Dermot Crowley

When your preference becomes someone else’s problem

In a recent online presentation, one participant challenged me on the need to separate their filing system from their Inbox. You see, their preference was to just le...

Moments of Impact

I know you are busy, but I want you to take a moment and do a quick exercise for me. Have a look at your schedule for the coming week. Then look at your task list f...

The role of a leader in training

If you are a people leader, how do you show up to training with your team? At Adapt, we only run in-house training – that is, we run the training for groups withi...

My definition of productivity

I have been running personal and team productivity training for almost twenty years. Recently, a client asked me to run some training for their team, but they asked ...

Try not to waste group time

Today I wasted 1,000 minutes of other people’s time! That is 16.66 hours of collective time. Two full working days! I feel bad about this, even though it was out o...