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 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 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 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 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 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...
by Todd Brown | 14 Jun 2017 | Capture, Clarify, Organise, Stress and Wellbeing, Talent development, Todd Brown's Blog |
Do you ever have days where your work is driven by your email inbox, where you’re constantly replying to emails – barring the odd meeting or a hurried lunch at your desk? With the average office worker receiving around 70 emails a day, it’s no surprise that the...
by Stuart Corrigan | 8 Jun 2017 | Capture, Clarify, Engage, Stuart Corrigan's Blog |
When setting out to do work, how we define our projects and tasks has a huge impact on whether we’ll make good choices in terms of doing the right thing, keep working, overcoming procrastination and even simply getting started. This is an actual (sic) transcription of...
by Miles Seecharan | 1 Jun 2017 | Capture, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Organise, Planning, Team |
Fifteen minutes into the meeting my former colleague’s eyelids had become heavy. Soon after, they drooped, fluttered, then gently closed. Yet despite the circle of smirking faces around the conference room table, nobody said a word. The elephant in the room could have...
by Robert Peake | 25 May 2017 | Capture, Engage, Organise, Planning, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing |
Artificial intelligence has made impressive gains in our time. That said, I am still more excited by the possibilities of the human mind. In particular, I am interested in how our vast collective investment in thinking about how to train computers to adapt and solve...
by davidgriffin | 23 May 2017 | Blog, Capture, Organise |
Someone once explained to me how to think about computer backups. She said “every night when you turn off your computer, just think what would happen with your data if the hard disk died and the computer simply wouldn’t start up again the next day”. Once you start to...
by Miles Seecharan | 4 May 2017 | Capture, Clarify, Horizons of Focus, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing |
I’m a rambler from Manchester way I get all me pleasure the hard moorland way I may be a wage slave on Monday But I am a free man on Sunday ~ Ewan MacColl (from ‘The Manchester Rambler’) On a glorious spring morning last Friday, under a radiance of blue skies, a...
by Robert Peake | 26 Apr 2017 | Capture, Career, Clarify, Robert Peake's Blog |
On April 21st, 1918 Manfred von Richtoven, ‘The Red Baron’, was shot and killed by an anti-aircraft bullet. Considered the greatest flying ace of his time, he had made a rookie mistake by flying too low into enemy territory. It was a mistake he himself...
by Edward Lamont | 20 Apr 2017 | Capture, Clarify, Ed Lamont's Blog, Organise, Stress and Wellbeing |
“That’s it?” It was expressed as a question, but if it had been written as dialogue there would definitely have been an exclamation point added, as in, “That’s it?!”. That is what he said out loud, but I heard from his tone that what he meant...
by Miles Seecharan | 6 Apr 2017 | Capture, Creativity, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Organise, Stress and Wellbeing |
“Have you heard a word that I’ve said? It’s like your body is here, but you’re not.” Mike had been caught bang to rights with his mind elsewhere on date night at his favourite restaurant. Fortunately, the lady eyeballing him over the bread rolls was his wife so,...
by Robert Peake | 30 Mar 2017 | Capture, Clarify, Organise, Robert Peake's Blog, Stress and Wellbeing, Uncategorized |
“Ready when you are!”, I hollered. My wife looked back at me and sighed, “We’re nowhere near ready to go.” “Sure we are!”, I beamed, holding up my personal packing list, each item carefully ticked. I was, after all, a faithful...
by Edward Lamont | 23 Mar 2017 | Capture, Ed Lamont's Blog, Organise, Planning |
Orson Welles was an astonishing talent. Famously brilliant, he produced, co-wrote, directed and acted the lead role in Citizen Kane, a film that won an academy award and has consistently topped the ‘all time best film’ lists in my lifetime. We can quibble about...
by guest | 21 Mar 2017 | Blog, Capture, Clarify, Organise |
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 Todd Brown | 16 Feb 2017 | Capture, Organise, Todd Brown's Blog |
From the outside the restaurant looks promising, and you’re hungry. You get a table and the waiter brings the menu. You have a browse. A few things look OK, but you’re not really that up for anything on offer. With a sigh, you order something that looks acceptable but...
by Todd Brown | 19 Jan 2017 | Capture, Engage, Stress and Wellbeing, Todd Brown's Blog |
If you’ve ever been in a speedboat, or seen one on video, you may have experienced that magic moment when, as the boat accelerates, it reaches a “planing” state. Once up on a plane, the boat skims over the surface of the water rather than ploughing through it....
by Miles Seecharan | 12 Jan 2017 | Capture, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Organise, Planning, Reflect |
“Oh Dad! You promised!”, my son shouted through the Travelodge lobby at an hour that will not have gone down well for those with Boxing Day hangovers. He was not happy. He’d just discovered that there was no all-you-can-eat full English at the Epsom branch, just a...
by Miles Seecharan | 8 Dec 2016 | Capture, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Organise, Stress and Wellbeing |
We don’t usually see delegates bursting with frustration in our GTD seminars but in one of my former lives it was a sign that a workshop was hitting the mark. That life involved readying business-people for international assignments and the card game ‘Barnga’ was a...
by guest | 4 Dec 2016 | Blog, Capture, Clarify, Organise, Planning |
David Griffin is a senior consultant at Cambridge based 42 Technology, which offers pragmatic engineering innovation, design and development services to clients in a range of industries. He first started with GTD in 2003, when Palm Pilot devices were no longer cool...
