How a Bucket List will Increase Your Personal Productivity – Travis Bell
Before Trav became ʻThe Bucket List Guyʼ, he built a chain of personal training studios across Australia. Starting with 1 client, he & his team went on to do over a million personal training sessions & motivated 10’s of 1000’s of clients. This is the foundation for why Travis now regarded as one of Australiaʼs foremost Personal Development Speakers & Life Coaches. As a self-appointed ʻBucket Listologistʼ, Trav has obsessively studied the Bucket List phenomenon & blended the worldʼs best Positive Psychology principals to create his own unique Bucket List Life Philosophy. He has designed his life around his Bucket …
Productive Leadership – Tarran Deane
Tarran Deane is a Leadership Development specialist. She is determined to reduce the ‘trafficking of leaders’ – good people leaving leadership roles, Tarran has extensive knowledge of emerging trends, the internal politics of organisations and the impact of disunity, the blame game & unrealistic expectations. Tarran is a former National Executive of leading Australian NFP “House With No Steps”, with annual revenue of $55million during Tarran’s service. Tarran has more than 41,000 real time hours in leadership across finance, training and development, tourism and community engagement. As a leadership development specialist, executive coach and change strategist to high performing Leaders …
Why Unwritten Ground Rules Could be Sabotaging Your Productivity – Steve Simpson
Steve Simpson is an international speaker, consultant and author based in Melboune. Described by UK based e-Customer Service World as ‘Australia’s leading corporate culture authority’, Steve has created the concept of UGRs® which is receiving global acclaim as a tool to understand and improve organisational culture. Steve has spoken at two World Conferences on Customer Service Management, in the US – where he rated in the Top 10 speakers. He has recently spoken at UK Customer Management Conference in Edinburgh, the Regional Conference for the Academy of Chief Executives in London, and the International Leadership Symposium in Johannesburg. He is …
Moving from ‘Me’ to ‘We’: The 5 critical Steps to Creating a Team your colleagues and competitors will envy – Sandi Givens
Born in the US, Sandi has over 25 years of experience in training and management. She is the author a widely acclaimed book Women on the Move – How you can create your place in the world and is a Certified Speaking Professional – the only internationally recognised designation for professional speakers. Sandi is MBTI and DISC accredited and has a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology & Psychology from Monash University. …
How a Mentally Healthy Work Culture Impacts on Productivity Guest – Graeme Cowan
Graeme’s world changed in 2000 when as a joint Managing Director of an Executive Search Division of a recruitment company, Graeme experienced a mental breakdown resulting in him being out of the workforce for 6 years. He emerged from the crisis with a very different view about how we can build resilience and mood to thrive in times of change. In 2007, he launched his first book, Back from the Brink which former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair commented “…is a brave book that will certainly help remove stigma, and provides real hope and practical help”. In 2009, Graeme worked …
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
The Rolling Stones sang you can’t always get what you want. When I start working with clients they often tell me they can’t get what they want with their Excel worksheets. It’s often as result of being too ‘close’ to the data. They know the outcome but either aren’t sure how to get there, or are missing one or more steps. Sometimes you need a fresh set of ‘eyes’ to provide some alternatives or options which can fast track your productivity. This of course is what you need. So if you can’t get what you want, maybe you should try …
Cumulative Gains
Recently I worked with a new team who were quite proficient with Excel. Our session provided them with the opportunity to fill their knowledge gaps, check in and see what their colleagues knew and provide the time and space to explore better processes and productivity gains. In our session together, I shared a range of topics designed to immediately impact on their personal productivity. One of my favourites is macros. When I introduce the concept of macros, I see “light globes” go off as people appreciate the power this tool has to fast track their common tasks. Even the more …
Take the Lead
Einstein is credited with saying the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Sometimes in business we expect change to come from above and feed down The easiest way to change is to take the lead. You take the lead and lead by example. This might mean responding to emails at a particular time of the day or encouraging others to call you or meet with you rather than sending you emails randomly When people see you leading by example and your productivity increase they naturally want to follow along …
Massage
One of my favourite self-care items is to have a massage. To me there’s nothing better than having a muscle stretched, rubbed and massaged to release tension. This got me to thinking about how massage applies to how we use everyday technology such as email, Word & Excel. We often get tight and constricted in our approach to doing things. It could be that we scared to do something different in case we get it wrong, or perhaps we don’t feel we have time to explore other options. Every now and then we need to take time out to massage …
Confidence
I delivered a program recently on presenting with Powerpoint. It was a combination of tips and shortcuts and lifting your presentation skills to some tips on actually presenting and using Powerpoint as a tool or presenting in general. Often when you are in a sales team, it can be a challenge. You’re just given product knowledge and maybe a computer and a template and told to go out and present. Often there’s not consistency. Yesterday I found out that this particular organisation they had a style guide, but they didn’t know what it was or where it was. So I …
