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Build trust, communicate clearly, and contribute upwards with confidence.
Managing upwards is one of the most important skills in modern work â but one of the least talked about.
If youâve ever felt stuck, unheard or unsure how to challenge upwards, youâre not alone. Managing upwards isnât about controlling or fixing someone more senior â itâs about building a stronger, more collaborative relationship so your voice, your ideas, and your teamâs needs are part of the picture.
In this practical, interactive workshop, youâll explore what managing upwards really means. Youâll identify the key senior relationships that shape your work. You’ll assess whatâs working (and whatâs not), and learn tools to improve communication, trust and strategic alignment.
Through activities like relationship mapping, personality insights and strategic thinking, youâll leave with a personalized action plan to help you manage upwards with more confidence and clarity â whatever your role.
When individuals manage upwards well, senior leaders make better decisions, teams work more efficiently, and trust grows across the organization. Everyone wins.
This session doesnât assume the problem is âyour bossâ. It focuses on what you can do to strengthen the relationship, improve collaboration and lead with intention, no matter where you sit in the hierarchy.
This session helps you show up more confidently in your relationships with senior leaders.
If youâre preparing to lead projects, step into a broader role or work more effectively across your organization, we recommend pairing it with our 6-hour Influencing and Persuading workshop. It explores the psychology, strategy and communication skills needed for stakeholder buy-in and confident collaboration across teams.
Helping 'Teams' live up to its name
In this hands-on and practical session “Mastering Microsoft Teams Meetings”, weâll show you how to turn Microsoft Teams from âjust another video callâ into a genuinely useful collaboration space. You may be leading meetings daily or occasionally. Either way youâll learn how to use Teams features more intentionally to keep people engaged, focused, and clear on what happens next.
Weâll explore how small tweaks in preparation. Setting agendas, using the Teams lobby, and using presenter roles can transform how your meeting flows. Youâll also get a feel for all the hidden gems in Teams. These include immersive spaces, polls, whiteboards, and breakout rooms, that help bring energy and clarity to your virtual get-togethers.
Youâll come away with not just technical know-how, but also the confidence to shape meetings that are thoughtful, engaging, and productive â every single time.
This workshop can be delivered as a standalone workshop, or as the perfect addition to âFixing Meetingsâ. This workshop explores all of the features that people overlook at the point they create meetings. Mastering Microsoft Teams Meetings helps your people use Teams to create purposeful, structured, inclusive meetings. The same managed and productive meetings that we champion in Fixing Meetings.
The Quiet Power of Kindness at Work
Itâs often thought that, as leaders, we have to choose between a kind working environment or a high-performing one. The Graham Allcott KIND keynote sets out to prove that kindness actually drives success.
Based on the scientific research and leadership principles from Graham Allcottâs book KIND, this keynote will show you how kind acts lead to higher levels of teamwork, innovation and productivity as well as help shift work culture and society at large to something better.
A bit about GrahamâŚ
Grahamâs transition from charity chief executive to freelance consultant inspired him to set up Think Productive. With a mission to revolutionize stuffy time management courses, Think Productive launched in April 2009, earning rave reviews and loyal clients such as American Express, Blue Rubicon, Warner Bros, eBay, and PayPal.
Graham's approaches to time and attention management takes cover the demands of both work life and home life so great for helping with work/life balance too. Really different to anything like this that I have ever done before- I would definitely recommend (and already have!)
Workshop Participant
Radically overhaul your teams email and make it work for you!
Overloaded inboxes, miscommunications, and inefficient email practices don’t just waste time; they hinder innovation and create unnecessary stress. This email etiquette workshop will transform your team’s relationship with email, equipping them with the skills to communicate effectively, collaborate seamlessly, and reclaim valuable hours in their day.
This workshop shares our Productivity NinjaÂŽ approach to brilliant email, enabling your team to think about how their email habits affect others and reshape the culture so that email is no longer a time-waster but a powerful asset.Interested? Book a Chat with Barbara
A follow-up clinic with your Productivity Ninja to stay accountable, reflect, and celebrate new habits.
Our mission is to inspire lasting work transformation. We design our workshops to maximize impact and make new habits stick. But weâre all human. We know what itâs like to leave a workshop with the best of intentions. In the absence of accountability and continued momentum however, it can be easier to go back to old habits. Our Implementation Clinic is designed to overcome this.
The solution is simple: your people know theyâll be meeting up again after the workshop. So they are held accountable whilst being supported to keep up the new habits. That is where the magic happens â the sweet spot.
