Sticky Learning Lunches #42: Think You Don't Need to Attend This Webinar?

This 7-part model will help you to find out what is wrong with your time management.

You will learn:

- Each of the 7 parts of the time management system.

- How each part is essential to creating an effective time management system.

- The holes that are exposed in your time management system by not having any one of the 7 pieces.

- Practical tips to incorporate any one of the 7 parts of the time management system.

- The strengths and weaknesses of your time management system.

You Can Read the Full Transcript Below:

Nathan Simmonds:

Oh God, there we are. Congratulations we made it. Welcome to Monday. Excited to be here. Excited to be sharing. Excited to see so many wonderful, beautiful people already. We're just as always gonna wait for the last few people just to arrive in the room, get themselves ready. Abby, thank you for being here. Colin, as always appreciated. Fabian, wonderful to see you again. Tim, Victoria, thank you so very much. I'm just looking down at the list of people coming into the room.

Nathan Simmonds:

It's Monday, it's beautiful weather outside. I hope you have sunshine where you are, so you give it 30 seconds. Good afternoon, Darren. On a scale of one to 10, for all your wonderful people that are here, how are we feeling about this week? One terrible, 10, fully, you know, primed. Ready to go? How are we feeling about this week? Got some tens. Got some eight. Strong nine. Nice, strong nine. What, what's stopping it from being a 10? Victoria? If it's a strong nine, what would make it a 10?

Improve your time management skills

 

Darren Smith:

Good.

Nathan Simmonds:

To see you, Rihanna. Thank you for joining. I hope I pronounced that right, not having so many back to backs. Agreed. We've talked a little bit about that inside the time management side of things. Let's just make, you know, one thing we can be making sure is know, giving ourselves a little bit of breather to decompress from one meeting and declutter. And then get those things off, you know, captured on the right lists, uh, and and stored in the right way. And then give us those a few minutes to get to the next session. So actually we've got a clear mind.

Nathan Simmonds:

Next week is better. Nice. Good. Let's dive in. Gotta make sure I've got all the right pens in the right places. Welcome to today's Sticky Learning Lunch with me, Nathan Simmons, senior leadership coach and trainer for MBM Making Business Matter, the home of sticky learning and the provider of leadership development and soft skills to the grocery and manufacturing industry. Idea of these lunches is to give you 20 to 30 minutes of micro learning is gonna help you be the best version of you in the work that you do from wherever you are right now, whether that's at home or whether that is that you've returned to the office or that you are, you know, in the middle of those two spaces.

Nathan Simmonds:

Just some core content that's is gonna help you raise your awareness, raise your thinking, and raise your impact. So first things first, let's get you set up for success. As always, mobile phones, let's make sure they are on flight mode. Little airplane is lit. Zero out the distraction, a hundred percent attention. Also, as always, fresh page, fresh thinking. Let's make sure you've got a nice clean sheet there so that you can document your thinking. Top of that page, you're gonna write keepers and these are the things that you wanna remember, that you want to be reminded of so you can reignite that new thinking when you go back and reread it.

Nathan Simmonds:

Drinks, I've got my herbal tea here. Make sure you're hydrated and you're keeping the brain lubricated. Before we even dive into this, I'm gonna make sure that I do this now with you right now. If you have not signed up for tomorrow's session, the link for tomorrow's sticky learning lunch is gonna be in the chat box. Now,

Sticky Learning Lunches #41: Think You Don't Need to Attend This Webinar?

This 7-part model will help you to find out what is wrong with your time management.

You will learn:

- Each of the 7 parts of the time management system.

- How each part is essential to creating an effective time management system.

- The holes that are exposed in your time management system by not having any one of the 7 pieces.

- Practical tips to incorporate any one of the 7 parts of the time management system.

- The strengths and weaknesses of your time management system.

You Can Read the Full Transcript Below:

Nathan Simmonds:

Welcome to today's Sticky Learning Lunch. Good afternoon, Colin. Good to see you, Fabian. Thank you, Howard. Tim, vj, good to see you again. Thanks for being here. Bas around. Thank you for being here. We're just gonna give you a couple of minutes while more people are arriving. Just conscious of time. So I know a couple of people are still coming into the room. Let's just give that a moment just to settle.

