by Dr Ken Hudson | May 7, 2013 | Employee Experience, How to boost your productivity, Workshop Facilitator
There is a wonderful article in a recent edition of Fast Company about the two founders of FITiST and how they start their day. It seems the two founders start each day with a run and more importantly conduct their meetings while they run. Here is what one of the...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Feb 26, 2013 | Employee Experience, How to become a creative leader, How to boost your productivity
HR leaders place great store on their annual employee engagement surveys. But i am wondering whether this is the best way to measure employee engagement? For a start these types of surveys are expensive and take a reading at one point in time. Much like going to a...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Jan 21, 2013 | How to accelerate idea generation, How to boost your productivity
Many years ago a Russian psychologist named Bluma Zeigarnik noticed that waiters seemed only to remember orders that were still open and had forgotton orders that had been completed. Her theory which later became known as The Ziegarnik Effect (1927) is that tasks that...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Dec 18, 2012 | Creative Thinking Techniques, How to accelerate idea generation, How to boost your productivity, Speed Thinking
This is early days for Ideas Blitz (the tool of Speed Thinking). But if my experience is any guide there is finally a tool that can unlock the full creative & productivity potential of every individual , group & team. Here is how I have been using this new...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Dec 2, 2012 | Employee Experience, How to accelerate idea generation, How to boost your productivity
Telstra has released the results of their Productivity Indicator – 2011 and I found the results fascinating*. The two key highlights are: 1. Improving productivity is a top priority for 76% of large Australian Organisations. Second only to improving the customer...
by Dr Ken Hudson | Dec 2, 2012 | Creative Thinking Techniques, How to boost your productivity
We all have to achieve ‘more and more’ with ‘less and less’. This is causing stress, exhaustion, burn-out and for many, a strained work-life balance. To break-out of this negative cycle we need to improve our productivity by working smarter not harder. This sounds...