1. Love your work
Workshops with at-desk coaching to help you increase productivity,
experience playful momentum and feel more in control.

2. Why we’re different
Our uniquely practical approach…
At-desk coaching:
Unlike other training companies, we’re passionate about making sure people implement
the things we cover on our workshops straight away so that real change happens. We
structure our sessions to include workshop-room time as well as at-desk coaching. So
on ‘Getting Your Inbox to Zero’ for example, people actually GET their inboxes to zero by
the end of the 3 hours - not just talk about it.
Blended learning:
We see learning as a process that happens from the moment your delegates receive their
invite to the workshop, right through to the weeks and months afterwards. We offer an
email follow-up service to help make sure the learning sticks. We’re also available on
email if your team have any follow-up questions and we love sharing our own
experiences with a full range of different tools - between us, we know all the best tips and
tricks for Outlook, Gmail, PC, Mac, pen and paper, iPhone, Blackberry and whatever else
you might use!

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which gave us an opportu are the most useful training
find practical solutions. ”
problems and helped us to that but it’s true! I don’t know if
ays on. I never say things like
Alison Jenson, British Airw have definitely felt calmer
and less
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stressed since the session
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“I liked that we got to work on our
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Bharat Vadgam Bristol
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mmercial Bank Giles Couzin, University of

4. Practical In-House workshops,
How to Get Things Done
Time management, but for the
immediate changes…
information age: learn how to manage
attention, focus, projects, actions,
priorities and decisions. This workshop
will give you the ninja tips, tricks and
tools to get more done in less time
and with a lot less stress.
Getting Your Inbox to Zero To book our in-house workshops,
Introducing the ‘inbox zero’ email info@thinkproductive.co.uk Format: 1 day / 6 hours
methodology: Cut down on the or call us on +44 (0) 1273 913217 3 hour workshop then 3 hours at-desk coaching
time and stress caused by email Maximum delegates: 15
overload and make friends with Result: 82% of delegates implement a new
your email again. workflow system & feel more in control of their work
Format: 3 hours
1.5 hour workshop,
1.5 hour at-desk coaching Making Meetings Magic
Maximum delegates: 15 How to stop meetings being
Result: 96% of delegates get inboxes to zero a pointlessly long-winded
waste of time and
make them fresh,
Email Etiquette impactful, action-orientated,
The average worker spends 41% of their time on email productive and even fun.
management. This workshop is a priceless opportunity for
Format: 3 hours
your team to discuss and plan how to make
email easier and more effective for everyone. 1 hour workshop, 1 hour group work,
1 hour implementation coaching
Format: 3 hours
Maximum delegates: 15
1 hour workshop, 1 hour at-desk coaching,
Result: 92% have planned up-coming meetings
1 hour group work
to be more effective
Maximum delegates: 15
Result: Your team develops an Smells Like Team Spirit
email manifesto to make email easier A team should be greater and more productive
than the sum of its parts. This workshop shows
you how to cut out the unnecessary stuff
How to be a Productivity Ninja and create a healthy, fun and productive
working environment for your people.
We have developed a unique, ninja-like approach to
productivity. This short workshop will give you an overview Format: 3 hours
of how we work and show you how
Format: 1.5 hours 3 hour workshop with group-work and practical at-desk time
to keep a zen-like calm as well as
1.5 hour workshop with discussion and action-planning an agile ruthlessness in the face of Maximum delegates: 15
Maximum delegates: unlimited the enemy – information overload. Result: Your team makes changes to its physical and digital
Result: individual action plans to develop ninja-level Ideal for lunch and learn, taster environments and makes practical plans to improve
workshops or conference slots.
productivity skills productivity

