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Eyercize: Chunking Training Online for any text you choose!

Eyercize is a tool that will help you learn how to chunk.

You ca set the pace, font size and more to make for comfortable reading on your screen. This exercise is espacially good for people who has done the ProRead Training. You can use this instead of the Reading Rate Contr… Continue

Added by Goran Askeljung on November 2, 2009 at 2:01pm — No Comments

Lotus Notes eProductivity Tool "ProWork" in beta release today

immediate effects and BAT Groupware in Vienna, Austria today presented their new eProductivity tool ProWork in a beta release at the IBM Lotus Notes After Business Event in Vienna, Austria. Göran Askeljung, Director of immediate effects Ltd. said: "We're very happy to present our new eProductivtiy Tool ProWork that helps Lotus Notes users to work more e… Continue

Added by Goran Askeljung on September 11, 2009 at 12:57am — No Comments

Productivity Magazine #3 is now available, great articles about Getting Things Done

The new issue of Productivity Magazine is now available for Download I'd like to recommend you this summer read with a very insightful interview I happened to have a pleasure doing with - Michael Bungay Stanier - Canadian coach of the Year 2006 and one of the most respected coaches worldwide, a "Creative questioner" how David Allen (of Getting Things Done fame) calls him.

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Added by Goran Askeljung on September 7, 2009 at 1:43pm — No Comments

David did an hour-long podcast this morning for the Leadership Coach Academy for their members. List…

David did an hour-long podcast this morning for the Leadership Coach Academy for their members. Listen as David describes GTD, Making It All Work, and his approach to “elegant lazyness!”

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Added by Goran Askeljung on April 19, 2009 at 6:35pm — No Comments

GTD: Focus on the "End Game"!

The other day, I had a group of IT savvy people in the room talking about Getting Things Done. We did a follow-up on a training I did with them a month earlier. I was amazed by the level of thought and commitment they had put in over the month to get started with GTD and build a system for themselves around it. Most amazing though was the inconsistency of choice how the system would look like!

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Added by Goran Askeljung on March 26, 2009 at 6:01pm — No Comments

When productivity is low, Getting Things Done, makes at least a 20% difference

Press Release Amersfoort, 2nd February 2009 Published here with Permission When productivity is low, Getting Things Done, makes at least a 20% difference Personal productivity is low. Room for productivity improvement in the average employee is high; on a scale of 1-10 the average score is 4.8. Use of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) methodology shows a mimimum of 20% improvement in personal productivity and effectiveness. This was shown in a recent Productivity Scan research con… Continue

Added by Goran Askeljung on February 2, 2009 at 12:25pm — No Comments

Best & Worst Practices of Weekly Review

Kelly is an excellent blogger and is writing a serie on the pros and cons of GTD practises. Well worth reading if you want to tune your system skills on GTD. "Moving on to part four in my five-part series on the best and worst practices of GTD: Mastering Workflow. Next up is the glue, the elixir, the special sauce of GTD--the Weekly Review stage. David Allen calls the Weekly Review, in particular, the critical success factor. It's a key to stress-free productivity and it's probably one of the p… Continue

Added by Goran Askeljung on January 31, 2009 at 12:37pm — No Comments

Six Tools to Help Tackle Overflowing Email

By: Robert Scoble Fri Jan 16, 2009 at 12:06 AM Cheers. Literally, cheers. When I speak at companies like Cisco and implore employees to find email alternatives, they erupt. That's how much corporate America hates email. I'm not surprised. We're drowning in it. The average worker receives 200 a day, according to the research firm Basex. What's worse, there's a lot of important stuff trapped in those messages, but if you're armed… Continue

Added by Goran Askeljung on January 29, 2009 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Fortune's Report on 3 Guru's of Productivity Management

I read the Article and find the conclusion very sound. My own experience with the 3 methodologies is clear in favour for GTD.

The interesting thing is that an… Continue

Added by Goran Askeljung on January 21, 2009 at 12:30am — No Comments

David Allen's "Making It All Work" seminar in Europe!

Getting Things Done® - Making It All Work seminar registration. immediate effects, Life Architect and The David Allen Company are proud to David Allen live with the GTD® Making It All Work seminar. 17 Feb 2009: Dortmund, Germany 19 Feb 2009: Amsterdam, Netherlands Registration and breakfast will begin at 8:00 till 9:00 a.m. The semi… Continue

Added by Goran Askeljung on December 27, 2008 at 4:05pm — No Comments

Save an hour/day with GTD

If you haven't heard abour David Allen or his book "Getting Things Done", often abreviated as GTD, you have missed out on one of the most fast growing movements in self management philosophy and change of behaviour in recent times. GTD is ubiqous in that it affects all areas of you life in a very subtle but life changing way. As self management methods have come and gone, they all have in common a need to take "time awy" to analyse, order and make plans for what you want to keep your focus on.… Continue

Added by Goran Askeljung on November 12, 2008 at 4:38pm — No Comments

GTD crash course - 5 easy steps to get started

David Allen's GTD is a complete system for relieving your brain of a lot of the work it is currently doing, which will enable you to relax and as a result of that become more productive and reduce your stress level. Here is a quick review of how GTD works, in 5 easy steps.

1. Clear Your Mind Record all your commitments to free up mental energy and start accomplishing things. Write down everything i… Continue

Added by Goran Askeljung on October 13, 2008 at 12:17pm — No Comments

Annoyingly slow reading

Isn't it annoying? You just can't go faster even if it is so exciting, like you're reading the latest Dan Brown yarn or something and just want to know what's on the next page the whole time. Well, welcome to the effects of having learned how to read in school at a young age. In those early years, you learned how to read, but you where never taught later in life how to enhance these skills and to read with efficiency - to differentiate between texts depending on purpose - what do I need to know… Continue

Added by Goran Askeljung on September 21, 2008 at 1:38pm — No Comments

GTD has now been scientifically proven to work!

The Free University of Brussel published a paper in March 2008, where the GTD method has now been scientifically proven to work. Read the full paper here... Continue

Added by Goran Askeljung on March 26, 2008 at 5:56pm — No Comments

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