Celebrations, National Pride, And Time-Saving Systems Recognised Internationally
28 November 2017You Don’t Have To Win To Celebrate In New Zealand this last week we’ve seen a wonderful demonstration of national pride, with waves of red flags supporting the Tongan rugby league team. They were pipped at the post for the finals (somewhat contentiously), but rightfully proud Tongans all round Auckland have cheered, waved and celebrated […]
What To Do About The Non-Urgent But Useful Emails
2 October 2017My Melbourne friend Nigel sent me a great question about email. Because it’s an issue for many, I decided to share it in this week’s blog. Nigel: Here’s a dilemma that I face frequently with email and workflow. I stare at my email feed. It stares back at me, blankly. “So what are you going […]
Travel Light And You’ll Save Time
11 September 2017Have you ever cursed as you struggle with heavy and cumbersome luggage on holidays? I certainly have. By the end of my first big international trip, only 17 years ago, I felt and looked like a camel. I still remember the difficulty of getting a heavy suitcase up and down London tube steps while hundreds […]
Guest Article – For SME Business Owners Serious About Growing Their Business
27 June 2017My business colleague Neil Sayer is a very effective Business Coach whose clients get great value in working with him as they grow their business. (Every now and then Neil also gets me to come in as a specialist coach for short interventions on time management issues.) So, when he offered to share his 50 […]
Six Tips on How to Reduce Stress and Beat Burnout
6 June 2017I was having a conversation with a senior Army officer about stress and burnout the other day. At the extreme end is PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder). He, in company with a number of his colleagues, has experienced it and sometimes gets recurrences, especially when he’s under a lot of pressure. The initial onset is […]
The Downside Of Always Being Available For Questions
5 May 2017Do you ever feel that you either have to come in early or stay late to get the ‘real’ work done? Does it seem that every minute of the day is gobbled up by phone calls, meetings and people saying ‘Have you got a minute?’ In the 25 years since I began specialising in the […]
A Simple Tip For Over-Loaded Young Parents
11 April 2017Now my latest book, ‘Getting a Grip on Parenting Time: 86 commonsense lessons from the trenches’ is out, I’m getting regular requests to run time management seminars for young parents. The most recent one was a Zonta-sponsored one at Mangawhai Heads, an hour or so north of Auckland last Tuesday, in the midst of the worst […]
How a CEO With a Seriously Messy Office Got Her Mojo Back
28 February 2017At the conclusion of a day’s time management training for Suzanne and her staff of 20, although we’d achieved a lot, she asked for more assistance. ‘Robyn, can you come and help me sort out my office. I don’t know where to start. It’s so bad that I get a pressure headache when I walk […]
Save Thousands of Dollars by Reducing Meeting Time
31 January 2017Most of us are getting back into work after a long break and watching our schedules start to fill up again with meetings. Are you wishing you could reduce some of them? Whether you’re in a small home-based business or part of a large multinational, you’ll probably find that time is far too easily gobbled […]
How To Keep That Holiday Feeling For Longer
20 January 2017Here are some practical steps to help you sustain your holiday joie de vivre past the first few hours back at work! Step 1: Lock in ‘time out’ – every week Recharge and personal time is too important to leave to chance – it needs to be planned for. If you consistently plan your […]