by Edward Lamont | 18 Apr 2018 | Capture, Clarify, Ed Lamont's Blog, Organise, Uncategorized |
True story: A few months back, a well-dressed Italian woman in her early sixties walks into a local Sicilian cafe in search of a panettone for Christmas. Having surveyed a ceiling sagging under the weight of dozens of them, suspended from festive ribbons, she...
by Miles Seecharan | 5 Apr 2018 | Capture, Clarify, Engage, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Organise |
Are you lazy? If you’re reading this, probably not. As my colleague Todd Brown explains over on our YouTube channel, GTD® tends to attract people who are already motivated and successful. To paraphrase Steve Jobs, GTDers are usually folks who are looking to put a dent...
by Edward Lamont | 22 Mar 2018 | Capture, Clarify, Creativity, Ed Lamont's Blog, Organise |
I was at a dinner party recently where the conversation – implausibly – turned to ‘paperwork’. We’d exhausted topics like real-estate trends (luxury – in; affordable – out), our ongoing Circus Brexitus, and the ambient geo-political madness. Things had clearly gotten...
by guest | 20 Feb 2018 | Blog, Capture, Clarify, Engage, Horizons of Focus, Leadership, Organise, Planning, Stress and Wellbeing, Talent development |
Clare Ridall manages the strategic communications, planning and policy development for Library & Student Support Services at Sheffield Hallam University, leading a team of seven. Her role as Head of Management Services covers a broad range of service delivery for...
by Robert Peake | 1 Feb 2018 | Capture, Clarify, Organise, Planning, Robert Peake's Blog |
In their newfound enthusiasm for discovering the freedom and relief of getting everything out of their head, journeymen GTD® practitioners can fall into the trap of believing that small lists are inherently bad. Indeed, David Allen, creator of the Getting Things Done®...
by Gundula Welti | 25 Jan 2018 | Blog, Capture, Clarify, Creativity, Organise, Planning |
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 Miles Seecharan | 4 Jan 2018 | Capture, Clarify, Engage, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Organise, Planning, Reflect |
In the lull between the Christmas and New Year celebrations, one of the pleasures I usually find myself drawn to, other than leftover mince pies, is looking ahead at next year’s holiday possibilities in my calendar. It seems I’m not alone, either, since it’s a peak...
by Todd Brown | 8 Dec 2017 | Capture, Clarify, David Allen, Engage, Organise, Reflect, Todd Brown's Blog |
We’re deep into the season of office parties, mulled wine and mince pies here in London, and as the nights continue to draw in I find myself in a reflective mood. Around this time of year, I like to remind myself of the core ideas behind GTD®, by way of reaffirming my...
by guest | 30 Nov 2017 | Blog, Capture, Clarify, Organise, Planning, Stress and Wellbeing |
Rebecca Stevens is a Manchester-based psychologist. She is registered as a Practitioner Occupational Psychologist with the Health Professions Council and an Associate Fellow & Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society Division of Occupational...
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 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.” “You won’t get any dessert.” “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 acceptance and kids turn to two common tactics for...
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...
