Chronicles from a Caribbean Cubicle
New Thinking from Framework Consulting
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.
The recent news in Jamaica predicts that we are in for some difficult times. With the new harsh realities come an increase in the number of hard to have conversations.
How to conduct difficult workplace conversations
A recent article I wrote for my column in the Sunday Gleaner addresses a hangover from slavery days – a tendency we have to be harsh when we are the boss.
This Gleaner article addresses the fact that there are profits to be made wherever business frictions exists, and complaining about it can help mask the fact that there is an opportunity.
How to Turn Friction into Opportunity
Recently I was interviewed on TVJ on the topic of time management for employees that must figure out how to survive by doing more with less.
In my work with executives I sometimes find that they read people very poorly, and fail to determine what motivates people who work for them. In this article, I try to address the problem and suggest that it’s a problem of not having powerful listening skills.
Using Employee Self-Interest to Motivate.
This week I wrote an article for the Jamaica Gleaner on the topic of networking. I explored the problem we have of networking with friends that fall within our comfort zone.
Here is the article entitled: How to Use Weak Ties to Form a Strong Network.
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: