Blog tag: productivity
Bank holidays and boundaries: reclaiming your time at work
With the upcoming Easter long weekend and May bank holidays, now is a perfect time to consider how well you manage your time and boundaries. It’s great to have all the extra holidays, but for many people, the workload still needs to be managed. Many people find setting and maintaining…
The story behind ‘Rest. Practise. Perform.’ – revealing the performance secrets of elite sports
In their latest book, ‘Rest. Practise. Perform.’ Monkey Puzzle Co-founders Karen Meager and John McLachlan explore how elite sportspeople and their teams manifest sustainable performance – and what leaders and organisations can learn from their strategies. As they discovered, the answer isn’t to work harder or faster. The secret is…
A leaders guide to helping your team avoid busy but pointless work
Are you a leader who wants a high performing team? Perhaps you’ve started the year wanting to bring some fresh momentum to the way things are done. You know your people work hard, but if you could focus them on the really important objectives, you’d all achieve so much more.…
5 characters likely to derail your meeting – and how to manage them
If you want to run an effective meeting you’ll know how important it is to make productive use of the collective time. It’s a real art form. Meetings have to be beneficial and productive or they become very costly. Meetings can easily get derailed, go off at tangents and have…
Resolve the internal conflicts that sabotage your time
While a lot of us have issues with how others impact our time, it’s often ourselves who can be an even bigger block to getting things done. So, rather than pointing the finger elsewhere, this article is all about taking a look at our own habits when it comes to…
Wellbeing strategies for resilient leaders
Much has been made of the impact of the pandemic and the effects of remote working on the wellbeing of employees this past year. As we tentatively return to some semblance of normality, it will be the resilient organisations that will recover the quickest. Resilient leaders need a positive state…
Are these Magnificent Seven Time Wasters fuelling your burnout?
We are all trying to manage and deliver more, at work and at home. With so many demands on our time, it can be difficult to know how to ensure everything receives adequate attention. Invariably something crashes. Increasingly as we cope with the fallout from the pandemic, the risk is…
What leaders can do to support workplace mental health
Mental health and wellbeing are now urgent leadership priorities. Failure to tackle the problems caused by the pandemic isn’t an option for any organisation that wants to do the right thing for its people and also remain productive. With growing incidents of workplace stress, burnout, isolation and loss of engagement,…
Workplace predictions for 2021: Organisational structure, culture and leadership
The arrival of Covid-19 transformed far more than our workplaces in 2020 and is thought to have brought forward remote working by 10 years – all in a matter of a few weeks. As the year went on, we waited for the ‘new normal’ to arrive – and we’re arguably…
Workplace predictions for 2021: Mental health and employee wellbeing
The Covid-19 pandemic dramatically altered the blog content covered by Monkey Puzzle across 2020. Many of our additional articles addressed the impact of the virus on the mental health of the workforce, and with good reason. It affected everyone, at all levels, both inside and outside of work. With the…