Nathan Simmonds:

Looking forward to today's session. Excited to be here. Let's get everyone set up for success as always. Let's make sure I can see what's going on. Good afternoon, Anne. Good to see you. Let's dive in and as the other people start as, as they are still arriving, let's let them get into the room. But let's make sure we are setting ourselves up for success in this space right now. As always, there's a phone call, not always, but there was a phone call from my mum. I'll have to speak to her later. Um, let's make sure. Mobile phone.

Nathan Simmonds:

So let's get this on flight mode. Zero out the distraction, a hundred percent attention. I'll speak to my mum later. Also, making sure you've got a drink available. Staying hydrated, keeping the brain fluid and moving so that we can ma maximize the, uh, the development and the learning that's happening here. Hello Gina. Hello, Gareth. Good to see you both again. Thank you very much for being here. Fresh page, fresh thinking. Let's make sure we're setting up that notepad in the right way so you get the right information.

Improve your time management skills with these 7 hurdles

 

Nathan Simmonds:

At the top of the page, you're gonna write keepers and these are the things you wanna remember. Remind yourself and reignite as you go back and reread those notes to, to, to create new ideas, new thoughts from the learnings that you get from today. And it helps to embed that learning and make it really stick and, and support that behavioral change that helps you to deliver a better result next time.

Nathan Simmonds:

All set, he says, got the right color. Pens in hand, I think. Welcome to today's Sticky Learning lunch with me, Nathan Simmons, senior leadership coach and trainer for MBM making Business Matter, the home of Sticky Learning. And we are the leadership skills and soft skills provider to the grocery and manufacturing industry. I do with these lunchtime sessions is to give you 20 to 30 minutes of core content that's gonna help you be the best version of you in the work that you do, whether that's at home or if it's you returning back to the office after this current situation.

Nathan Simmonds:

It. Let's get into this part. Where are we now? Uh, 1, 2, 3, 4, part five. Part five is hurdle number five of time management. So let's give you a super fast rundown of what's going on. I can see some regular faces here. So we are at hurdle number five. Question for you all for to to, to light up the questions box with what have you got so far that's at the top of your list that you want to prioritize or action or make sure you embed that's gonna help you improve your time management?

Nathan Simmonds:

What's one thing that you've taken away from these recent sessions that's helping to improve your time management right now? Let's see those in the questions box and see what's changing in the world for you all as a result of these sticky learning lu...

Sticky Learning Lunches #40: Think You Don't Need to Attend This Webinar?

This 7-part model will help you to find out what is wrong with your time management.

You will learn:

- Each of the 7 parts of the time management system.

- How each part is essential to creating an effective time management system.

- The holes that are exposed in your time management system by not having any one of the 7 pieces.

- Practical tips to incorporate any one of the 7 parts of the time management system.

- The strengths and weaknesses of your time management system.

You Can Read the Full Transcript Below:

Nathan Simmonds:

Where's that button? Let's go. Share screen. We are in sticky learning. Lunch people, good to be here. Welcome to today's Sticky Learning Lunch. We've got that midweek feeling, which I don't believe in. We've got a handful of people that have arrived. We're just waiting for the next few people to come in, as always. Abby, hello again, Abby. Good to see you. Colin. Thank you for being here, Fabian. Very welcome as always. Lynn. Good to see you again. Petra, thank you very much for being here Again, Tim, Tracy, Victoria. Beautiful. Thank you so much for your investment in yourself and engaging with the content today. Just a few more seconds while we get those people in the room.

Improve your time management skills with these 7 hurdles

 

Nathan Simmonds:

Another mouthful of tea. And then we're gonna dive into today's content. Let's get ourselves set up while we're just waiting for those to arrive. As always, never changes. It's the same distractions that we always put into our days. Mobile phones, flight mode. Zero outta distraction. A hundred percent attention. Ah, making sure you've got drinks, you are hydrated. Couple more people arriving. Jane's arrived. Good to see you. Thank you for being here, Jane.

