How To Save Reading Time
5 June 2013Smart people don’t retain information they have no immediate need for. In a coaching call once with Ross Richards, he said, ‘I’d like to work on my planning techniques now. I don’t feel I have good management in that area.’ ‘Do you remember what I wrote about in the April and May issues?’ I asked. […]
The subtle shift in attitude that means success or failure with our goals
7 May 2013I picked up a great distinction last week from a participant. Tam from the NZ Rural General Practice Network in Wellington had this to say in regard to achieving our goals: ‘We might WANT something, but until we have an INTENTION, nothing will happen.’ Think about when you want to lose weight, or get fit, […]
How To Save Money While Training The Kids!
24 April 2013It was a sunny Monday morning, May 1998. Kate and I were planning our next client newsletter. She was one of my two part-time assistants and the one who assisted with marketing activities. She turned to me and said: ‘Robyn, you’re wasting money with our newsletter.’ I looked at her in alarm. After all, everyone […]
Who To Delegate To, Even When You’ve Got No-One
4 April 2013The comments to my last article about delegation hit the nail very firmly on the head. One reader said: ‘The biggest problem with this scenario is that before you can delegate you need to have someone to delegate to.’ And this was answered very well by: ‘The step to employing someone is the hardest step […]
Take the pressure off – cut yourself some slack in your time commitments
5 December 2012Louise Trowbridge attended one of our Breakfast Club sessions in Christchurch a few months ago and reports that she’s been managing her time and tasks a lot better lately. She then went on to share a really good strategy: “Among other things, we hire caravans for accommodation in Christchurch. [A great post-earthquake solution to the […]
Without health we don’t have the energy to maximise time
14 November 2012Dr Libby Weaver, author of best-seller ‘Accidently Overweight’ has recently released ‘The Rushing Woman’s Syndrome’. At first I assumed, by the title, that it had to do with time management. Instead, it’s about the biochemical, emotional and health effects of always being in a hurry – and how to change that sense of being constantly […]
The Pink Ribbon Calendar – a MUST BUY
8 October 2012Do you enjoy different and unique art? Do you love stories of courage against all odds? And do you have any friends or family impacted by breast cancer? (1 in 9 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in their life time.) If you’ve answered ‘yes’ to any one of these questions, I urge you […]
An office survival tactic I don’t recommend!
28 September 2012Here’s a novel way of managing an overloaded desk – clogged with debris, paperwork, files ….. a town tip, in other words. Last night, as I was speaking to the Canterbury branch of NZ Organisation for Quality, member Ailsa Milner shared this story. ‘I once worked for a man who had terrible paper management habits. […]
Stacey’s simple stress-reducer
18 September 2012I’ve been working with Stacey* for a couple of months as her productivity coach. She’s the GM of a successful company in the engineering field. She used to be a big list maker. Often she’d have five pages of items ‘to do’ – but hardly anything got done and the lists just got longer. Result? […]
Get Faster, Work Better – By Doing Things Differently
2 August 2012What do I mean? I learnt something very interesting last night. I was MC for the National Speakers Association of NZ’s National Awards and had the pleasure of listening to our guest speaker Wade Jackson, a Double World Champion of Improv and founder of New Zealand’s Improv Bandits and Covert Theatre. One of his points, […]