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Making the complex simple and productivity easy
About GettingAGrip.com
If you're looking for help with time management and productivity, licensed training programs, seminars and workshops, keynote speeches and conference break-out sessions; books, coaching, free articles and time tips, you've come to the right website.
Our team is based in various parts of New Zealand. Our clients are not only extensively throughout New Zealand, Australia and extending into Asia and the Pacific but now also much further afield.
Through our licensed GettingAGrip Productivity Training System, translations of my time management-related books and the thousands of readers of our 'Top Time Tips' free ezine, we also reach much further afield into the US, Great Britain, India, Korea, Latvia, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, France, Israel and many other countries.
Where we're based
Like most companies, we've had changes of location, name and size since I stumbled into the field of time management and productivity back in the very early 1990s. I began in Auckland working from our spare bedroom; husband Mike and I had four exciting years in Sydney from 1996-2000; and in late 2000, like so many Kiwis, family ties tugged us home. (The six children had started to multiply!)
These days Mike and I are located in rural South Auckland, 45 minutes from the Auckland CBD but a world away from the hustle of New Zealand's largest city, right on the shores of a river estuary. From my purpose-built office attached to the house I'm inspired daily by the flow of the tide, the seabirds and the sunsets.
However, the cat is my only on-site assistant (and I just can't train her to make the coffee!). The rest of the team work also from their homes - we're a virtual company and all love the efficiency and lifestyle this way of working gives us all.
The GettingAGrip.com team
- Andrew Haddleton , Director - Marketing and Strategy, Auckland
- Jill Gimblett, Office Manager Extraordinaire, does a stunning job from Christchurch in the South Island.
- And there's a whole raft of fantastic service providers dotted around several countries who contribute to our virtual team.
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About Robyn Pearce CSP
I teach time management because I used to be bad at it!
My path has taken some interesting turns. First I was a librarian, then a farmer's wife and mother of six (including an intellectually handicapped foster son). Next I was a solo mother on government benefits. A few long years later I climbed out of the poverty trap (with a dabble in tourism along the way) and become a very successful real estate agent, (a not so obvious career path!)
In real estate I had to learn better time management skills - or sink!
- For years no one else in the house would answer the phone.
- I was kicked out of meetings because I was late.
- I burnt out numerous times from overwork and poor time habits.
Frustrated with my complaints about lack of time, a wise friend pointed me in the direction of a decent diary and a few key time management principles. Since then, through much study, trial and error, that great weakness has transmuted into a major strength and an international business.
I reckon this is the best possible background for running a time management business - I really do understand how it feels to be out of control! It's a huge buzz these days to help others make the same change as they learn and practice the many simple and practical productivity habits that changed my life so dramatically.
You'll find more about my speeches, books and other products, and the training system now available for other trainers, by following your chosen links.
Professional Speaking Credits
- CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) - first in New Zealand. Less than 10% of the speakers who belong to the International Federation for Professional Speakers (IFFPS), the body representing professional speaking associations worldwide, hold this professional designation. CSP is the international standard they agree represents competence in the speaking profession.
- Past President NSANZ 2002-3 (National Speakers Association of New Zealand).
- Spirit of Excellence award winner 2003 - to honour both excellence in the speaking profession and contributions to the speaking industry of New Zealand.
- Past President 2006/2007, International Federation for Professional Speakers (IFFPS). Member countries: USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia, Germany, Holland.
Who are our customers?
Anyone who wants to achieve a positive bottom line result through effective and efficient work practices, less stress, better work/life balance, higher profitability, and happy employees. They include:
- Corporates in almost every industry
- Government and community sector organisations
- SMEs (Small to Medium Enterprises)
- Schools and educational groups
- Franchise groups
- Many individuals
You'll find here a partial list of our past and present customers and what they say.
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