Solutions For Effective Personal and Team Productivity
Welcome to Productivity Pit Stop, where we help individuals and teams improve productivity significantly.
Our Approach
We understand that every organisation is different. That’s why we offer tailored solutions that meet your specific challenges and goals. Our focus is on creating sustainable improvements in performance and efficiency.
Flexible Services
Whether you need group workshops or 1-on-1 coaching, our services are flexible and can be customised to fit your organisation’s needs. We work with you to ensure our programmes align with your schedule and requirements.
Customised Solutions
From standard courses to fully personalised programmes, we adapt to your context and challenges, seamlessly integrating with your operations.
Calendar-Friendly
We ensure our services fit into your calendar and work pace, providing the flexibility you need for both short-term and long-term success.
For Diverse Needs
Our programmes cater for individuals, groups from different departments, and intact work teams, including Exco and Manco groups.
Continuous improvement
We always look for ways to improve our services to meet your needs even better. Do not be surprised to find new information or tweaked services next time you visit us.
GETTING YOUR OWN WORK DONE
Outlook Productivity: Boost Your Personal Productivity
Our flagship programme, Outlook Productivity, helps you significantly improve personal productivity using MS Outlook. You’ll save 40 minutes every day, reduce email overwhelm, and prioritise and organise your work more effectively. Experience less work-related stress, stay focused, and master Outlook as your trusted business productivity tool.
The basics of using MS Teams for organising your workload, solo projects, and tasks.
A ‘low-tech’ programme of mastering the personal productivity principles and skills. Achieving clarity of mind and purpose helps to align actions with business goals. Mistakes and rework are minimised by working at the appropriate pace. Managing boundaries effectively enables flexibility, focus and deep work. Continuous improvement is achieved through daily reviews.
WORKING WITH OTHERS
Practical ways to enable highly effective and productive meetings. Not only does it leverage the technology in MS Teams but emphasises principles and processes for having effective meetings.
This course is not a specialised ‘project management’ course. It helps people to almost effortlessly plan, communicate, collaborate, and track their multiple small projects. Technology applied: MS Teams (with Planner, OneNote, ToDo, Update, Loop Components), Outlook, XMind mind mapping software.
A ‘low-tech’ programme of mastering productivity principles and skills in a team context. Achieving clarity of mind and purpose helps to align actions with business goals. Mistakes and rework are minimised by working at the appropriate pace. Managing boundaries effectively enables flexibility, focus and deep work. Continuous improvement is achieved through daily reviews.
For Intact Work Teams
We offer tailored workshops and sessions to enhance team productivity. From improving communication with tools like Microsoft Teams to workshops for eliminating inefficiencies and building high-performance cultures, our goal is to develop skills for sustained team success.
Beyond traditional productivity techniques, we offer sessions geared towards building a high-performance team culture. This includes identifying and leveraging individual strengths, understanding team dynamics, and creating an environment where innovation and excellence are the norms. We will identify how we can exactly meet your team building needs. Our point of departure is The Way of the Starfish.
Each of the courses mentioned above can be tailored to address the specific productivity challenges and objectives of your team. We also work with you to create practical, actionable solutions to help your team to manage joint projects more effectively, enhance creative brainstorming sessions, or streamline task delegation and follow-up.
We focus on improving and simplifying communication within teams, including the use of tools like Microsoft Teams for seamless interaction. Our methods are aimed at fostering open, effective communication channels that reduce misunderstandings, streamline information flow, and enhance decision-making processes.
Our training sessions are designed to reinforce collaborative skills, ensuring that team members can work together more efficiently. This includes practical exercises in collaborative project management, shared goal setting, and leveraging digital collaboration tools to their full potential.
By using the process developed by GE, we work together in a workshop to identify and eliminate inefficiencies that tend to creep into the way teams work. We address one or more of these typical challenges: reports, approvals, meetings, measures, policies, and procedures.
A key area of our expertise is transforming how teams conduct meetings. We provide strategies for conducting focused, outcome-driven meetings, significantly reducing time wastage, and measurably boosting meeting productivity.
1-on-1 Productivity Coaching
Tailored for senior professionals and executives, our one-on-one coaching focuses on high-performance workflow management, optimising decision-making and time management, and co-creating a system that supports their way of thinking and working.
Webinars
Our wide range of webinars caters to broader audiences, offering short, targeted sessions and interactive ‘Productivity Power Hour’ events. Topics range from traditional productivity strategies to off-beat approaches like ‘Harnessing Laziness to Boost Productivity.’
Conclusion
Let’s work together to elevate productivity at every level. Our services are designed to blend people, process, and technology for lasting success. Ready to transform your productivity? Click below to schedule a personalised consultation.