Is your New Year’s Resolution to increase your personal productivity? Practical advice to turn an average workday into an incredibly productive day. . .

1. Let everyone know

Interruptions destroy focus and kill productivity. So are the guilt trips your family “sometimes unintentionally” lay on you. Let colleagues and family know you’re planning a “project day.” Tell key customers too. Announce you will be tied up on, say, Tuesday, and that you will respond to calls and emails on Thursday. Let people know who to contact in an emergency. Some will get with you before Tuesday, and the rest will make a mental note you’re not available. In either case, you’re covered.

Plus you get the “peer pressure” benefit: When you tell people you plan to finish a project you will be more likely to see the job through. Peer pressure can be positive motivation harness it.

2. Set a target

Don’t plan your project day based on fuzzy parameters like, “I will stay at it as long as possible,” or, “I won’t leave until I no longer feel productive.” Those approaches give you an easy out. Commit to working for as long as you estimate it will take. Pick a number.

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Young Business Person of the Year Award

Rebecca Watson, HR Adviser at our sister company Total HR has been shortlisted for The Benchmark Recruit Young Business Person of the Year Award at the Sheffield Business Awards.

The nomination alone is a great achievement for Rebecca and we wish her the very best of luck!

Rebecca is one of three finalists to have been shortlisted for the award organised by Sheffield Chamber of Commerce (in association with First For Business magazine). The awards are designed to recognise and reward Sheffield city region business success and award categories are refreshed each year to reflect the regions expertise and skills.

We’ll keep you posted!

Helen

Keeley joins the t-three team…

We are really pleased to announce that Keeley Addison has joined the t-three team this month as a Principle Consultant.

As with all our consultants, Keeley brings a huge amount of energy and passion for working with individuals, teams and organisations to help them change, grow and succeed.  Keeley brings over fifteen years of experience heading up L&D functions in large private and public sector organisations.

In fact, Keeley first commissioned t-three 4 years ago to deliver a 360 degree feedback and coaching programme, and liked us so much, she joined the t-three team!

Keeley’s passion is around helping individuals reach their full potential, and guides organisations to achieve the best performance possible through their people. Her passion for “peak performance” is true also of her personal life with marathon training and Scuba Diving amongst her interests.

Anthony

Viral Change Event – 31st Jan – 10am-1pm – London

Hosted by t-three, Dr Leandro Herrero, who we rate as one of the world’s leading experts on change, outlines his exciting and unique approach – Viral Change™; which has been proven to deliver significantly faster cultural and behavioural change in organisations.

Viral Change™ is about creating an internal epidemic; an infection of success within an organisation, which is totally unlike the traditional, slow, expensive and all too often unsuccessful organisational change programmes.  In Viral Change™, a small set of behaviours spread by a small number of people through their ‘networks of influence’ create massive behavioural tipping points, which go on to form new routines and ‘cultures’.

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Helen

Just returned from you holiday? – How to beat your post-holiday blues. . .

With the summer period now firmly behind us and with autumn encroaching much sooner than we had expected, how do you get back into your routine pre-holiday?

Here are ten tips to help dispel those post-holiday blues. . .

1.  Accept that the holiday is over
2.  Jump back into your routine
3.  Say hello to the boss
4.  Work through your post-holiday blues
5.  Write a to-do list
6.  Take some exercise
7.  Catch up with your team
8.  Think big thoughts …
9.  … and try to make some of them happen
10.  Book another holiday

Helen
Management Today (Sept 2011)