Nathan Simmonds:

Fresh page, fresh thinking at the top of the page for today's learning is hurdle number four. It's all about the ing and we're gonna break that down in a minute just to help you with some ideas and habits that potentially have formed and calcified over time, which is actually wasting your time. So we're gonna look a little bit into this. We're gonna look, build some skills from yesterday a little bit further, and we're gonna look at some of those habits that are built over time or Colin's saying's. Got no audio, Colin's, that's all right.

Nathan Simmonds:

Colin's gone out and come back in. Can everyone else hear me? Yes or no? Yes, yes, yes. Good. Ready to highlight more areas that can improve on, that's what we are here for. That is what we are here for. Good. Let's dive in and do this. Let's get the intros flying as we always do. And for those that arrive in a minute, they can get caught off in just a second. Welcome to today's Sticky Learning lunch with me, Nathan Simmons, senior leadership coach and trainer for MBM, making Business Matter, home of Sticky Learning.

Nathan Simmonds:

And we are the leadership development and soft skills provider for the grocery and manufacturing industry. Idea of these sessions is to give you new ideas, new concepts and approaches that are gonna help you be the best version of you in the work that you do. Whether it's right now while you're at home and or while you are preparing to return back to work after whatever situation you are currently in. Wherever you are around the world. Fingers crossed, staying safe, staying well. This session is all about as part four of our time management and our, uh, our hurdles that we experience in time management.

Nathan Simmonds:

So we've already covered, I'm gonna go through the flow chart again just so we've got it and we're embedding this, um, for each of these sessions, top one as we've got it is capturing where are we actually capturing the information? Where is that information um, happening? Is it in the meeting? Is it in our email? Is it a voicemail? Is it, um, a, a voice recording process?

Sticky Learning Lunch #39: Think You Don't Need to Attend This Webinar?

This 7-part model will help you to find out what is wrong with your time management in this episide called I Don't Need to Attend this Webinar Part 3.

You will learn:

- Each of the 7 parts of the time management system.

- How each part is essential to creating an effective time management system.

- The holes that are exposed in your time management system by not having any one of the 7 pieces.

- Practical tips to incorporate any one of the 7 parts of the time management system.

- The strengths and weaknesses of your time management system.

You Can Read the Full Transcript Below:

Nathan Simmonds:

Good afternoon, sticky learning lunch, one o'clock. We are just gonna give it a couple more minutes while we're waiting for people to arrive, just watching and seeing who's entering the ring. So good to see so many friendly regular faces. Thank you very much for being here, Abby. Good to see you again. Alexandra, good to see you again. Thank you for being here, Colin, as always. Thank you Fabian. Gareth, it's amazing. Howard Jane, Samantha, thank you very much for coming back. Samantha, Tim, good to see you again, Vicki Victoria. Amazing, amazing, amazing, amazing right pen in pockets. Let's get ready for this.

Improve your time management with these 7 hurdles

 

Nathan Simmonds:

Might even have a blue pen that might work today. See where we get to. If anything this, no, this sticky learning lunches have done the world of favors for Q Connect on whiteboard markers because I've used a fair few of them for you in these sessions. Last few seconds while we're letting people come in. Everyone as always, mobile phones, you've got 20 minutes. This is a sticky learning lunch. This is all about you. It's not about your messages, it's not about your email, it's not about your pings, beeps, buzzes, whatever. A hundred percent attention on you. So let's zero out the distraction, get it on flight mode and let's make it all about you for 20 to 30 minutes, making sure you're hydrated. I've got drinks available today is brought to you by pucker herbs. Three ginger, very nice too.

Nathan Simmonds:

Helping keep the drone focused and making sure the final one as always. And then hopefully after doing this for six weeks, we've got some of this embedded in fresh sheet, fresh thinking, top of the page keepers, things you wanna remember to remind yourself and reignite that thinking. Let's make this learning stick. Okay? Let's really make some behavioral change here and embed some of this thinking at a deeper level. Ah, a few more people arriving. Good, glad you're all here. So where are we going today? First of all, welcome. Let's get the welcomes in properly. Welcome to this Sticky learning lunch with me, Nathan Simmons, senior leadership coach and trainer for MBM Making Business Matter. Homer sticky learning idea with these lunchtime learnings is to help you be the best version of you in the work that you do.

