Why did I choose to write my first book in the form of a story?

It had nothing to do with wanting to learn a new and very challenging skills! Instead, I had enjoyed the first business fable I ever read – The Goal by Eli Goldratt – that it made me want to replicate the learning journey I on when I read it for others.

The question of “Why time management needs to be revisited?” is such a big one – I wanted to get the lesson across without having to resort to “trust me” arguments and lots of lists of prescriptive behaviors.

In these recessionary times it’s becoming a new tactic of employers – find a way to get people to do 2 jobs. What happens if you are on the receiving end? What do you do?

How to do the job of two people – my article in today’s Jamaica Gleaner.

This article I wrote for the Gleaner speaks to the reasons why leaders need to show their employee how to learn, by being transparent about their own learning. It’s a much better way to teach.

Time Management – Why Leaders Need to Learn and to Teach It.

I made an appearance on TVJ to talk about the (in) famous Yahoo pronouncement that the company would no longer allow its employees to work from home. I looked at the pros and cons of this policy from a time management perspective. Click here – Time Management Policies.

The first chapter was drafted back in March 2009 and it earned exactly two supportive comments on my blog. I can’t bear to look at it now, but it was my first effort to place Time Management 2.0 ideas within the context of a story. A novel. A fable about business that would tell a story, but at the same time impart some powerful lessons about being productive in today’s work environment.

The book is now complete and it has its own page – Bill’s Im-Perfect Time Management Adventure and it’s available on Amazon.com in both paperback and Kindle formats.

Some awesome news arrived at Framework Consulting – the home of 2Time Labs.

My proposal to present a speech at the American Society of Training and Development’s 2013 Annual Conference and Exposition was accepted! Am headed to Dallas in May to make a one hour presentation to the world’s largest training and development conference.

The topic will be How to Stop Failing At Behavior Change Training: The Case of Time Management. Click on this link to be taken to a description of the one hour session.

It hasn’t been a short journey to this point.

For the last six years, I have turned a longtime passion for this subject into a full-blown area of expertise after being disappointed at the lack of options that people like me had when we underwent major life changes. In my case, it was a move to Jamaica from Florida that threw me back to levels of un-productivity that I thought I had long left behind.

I helped myself, and now I’m helping others answer some of the same question I had by focusing on the following topics:

• Helping to give time management coaches more than tips, tricks and shortcuts.
• Providing a way for time management trainers to find fresh, new materials that they can use without fear of legal repercussions.
• Describing why a time management consultant can’t set as a goal that everyone will end up doing things exactly the same way.
• Showing ways for all the above, plus professional organizers, can earn more revenue as expert time advisers.

What is a manager supposed to do when his/her team lacks the time management skills needed to get the job done?  We often make the mistake of thinking that these skills are “basic.”

Nothing could be further from the truth.

The Pitfalls of Lacking Time Management

I recently wrote a provocative article on how executives are blindly putting demands on their employees that are ruining their productivity.

It’s my dream that one day it will adorn the walls of cubicles of every Caribbean company!

How Executives Unwittingly Turn Employees into Morons

Over at 2Time Labs and MyTimeDesign, I have crafted a new niche to explore in 2012.

Prompted by a post-conference workshop I’m presenting in September at the Institute for Challenging Disorganization, I am finding that there is very little help being provided to those who are tasked with improving the productivity of others.

In the past, it’s boiled down to “Here, read this book.”

To get things rolling, I have written a couple of article for the Sunday Gleaner and the Stepcase Lifehack website.

It’s fascinating to me that no-one has done much to help professionals who don’t know where to start.  In 2012, we’re out to change that.

We are offering NewHabits Foundations once again in Kingston April 26th, at the Medallion Hall Hotel.

Visit our information page for details on our time management 2.0 training that includes an Email Overload Module as well as 6 weeks of additional e-Learning.

Click here: http://newhabitsja.info