Interview with Productivity Expert Moira Dunne In July 2020 Declan Collins recorded an interview with Productivity Expert Moira Dunne for the HR HQ Podcast. In the podcast Declan and Moira discuss what makes people productive working from home and much, much more. Below is a transcript of the interview. You can listen to the full podcast here. Question: […]
Lessons Learned from the Covid-19 Lockdown As the Covid-19 restrictions start to ease in Ireland many businesses are reopening. The lockdown prompted huge changes. Businesses owners had to pivot and adapt to survive. Many began to trade online. The priority now is getting back to business. But are there any useful lessons learned from the Covid-19 […]
How to Commute while Working from Home One of the perks of working from home is having no commute to deal with every day. We gain extra time each morning and evening. And there is no traffic stress to deal with. But a daily commute does have a benefit. It helps us separate our work […]
Tips to Stay Focused Working from Home Some productivity tips to Stay Focused during Lockdown, first published in May 2020 on the www.thinkbusiness.ie website, a great resource for businesses. We are over two months into the Covid-19 lockdown and at times it can be hard to keep the momentum going. Working from home was a very sudden […]
Leading People Remotely During Covid-19 We’ve all been taken by surprise by the speed of events due to the corona virus. Most people are working from home and for leaders and managers this means a shift in style and approach. Here are some pointers for leading people remotely during Covid-19. The skills are the same leadership […]
Tips on Working at Home During Covid-19 For lots of people working at home is a new way of working. Many are struggling to stay focused and get things done. During the early weeks of lockdown many people asked me for productivity tips. So during the early weeks of the Covid-19 restrictions I ran morning […]
Being Productive During Covid-19 Being productive working from home is not easy in these times of uncertainty. With additional family responsibilities for many the usual tips for Working from Home don’t really apply. If your approach is not working it may be time to try something new. So here are some tips to help you […]
Local Enterprise Week 2020 beproductive.ie presented a workshop called Streamline Your Business for Profit as part of the Local Enterprise Week 2020. It was a hugely successful week in Fingal LEO for Local Enterprise Week in March 2020, with over 1,000 business owners/managers and aspiring entrepreneurs flocking to attend business seminars, enterprise awards, workshops, business clinics, […]
Productivity and Corporate Wellness Most employees want to be productive. If people can’t get their work done they can feel stressed. This causes them to worry. And dspite working hard many employees often feel they are not “on top of things”. There is plenty of research to show that “happy” employees are more productive (1). […]
5 Ways to Stop Procrastination Lots of things can stop us being productive in business today. Some things we can control and some things we can’t. Procrastination can really affect our productivity, but it is usually self-inflicted. In this article we examine this further and present 5 Ways to Stop Procrastination. Procrastination is Stressful We might […]