Our Clinics empower learners to create sustainable change that fosters a culture of continuous learning. By promoting reflection and shared experiences, we cultivate a supportive environment where learners can thrive â together.
Key benefits of an Implementation Clinic:
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Get email overload under control to gain clarity, focus and produce your best work.
If your inbox is out of control and email is taking over your working life, fear not â there is another way. The Productivity Ninja’s Email Survival Guide.
Weâll look at the psychology of what makes email stressful and help you to re-evaluate its place in your working day, so that you can create the space for you to focus on creating real impact in your work.
By the end of the keynote you will have the tools and the empowered mindset to get your email all under control in the space of a couple of hours.
Youâll see email in a completely different way and learn to love it again.
This interactive seminar can be condensed to 90 minutes (with a little less conversation and action-planning). If that better suits your event or group we can explore these options together. If you absolutely want to implement these changes on the day with a smaller group, we have another option. Our âGetting your Inbox to Zeroâ 3 hour practical workshop works for a group ready, willing and online. They will finish the training with Inbox Zero!
OF OUR PARTICIPANTS WOULD RECOMMEND THIS WORKSHOP TO A FRIEND OR COLLEAGUE.
Making meetings rare, fun and productive again.
. Weâre on a mission to change the way the world thinks about meetings, so here is our Meeting Survival Guide. We want to break the cycle of your calendar booked back to back. We want to create a culture where no one has to sit in a boring or unproductive meeting again.
This interactive keynote is packed with practical tips, tricks and tools. It will help your team make the most of any time spent in meetings â online or in real life!
Weâll also empower every participant, whatever their role, to cheekily and positively disrupt bad or outdated meetings habits. We will also spend time focusing on the cost of meetings and sometimes even help your team question the need for a meeting at all.
Like all of out training we adopt a blended learning approach. We complement the workshop with forever access to on-line resources such as meeting checklists, sample agenda and purpose statements.
This is a keynote version of our changemaking workshop âFixing Meetingsâ. For a more hands-on workshop, check it out here.
OF OUR PARTICIPANTS WOULD RECOMMEND THIS WORKSHOP TO A FRIEND OR COLLEAGUE.
Life changing is how I would describe Think Productiveâs methods
SONIA SPARKLES, SYMANTEC GLOBAL CONSULTING OPERATIONS
Understanding human motivation to energize and inspire your team.
With employee engagement at an all-time low, itâs time to get to grips with human motivation.
Nearly six in ten employees are âquiet quittingâ (Gallup). That is putting in the bare minimum effort to keep their jobs, but no longer going the extra mile. This disengagement is costing businesses billions in lost productivity, innovation, and increased turnover.
Do you see?:
All these manifestations of disengagement hurt your bottom line and can spread like contagion.
But hereâs the good news: this trend is not inevitable. While the world continues to change, the fundamental principles of human motivation stay the same. By understanding the 7 work-based emotional needs that drive engagement, your Managers and Team Leaders can proactively transform their teamâs energy, happiness, and performance.
In this practical, hands-on workshop, your Managers will:
This session makes managers better people leaders and budding aficionados in individual motivation.
We recommend you consider pairing this engagement workshop with our âThriving Teamsâ session, which dives into the key elements of a thriving cultureâequipping Managers with practical strategies for building trusting, resilient, and high-performing teams.
Productivity and Core Skills
6 hours
Up to 15
Avoid Distraction, Get Your Best Work Done and Make Space for What Matters.
3 hrs
Up to 20
Our practical email training ensures real change happens during the workshop, rather than just talking about it!
2 hrs
Unlimited
Get email overload under control to gain clarity, focus and produce your best work.
Up to 2 hours
Up to 100
Help Your Students Study Smarter, Focus Better and Achieve More.
Management Skills
3 Hours
Up to 20
Build trust, communicate clearly, and contribute upwards with confidence.
Inspiring Keynotes
2 hrs
Unlimited
UNLOCKING CREATIVITY & RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY & UNCERTAINTY.
2 hrs
Unlimited
Get email overload under control to gain clarity, focus and produce your best work.
Personal Coaching
âThis course was exactly what I was looking for. It has tamed the overwhelm and I am feeling confident and in control of my work. I know how to figure out what is important and can see quite quickly what stages my work is at. I am no longer worried that Iâve forgotten something. Thanks so much! â
Course Participant