by Edward Lamont | 13 Jun 2019 | Ed Lamont's Blog, Employee engagement, Leadership, Team, Working Standards |
“Hell is other people.” – Jean-Paul Sartre Have you ever wished ‘they’ would get GTD®? Ever thought that it would all be so much easier if your colleagues would finally pull up their socks and start being a bit more like your very fine and virtuous self? If so,...
by guest | 22 May 2018 | Capture, Clarify, Employee engagement, Leadership, Organise, Planning, Talent development, Team |
Andrew Ward, Director of Optimum Advisory, is a business and HR leader, organisation development consultant, and amateur GTD® evangelist. He has worked in and for organisations large and small, multinational and domestic, in the UK and US and in industries including...
by Edward Lamont | 22 Feb 2018 | Clarify, Ed Lamont's Blog, Employee engagement, Engage, Leadership, Talent development, Working Standards |
In the second blog in this series, we looked at how you might get a sense of what the current reality around working standards is in your team or organisation. If that exercise – of uncovering current standards – highlighted the need for change, what to do...
by guest | 14 Dec 2017 | Blog, Career, Employee engagement, Leadership, Organise, Planning, Stress and Wellbeing, Talent development, Team |
Karly Edwards is a Senior Secretary at KPMG, and discovered GTD as part of an internal initiative for partners at the firm. She soon adopted GTD herself and has never looked back. I have worked at KPMG for 10 years as Senior Secretary, and for nine of those years I...
by Edward Lamont | 19 Oct 2017 | Ed Lamont's Blog, Employee engagement, Engage, Leadership, Organise, Stress and Wellbeing, Talent development, Team, Working Standards |
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 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 Robert Peake | 2 Feb 2017 | Clarify, Organise, Planning, Robert Peake's Blog |
Sometimes simple questions can provoke profound responses. Take, for example, the question, “Is this your project?”. Most busy professionals, once they have built a trusted GTD system to manage all their commitments, end up with upwards of fifty projects...
by Edward Lamont | 29 Sep 2016 | Blog, Ed Lamont's Blog, Horizons of Focus, Organise, Stress and Wellbeing |
I bumped into a former GTD participant earlier this week, and I could see from her body language that she wasn’t keen to see me. Initial pleasantries past, I found out why. “I’m off the wagon”, she said, sheepishly. “That’s great!” I countered. This did not seem to...
by Todd Brown | 22 Sep 2016 | Blog, Capture, Clarify, Organise, Reflect, Todd Brown's Blog |
It came to me, as many of my moments of inspiration do, when I was doing something completely unrelated. I was enjoying a beautiful walk in the hills with my wife last weekend, and it occurred to me: “we all have lots of things we need to do, our ‘open...
by Miles Seecharan | 18 Aug 2016 | Blog, Capture, Miles Seecharan's Blog, Organise |
It’s a sun-filled summer afternoon and you’re strolling happily down the street when a flash of light catches your eye from pavement ahead. You instinctively tell yourself it’s probably just shiny litter but your eyes linger, widen and then sparkle with delight. Yes,...
by Robert Peake | 7 Jul 2016 | Organise, Planning, Reflect, Robert Peake's Blog, Weekly Review |
Like so many of us, I have a love-hate relationship with the alarm clock on my phone. I often hate how early it wakes me up, but of course love that it does so reliably. Like the bookmark, whose simple virtues I extolled in a previous article, the alarm clock is...
by Todd Brown | 22 Oct 2014 | Blog |
When it comes to making things happen, does your world look like this? Things that need your attention arrive. Some are generated by other people and appear without any effort on your part, like email, or your friends’ Facebook posts. Other things that grab your...
by Edward Lamont | 3 Sep 2012 | Blog, Ed Lamont's Blog |
August is done, but–as I try to catch the wave of work here in September–I’m feeling a tinge of nostalgia for the month just past. August means many things for me, and one of them is that it’s Tool Shed Month. Pretty much every August for the...