5. Our story
Think Productive was founded by Graham Allcott in 2009, after he made the transition
from charity Chief Executive to freelance consultant. For the first 2 years as a freelancer,
he was suddenly working without a personal assistant and a great team of ‘do-ers’
and having to rely on himself to be organised, productive and motivated.
Graham’s ‘lightbulb moment’ was after reading David Allen’s “Getting Things Done” (GTD),
a book which ironically had sat gathering dust on his shelf during his busy, stressed-out Chief
Executive days! It led on to him discovering a whole range of productivity books, blogs, ideas
and practical tools which could be of real benefit to individuals and organisations, whilst at the
same time as a consultant he was seeing the waste that goes on – not through negligence,
but from the stress and chaos of information overload.
Think Productive was born. Our vision is “to make a million people in the UK happier by helping
them replace ‘information stress’ with playful, productive momentum”.
We’d love you to be part of making it happen!
Our ethics
Think Productive has adopted a ‘social business’ approach from day one.
We believe passionately in doing business in the right way, including...
Sustainability - We are passionate about environmental sustainability: We operate as a
carbon-neutral company, we only use recycled paper and we constantly review our
environmental sustainability and ethical purchasing.
Charities - We help charities in a variety of ways: We offer discounts so
that charities can access our workshops and our founder Graham Allcott
also donates his time to 3 charities at board-level and mentors social
entrepreneurs. We also run our own initiative, “Girls, Stay in School”,
which each year provides 2 scholarships for girls at Bhukhabusi Primary
School in Uganda to fund their entire secondary education. It helps the
girls and their families escape poverty but also helps the school promote
awareness of women’s rights in the area.
Being a good employer - Think Productive’s early development also saw it train three people
back into work after periods of unemployment through the Future Jobs Fund. We continue to
offer work experience, internships and apprenticeships as the business grows.

6. Public workshops
How to Get Things Done & Getting Your Inbox to Zero
As well as our in-house workshops with ‘at-desk coaching’ for organisations, we also run open
access public versions of our two most popular workshops in cities across the UK.
Our one-day How to Get Things Done workshop will leave you with a greater sense of
clarity and control. We will introduce you to principles from David Allen (GTD), Stephen Covey
(7 habits) and other leading thinkers on personal productivity but crucially we’ll also help you to
develop your own personal workflow system on the day. Not just a workshop but a
do-shop too!
Our half-day Getting Your Inbox to Zero workshop also follows our uniquely practical
approach: turn up with your laptop and we’ll coach you through principles from Merlin Mann
(Inbox Zero), Peter Drucker and David Allen and show you how to email like a Ninja!
To book, visit our website and click on “Public Workshops” to find
your nearest city.
Full Price .............................................................................. £325
SME/Public Sector/Large Charity Discount Price ................. £225
Small Charity/Micro-business/Freelancer Discount Price ..... £125
Get a Productivity Ninja in your office!
Think Productive has a network of Productivity Ninjas based
in cities around the UK, ensuring that we are never far away
should you want to book an in-house workshop with us.
Our Productivity Ninjas are exceptional people and are
not your common or garden freelance trainer!
They all ‘walk the talk’ when it comes to their own
productivity and are brilliant at training and inspiring others.
If you want to book a Productivity Ninja to deliver workshops in your
company, email hello@thinkproductive.co.uk and we’ll explain more!

7. Too much information = stress
= unproductive behaviour
1 in 5 people in the UK are off work with stress each year
(Lotus Exchange)
A recent study of Microsoft workers found that it took 15mins
to return to serious mental tasks after an interruption
(New York Times 2007)
Workers spend 41% of their time on email management
(Radicati Group)
71% of meetings are not productive
(Microsoft study)
59% of middle managers in the UK and USA admit to missing important
information almost every day in their jobs because they can’t find it
(Accenture/Wall St Journal)
90% of managers squander time on ineffective activities
(Harvard Business Review)
65% of those earning £40k or more waste time
trying to find emails compared to 49% of those
earning less than £25k
(Egan Email Solutions)
46% of people are unsure what to do when
given tasks to do by their line manager
(HR magazine, UK)
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To get in touch with a Productivity Ninja near you
email hello@thinkproductive.co.uk +44 (0) 1273 913217