Workshops Archive – Think Productive North America

Get to grips with Copilot Premium and free up time for the work that matters.

You’ve turned on Copilot Premium. Your people have the licences. Now what?

Most teams don’t struggle with access. They struggle with knowing where to start, what’s actually useful, and how to make it a habit. This session is the answer to that.

Smarter Work with Copilot is a two-hour, beginner-friendly introduction for people who are new to Copilot Premium or who’ve opened it once and closed it again. Clear, practical guidance on how to use Copilot well, across the tools your people are already in every day. Because AI should support the good work, not scale the stress.

What you’ll discover and do

Get a plain-English introduction to what Copilot Premium is, what it’s good at, and how to think about it as a productivity partner, not a magic button.
See how Copilot works inside Outlook to draft emails, summarize threads, extract actions, and help you get to the bottom of your inbox faster.
Learn how to use Copilot before, during, and after Teams meetings, from sharpening agendas to turning conversations into clear next steps.
Discover how Copilot in Word and PowerPoint can take you from blank page to first draft in minutes.
Get a first look at what a Copilot agent is, why it matters, and how to start building one for a task you do repeatedly.

Give us 2 hours a week for 6 weeks and we'll give you 2 hours a week for life!

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“This 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 I’ve forgotten something. Thanks so much! “

Course Participant

Build trust, communicate clearly, and contribute upwards with confidence.

Managing upwards is one of the most important skills in modern work – but one of the least talked about.

If you’ve ever felt stuck, unheard or unsure how to challenge upwards, you’re not alone. Managing upwards isn’t about controlling or fixing someone more senior – it’s about building a stronger, more collaborative relationship so your voice, your ideas, and your team’s needs are part of the picture.

In this practical, interactive workshop, you’ll explore what managing upwards really means. You’ll identify the key senior relationships that shape your work. You’ll assess what’s working (and what’s not), and learn tools to improve communication, trust and strategic alignment.

Through activities like relationship mapping, personality insights and strategic thinking, you’ll leave with a personalized action plan to help you manage upwards with more confidence and clarity – 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.

What you’ll learn

What managing upwards really means – and why it matters
How to assess and improve your senior relationships
How to adapt your approach to different communication and personality styles
How to strengthen trust, visibility and alignment
How to think more strategically and connect your work to the bigger picture
How to apply the learning in real relationships at work

What makes this workshop different?

This session doesn’t assume the problem is “your boss”. 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.

Also navigating change, peers or cross-team dynamics?

This session helps you show up more confidently in your relationships with senior leaders.
If you’re 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”, we’ll show you how to turn Microsoft Teams from “just another video call” into a genuinely useful collaboration space. You may be leading meetings daily or occasionally. Either way you’ll learn how to use Teams features more intentionally to keep people engaged, focused, and clear on what happens next.

We’ll explore how small tweaks in preparation. Setting agendas, using the Teams lobby, and using presenter roles can transform how your meeting flows. You’ll 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.

You’ll come away with not just technical know-how, but also the confidence to shape meetings that are thoughtful, engaging, and productive – every single time.

This workshop can be delivered as a standalone workshop, or as the perfect addition to ‘Fixing Meetings’. 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

It’s 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 Allcott’s 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 Graham…

Graham’s 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.

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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 Ninja® 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 we’re all human. We know what it’s 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 they’ll 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 – 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 – together.

Key benefits of an Implementation Clinic:

Reinforcement and application: reinforce the concepts, skills, and strategies learned in the workshop. Participants apply what they learn in a supportive environment, so that they internalize and implement it effectively .
Accountability and follow-through: participants can set goals, celebrate progress, and receive feedback, which increases their motivation to follow through with the workshop’s teachings and make sustainable changes.
Personalized attention: troubleshoot specific challenges, reflect, and receive tailored guidance from their Productivity Ninja.
Cost-effective: by leveraging the benefits of group dynamics, participants can access high-quality group coaching to maximise the learning ROI.

Want to explore more? Lets Chat

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 – there is another way. The Productivity Ninja’s Email Survival Guide.

We’ll 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.

You’ll 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 “Getting your Inbox to Zero” 3 hour practical workshop works for a group ready, willing and online. They will finish the training with Inbox Zero!

91%

OF OUR PARTICIPANTS WOULD RECOMMEND THIS WORKSHOP TO A FRIEND OR COLLEAGUE.

Making meetings rare, fun and productive again.

. We’re 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 – online or in real life!

We’ll 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 ‘Fixing Meetings‘. For a more hands-on workshop, check it out here.

91%

OF OUR PARTICIPANTS WOULD RECOMMEND THIS WORKSHOP TO A FRIEND OR COLLEAGUE.

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