience in both buying and sales roles within a large international corporation. She is highly specialised in sales and negotiations and uses GTD in all aspects of her life. She says that GTD helped her...
by Edward Lamont | 27 Jul 2017 | Ed Lamont's Blog, Leadership, Talent development, Team |
When a leader of a team or an organisation ‘gets’ GTD® for themselves, there is a desire – often felt as a burning need – to offer it to their wider team. The desire to pass it on can be altruistic (“this has been great for me, would be good if others had it too”),...
by guest | 20 Jul 2017 | Blog, Clarify, Engage, Horizons of Focus, Reflect, Stress and Wellbeing |
Tim Sismey first encountered GTD in 2006, and within a week of implementing his system he was sleeping better, making more informed decisions and delegating more effectively, whilst simultaneously more able to focus on his family, friends and his passions of music and...
by Stuart Corrigan | 12 Jul 2017 | Capture, Clarify, Organise, Planning, Stuart Corrigan's Blog |
Scott Walker (not his real name) is a good friend of mine. He has nine black belts. Note, they are not in Judo or some other martial art. They have been acquired as a result of arriving at a hotel, looking for a belt for his trousers, and realising that it was still...
by Miles Seecharan | 6 Jul 2017 | Clarify, Engage, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Reflect |
In his own words he looks like an accountant or a dentist, so how did an English gent from the Cotswolds become the undisputed world champion of the Reggae soundclash, a gladiatorial arena where DJs compete track-by-track to win the crowd, and only the brave survive?...
by guest | 29 Jun 2017 | Blog, Capture, Clarify, Engage, Horizons of Focus, Organise, Planning, Reflect, Stress and Wellbeing, Weekly Review |
James McBrien is Managing Director of Clearwater Advisers Ltd. Clearwater specialises in showing talented individuals how to be great communicators. We show people how to be natural when under pressure. As well as running individual and group coaching programmes we...
by Edward Lamont | 22 Jun 2017 | Capture, Clarify, Ed Lamont's Blog, Leadership, Organise, Stress and Wellbeing |
“I’m not seeing the benefit”. I’d been holding forth in a seminar on how to get clear on what all the new stuff that shows up each day means for you before getting stuck in to moving things forward, and the remark from one of my participants came as a surprise. Caught...
