Graham Allcott

"All the tips and techniques you need to stay calm, get through your tasks, make the most of your time and stop procrastinating. It's fun, easy to follow and practical--and may just be the kick up the bottom you need "--"Closer" When it comes to overflowing inboxes, ever-expanding to-do lists, and endless meetings, traditional time-management techniques--like those in bestselling books by David Allen or Dominic Wolff-- simply don't cut it in the age of information overload Thankfully there's a better way. Graham Allcott, founder of one of the United Kingdom's most prominent productivity workshop companies, Think Productive (thinkproductive.com), presents "How to be a Productivity Ninja," his brilliant--and originally self-published--guide to cutting through the procrastination, getting more done, and enjoying your work and your life more as a result. Using techniques including Ruthlessness, Mindfulness, Zen-like Calm, and Stealth and Camouflage, you will get your inbox down to zero, maximize your attention span, and learn work smarter, not harder. Think Productive is quickly expanding throughout the world, with a Canadian branch now up and running. It is anticipated that 2015 will see the launch of Think Productive US. Watch Graham explain the nine steps to becoming a Productivity Ninja at bit.ly/ninjaway and read a free sample at bit.ly/ninjaextract. Graham Allcott is a productivity trainer, social entrepreneur, and founder of Think Productive, which runs public productivity workshops throughout the world and has run in-house workshops for staff at organizations including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, American Express, JP Morgan, Amazon, eBay, PayPal, and GlaxoSmithKline.

Forget Time Management: How to Get Things Done in the Age of Information Overload

How to Be a Productivity Ninja

In the age of information overload, traditional time management techniques simply don’t cut it when it comes to overflowing inboxes, ever-expanding to-do lists and endless, pointless meetings. Thankfully there is a better way: The Way of the Productivity Ninja.Using techniques including Ruthlessness, Mindfulness, Zen-like Calm and Stealth & Camouflage you will get your inbox down to zero, make the most of your attention, beat procrastination and learn to work smarter, not harder.Written by one of the UK’s foremost productivity experts, How to be a Productivity Ninja is a fun, accessible and practical guide to staying cool, calm and collected, getting more done, and learning to love your work again.

Worry Less, Achieve More and Love What You Do

Is your inbox overloaded? Feel like your email is controlling your life? You need the ninja way of email management! In this short ebook, an edited extract from Graham Allcott’s acclaimed How to be a Productivity Ninja, you’ll learn the simple skills to get your inbox down to zero - and keep it there, day after day. Following Allcott’s straightforward advice, anyone - from a student to a Chief Executive - can keep on top of their messages and feel in command, calm and up to date. You’ll learn to be ruthless, to separate thinking from doing, and how to make your email inbox work for you - and not the other way around!

from How to be a Productivity Ninja

Get Your Inbox Down to Zero

In the world of smartphones, instant internet access and on-demand documentaries, studying should be easier than ever. Yet all this background noise can make us unfocused and inefficient learners. So how can you cut through the distractions and get back to productive, rewarding learning? Four little words: Think like a Ninja. Paralysed by procrastination? Harness some Ninja Focus to get things started. Overwhelmed by exam nerves? You need some Zen-like Calm to turn those butterflies into steely focus. Surrounded by too many scrappy notes and unfinished to-do lists? Get Weapon-savvy with the latest organizational technology. With nine Ninja techniques to learn, there is a solution here for everyone who wants to learn better – and they don’t involve giving up the rest of your life. Written by one of the world’s foremost productivity experts, How to be a Study Ninja is a fun, accessible and practical guide on how to get the most out of your studying and love the quest for knowledge again.

Study smarter. Focus better. Achieve more.

How to be a Study Ninja

Productivity

Work Smarter, Not Harder

A Practical Guide

Introducing Productivity

In the world of smartphones, instant internet access and on-demand documentaries, studying should be easier than ever. Yet all this background noise can make us unfocused and inefficient learners. So how can you cut through the distractions and get back to productive, rewarding learning? Four little words: Think like a Ninja.Paralysed by procrastination? Harness some Ninja Focus to get things started. Overwhelmed by exam nerves? You need some Zen-like Calm to turn those butterflies into steely focus. Surrounded by too many scrappy notes and unfinished to-do lists? Get Weapon-savvy with the latest organizational technology.With nine Ninja techniques to learn, there is a solution here for everyone who wants to learn better – and they don’t involve giving up the rest of your life.Written by one of the world’s foremost productivity experts, How to be a Knowledge Ninja is a fun, accessible and practical guide on how to get the most out of your studying and love the quest for knowledge again.

