Team Productivity
Make meeting roles explicit
I was asked to attend a meeting with a new client recently to discuss the relevance of our productivity training for their team. The meeting invite was sent out by t...
The 25 Minute Meeting
My good friend and colleague Donna McGeorge has just published a new book that I can’t wait to share with you. It is called The 25 Minute Meeting and shows you h...
Think about where you store information
We have so much information to manage these days, and it can be hard to work out where to put it all. Most of us default to keeping our emails in folders in our mail...
The five-finger meeting evaluation
There is an old joke about meetings that I quite like. Not all meetings are bad – some of them are cancelled. Harsh, but funny. I write a lot about meetings in my ...
Make meetings count
One of the most common ways that we cause productivity friction in our team is through unnecessary and unproductive meetings. Not every meeting is unnecessary or unp...
Try making less noise
My upcoming book, Smart Teams is essentially about how we work together more productively, and how we reduce the friction we cause each other when we interact. One o...