Chronicles from a Caribbean Cubicle
New Thinking from Framework Consulting
My flagship time-based productivity programme returns to Kingston on February the 27th, 2014 – Thursday.
To view a short video describing this programme, follow this link to the NewHabits information page. This is a unique opportunity to close the gap between where you are and where you could be as a Caribbean professional using ideas that were fashioned right here in the region.
I recently revised a time management special report on the topic of Capturing – the art of recording new demands on your time in a reliable place.
Most people in the Caribbean use memory – which is a recipe for disaster. Download this fre article and teach yourself the finer points.
With a combination of hubris, chutzpah and confidence, I have started to offer a “Distraction-Free Discount” to strategic planning clients. Here’s why…
I recently constructed an exposition of content on the single idea of Time Demands -a key notion in the work we do at 2Time Labs.
So far I have a video, a slideshare, a podcast. a blog post and a page on my website.
Here’s the slideshare with the links to the other resources at the very end:
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: