Procrastinator’s Magic Pill
I think procrastination robs us of so much productivity in the workplace. The other day, I was running my Prolific Productivity program, and one of the participants asked me, “Colin, how do I stop procrastinating?” You’ve probably heard a whole lot of stuff about procrastination. It impacts our productivity, results, relationships and even our promotions. […]
How to Make a Holiday Work at Work
Just recently, I had one of my clients say to me, “Colin, I’ve been told I need to take holidays, but I just don’t have the time! I don’t want to come back to 250 emails. I don’t know how to set it up so that when I leave, everything is still going to run […]
Simple Street Values
Many organisations pay lip service to values. The company values or ethos end up being a stale, irrelevant document that sits on their intranet. But I think if we get values right, they can change everything. I’ve shot a 3-minute video on what you must do to get values to work for you. I believe […]
3 Powerful Reframes
I want to share with you three of my favorite techniques that I’ve taught my clients for turning a negative experience into a positive. Just recently, my organisation ran a significant Resilience Program. We’ve taken over 350 leaders through this program. So I wanted to share with you some teaching highlights. Resilience is about understanding […]
5 Big Productivity Hacks
I want to share with you five tips that can dramatically increase your productivity. These tips can literally double your productivity, if done consistently. We live our lives in a rush, always feeling out of control, missing things by minutes. I think we need to understand how to increase our productivity so we can do […]
The Structure of Focus
I want to have an important conversation with you about ‘focus.’ It was just the other day when I had a coaching client say to me, “Colin, I have so much going on at work. I’ve got distractions, I’ve got emails, I’ve got people asking me for my time… How do I get focused […]
The 5 Levels of Focus when Presenting
I want to share with you the five levels that I think people focus on and the feelings they experience from those levels when public speaking. In fact, these five levels, I’ve found, are the difference between communicating persuasively and confidently — or fearfully. Here are the five Levels of Focus: 1. Self — […]
3 Keys to Hiring the Right Person
Today’s conversation is about hiring the right people, making sure that you get the right person on your team because if you make a bad decision there, it can have a dramatic effect on your team and your business. Let’s have a conversation about what I call ‘The Triangle of Hiring.’ I believe this […]
Command Attention Onstage
I want to share with you an idea that from a lot of research is suggested as the difference between whether you’re believable or not, whether you come across with a sense of certainty or uncertainty. I shared this idea with a woman I was doing coaching with, and I noticed that she was […]
Verbal Fluency
I want to have a conversation with you about how you can create what I call ‘verbal fluency.’ Have you ever got up in front of a group to do a presentation and it didn’t come out as clear as it was in your head? You wrote it all down, you thought it was clear, […]