Nathan Simmonds:

Why? Because we are the leadership development and soft skills provider to the retail and grocery industry. And we wanna share some of these ideas. And these are un uncommon ideas shared in uncommon ways that get uncommon results. Now, if you want average, do what everyone else does. If you want exceptional, do incredible things. And I wanna share some of these ideas that I've learned over 23 years of leadership development and experience and give them to you so that you can help make some of those moves yourself today.

Nathan Simmonds:

Part three of the seven Hurdles of Time Management. So where are we going today? Emptying is where we're going. So quick rundown, quick rundown of where we were before day one, capturing, then we go into emptying here, emptying, and then we go over here and we've got listing. So lifting was day two and we talked about that already.

Nathan Simmonds:

Emptying we're gonna talk about today,

Sticky Learning Lunches #38: Think You Don't Need to Attend This Webinar?

This 7-part model will help you to find out what is wrong with your time management.

You will learn:

- Each of the 7 parts of the time management system.

- How each part is essential to creating an effective time management system.

- The holes that are exposed in your time management system by not having any one of the 7 pieces.

- Practical tips to incorporate any one of the 7 parts of the time management system.

- The strengths and weaknesses of your time management system.

You Can Read the Full Transcript Below:

Nathan Simmonds:

Good afternoon. Welcome to Sticky Learning Lunches Monday. Excited, brilliant day of the week. To kick things off, we are just gonna give it a few more minutes while the handful of people come in. Excited to see so many people this week, some new faces, some longstanding friends. Thank you for being here, Abby. Good to see you again. Andre. Thank you again. Colin, as always, I think you are the one person that has attended every single session pretty much.

Nathan Simmonds:

Stuart, thank you for being here. Karen, Howard, Gina, Gareth, Fabian. Vicki. Thank you, Victoria Moore, thank you for being here. Just gonna give it 20 seconds, maybe more, or the last few people are arriving. As always, let's get ourselves set up for success. Mobile phones, hold 'em high, let's get 'em on. Airplane mode, zero out the distraction. A hundred percent attention on you being here and investing in your mindset to help you deliver better results.

Find out the 7-part time management model and whether you need to attend this webinar

 

Nathan Simmonds:

Thank you, Colin. It's appreciated, right? Also, hydration, herbal teas, coffees, whatever it is, you need water to make sure that you're keeping your mind lubricated so that you can get the best from this. The third thing that we always do to set up the success in this situation is get yourself a fresh page for fresh thinking. So at the top of that page in your notepad, you're gonna write keepers as always, keepers at the top. It's the things that you want to remind yourselves about.

Nathan Simmonds:

It's the things you wanna remember when you reread it. It's those things that you want to help reignite that learning and make sure that it sticks. 'cause That's what we're all about. That's why it's called Sticky learning Lunches. 'cause We want this stuff to stick, not because it's a gooey lunch. Happy to hear kind. Thank you very much for letting me know that the cards are starting to arrive as well.

Nathan Simmonds:

I know that a lot of you have ordered the cards and we are very thankful for that. From ourselves at Making Business matter it's really important. We have had some challenges with getting these out to people just for current circumstances. This isn't the normal procedure, this isn't the normal times that we're living in. They are arriving, they are landing on doormats. I have mine somewhere in this very office, so they are starting to arrive so massively from me.

Nathan Simmonds:

Thanks very much for the patience. While these are arriving, let's dive into today's session. Welcome to today's Sticky Learning lunch with me, Nathan Simmons, senior leadership coach for MBM Making Business Matter and with a leadership development and soft skills provider to the grocery and manufacturing industry. Idea about these sessions is to give you a micro learning to help you be the best version of you in the work that you do.