Study Smarter. Focus Better. Achieve More.

How to Be a Knowledge Ninja

Essay writing is a drag, right? Not if it’s done the ninja way! In this short ebook, an edited extract from Graham Allcott’s brilliant How to be a Knowledge Ninja, you’ll learn how to write an essay - whether it’s for an article, a dissertation or an assignment. Allcott shows how the best way to start an essay is by not writing anything at all, and how Ninja Preparedness can save countless headaches further down the track. He reminds us that the best essays are those where our personalities shine through, and also shares his Ninja cheats - expert tips for last-minute essay crise

From How to be a Knowledge Ninja

How Thinking About Sex Helps You Write Essays

To do: take the stress out of work defeat ‘information overload’ be more efficient. Whether you are overwhelmed by your to-do list, or get stressed just looking at your full inbox, this Practical Guide from productivity expert Graham Allcott reveals how to think, and act, more productively and to start loving work. Following a simple A-Z of expert tips and real-life examples, you will learn to improve your focus, regain control, and feel cool, calm and collected.

A Practical Guide to Productivity

Hayley Watts

'An accessible thought provoking book that offers something of interest to anyone responsible for organising (or participating in) meetings.' Jackie Weaver, Chief Officer of the Cheshire Association of Local Councils Zoom fatigue? Calendar full of meetings that could just be an email? Online and offline, too much valuable time is wasted in meetings. Often little advance planning takes place, resulting in productivity drains rather than productivity gains. Providing realistic and practical advice, productivity professionals Graham Allcott and Hayley Watts show how to reduce the amount of time you spend in meetings, and ensure that the ones that you do attend are genuine opportunities to collaborate and get things done. Learn how to hold and attend meetings where the focus is on the outcome; get to grips with the 40–20–40 Continuum, so that only 20 per cent of your attention for each meeting is spent in the meeting itself – the rest is in the preparation and the follow-through; and understand when it’s necessary to say that you won’t be attending – and how best to do so.

Meet Less, Focus on Outcomes and Get Stuff Done

How to Fix Meetings

Colette Heneghan

The complete guide to eating for everyday energy Are you a regular victim of an afternoon slump? Is it a struggle to keep focused on your to-do list? Do you want to fit more into your day, but feel as if you just don’t have the energy? Nutritionist Colette Heneghan and productivity expert Graham Allcott provide all the answers in How to Have the Energy, explaining how not only what, but how you eat can improve your focus, boost productivity and even give you more time in your day. Using the High-Energy Plan, they show how eating well can and should fit into your lifestyle, however busy it is. From how to put your shopping list together, to how to upgrade your breakfast, from how to be label-savvy to the importance of ditching the desk lunch, from the author of the bestselling How to be a Productivity Ninja, this the complete guide to eating smarter and boosting your everyday energy.

Your nine-point plan to eating smarter, improving focus and feeding your potential

How to Have the Energy

We all know the benefits of healthy eating, but in practice, it’s often just not compatible with a busy, working lifestyle. Grabbing food on the go between meetings, before you rush to the gym, after catching up with friends – there’s just not enough time to be fussy – what you eat often takes a backseat. But what if that didn’t have to be the case? What if what you were eating actually gave you more time; boosting your productivity, increasing your focus, and ensuring that you didn’t fall victim to that daily 3pm energy slump? Productivity and nutrition experts Graham Allcott and Colette Heneghan present a new way to think about what you eat: the Productivity Ninja way. A new book in the bestselling Productivity Ninja series, Work Fuel shows you how eating well can and should fit into your lifestyle, however busy it is. From surviving conferences and work trips to how to best put together your food shopping list, Work Fuel provides you with an investment plan, promising to improve your performance, focus and energy by changing the way that you eat.

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