Can teens learn time management?
17 May 2012Angela has sent in a great request. ‘Great to get some practical tips as a parent. Do you have any tips for a teenager who is lacking in time management? I would like to empower her with some skills rather than continually nag or comment on her lack of time management! She seems reluctant to […]
More About Time Management For Parents
11 May 2012Thanks for so many great responses to my request for your best Time Saving Tips for Parents a selection of which appear below. (Check the previous post) From Deborah: Get rest. Sounds counter productive to getting things done but a rested, fit and healthy mother can work harder than a tired one. New baby? When baby […]
Teachers' Time-Saving Tips, and Bureaucracy Highlights
5 October 2011Here are some top time tips to get students to return newsletter and permission slips asap: Encourage a ‘rewards’ system so that the children take responsibility for returning them the next day – an end of term tally perhaps? (NO punishments though!) Mention what is required in the weekly newsletter, with a due date. Replies […]
The Obituary To Common Sense
24 August 2011Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Mr Common Sense. Mr Sense had been with us for many years. No one knows for sure how old he was since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such value lessons as knowing […]
Easy Steps To Cleaning Up The Mess!
18 July 2011Does your desk breed paper every time you turn your back on it? Layer upon layer of miscellaneous paper, magazines, newsletters, invitations to this and that, reports, files and vital tasks you mustn’t forget to attend to? Every couple of weeks, with grim determination and fired by a sense of desperation, do you approach this monstrosity supposed […]
What Can We Learn From Ghandi and Ghengis Khan?
5 July 2011Some years ago I presented at a Johnson and Johnson New Leaders Forum in Auckland. One of the other speakers was Mick Yates, at the time a very senior executive with J&J Asia/Pacific. He’s now back in England and has one of the world’s top sites on leadership – http://www.leader-values.com/. This blog’s lead article is an excerpt […]
Does Your Organisation Overuse Email?
21 June 2011Just because we can send an email doesn’t mean we should! Here’s an example – The planning team of a large institution often work on large collaborative projects. This often requires input from all members. They had been in the habit of sending emails to all members of the team for input and contributions. […]
A Meeting Room Is No Place For Phones
7 June 2011A very large international IT company asked for a course on ‘How to run effective meetings’. It was the weirdest session I’ve ever run; a brilliant example of how not to run meetings. The trouble was, the CEO had a different work ethic to the rest of the company. She’d been sent to Australia from the States to […]
Do We Give Ourselves Enough Parenting Time?
3 May 2011Ever noticed that if you focus on a strong desire something relevant almost always happens? (Time-saving tip – be clear on your objectives and you’re more likely to get them!) On a professional trip to Singapore I’d woken up in the beautiful Grand Waterfront Copthorne hotel thinking, ‘I want to learn something new so I […]
Work/Life Balance – A Quick Tip
22 October 2010Work/life balance is more than just a concept. But I know as well as any how hard it can be to fulfill the “life” side of the equation when work commitments have you in the office until all hours. There is something you can do about it though. When you take on a new job, […]