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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...
How The Oscars can teach us how to communicate
'And the award for best picture goes to…La La Land’. Oops! Many of you will remember the terrible gaffe at the 2017 Academy Awards where Warren Beatty and Faye ...