Nathan Simmonds:

And whether that's at home, in the office, or even just returning to the office, it's just about helping you to upgrade and shift the thinking with one or two ideas that's gonna help make a a massive improvement. What are we covering today? Part two of the seven Hurdles of time management. So this is about listing what I wanted to do though. One of the points came through, I dove straight in on, on Friday with that first element,

Grocery Guru Episode #34: New UK HFSS Laws on High in Fat, Salt or Sugar Foods

Join Andrew Grant and Darren A. Smith in the thirty-fourth episode of the Grocery Guru. They discuss HFSS New Laws: High in Fat, Salt, or Sugar Foods. These are products that will be stopped from being sited on secondary spaces in-store, and cannot be volume promoted. The HFSS New Laws will affect all stores over 2,000 feet and including symbol stores, like Spar.

You Can View the Full HFSS New Laws Transcript Below:

Darren A. Smith:

Hello, and welcome to episode 34 of the Grocery Guru. We're here with that guru, who is Andrew Grant. Andrew, how are you doing?

Andrew Grant:

Morning, Darren. Yes, very good. Are you well?

Darren A. Smith:

I'm very well. It's Friday. What's in our postbag? What's on your mind? What's the world talking about today, in the world of grocery?

Andrew Grant:

Yeah. It's, I think, yesterday, all you could hear about, other than England playing Germany next week, was HFSS. It doesn't exactly slip off the tongue. It's nothing to do with a train line about to go past your house, but I think it's a pretty big deal, actually.

Darren A. Smith:

All right. So, HFSS. Let's treat me like an idiot. No comments invited. HFSS, what does that mean?

Andrew Grant:

Okay. I won't get you to guess. High fat, salt, and sugar foods. For people in the industry, the impulse category, basically. Some pretty serious legislation coming down the tracks, and actually, potentially will be enforced on the 1st of April 2022, which by my reckoning is 279 days away.

There will be HFSS New Laws commencing in April 2022 for HFSS foods

 

Darren A. Smith:

It is, [inaudible 00:01:23].

Andrew Grant:

If the legislation goes through as I've read it, seismic changes to all those foods that will be classed as high fat, sugar, and salt. We're talking fizzy drinks, we're talking soft drinks, cakes, biscuits, chocolate, crisps, snacks, even processed ready meals, and stuff like that.

Darren A. Smith:

Wow. All right. Let's do what our Americans say, let's unbox this with you, [inaudible 00:01:55].

Andrew Grant:

Ooh.

Darren A. Smith:

Let's unbox it. So HFSS is about salty, sugary foods. I think I do know a little bit about this. You said it's the biggest change in enforced dietary changes since the World War, the Second World War?

Andrew Grant:

Yeah. If you think about it, I'm sure we all remember Jamie Oliver on the Turkey Twizzlers. The government, over the last 10 years, has made a lot of changes encouraging, and in some regards forcing, manufacturers to change formulations.

Darren A. Smith:

Yeah.

Andrew Grant:

To reduce the amount of salt, to reduce the amount of sugar. There's obviously been the watershed advertising bans.

Darren A. Smith:

Yep.

Andrew Grant:

Not allowed to advertise these products to kids, or in schools.

Darren A. Smith:

Yep.

Andrew Grant:

Sort of round the edges, but what they're proposing for next April, as far as retailers and suppliers are concerned, goes one hell of a step further. That is to ban the siting of those foods anywhere other than on the shelf, their home shelves. So you can't have sweets on checkouts. A lot of the retailers have made that decision themselves, but that will be illegal.

No siting of sweets or these HFSS products anywhere near the checkouts, within two meters of the entrance. Then probably the biggest, you won't be able to volume-promote these products. So you'll be able to price-promote, I believe, but you won't be able to do BOGOFs, extra-frees, twofers. If you think of the impulse category, certainly back in my day, something like 70% of a brand's volume in those categories went through on deal.

Darren A. Smith:

Let's bring that to life. If I'm walking through the central aisle of a Tesco or a Sainsbury's, and I see the gondola end and it's packed with M&M's, with the little round man with the funny hands-

Andrew Grant:

Yep.

Darren A. Smith:

No more?

Weekly Training Booster Episode #5: Improve How You Deal With Conflict

Join Andy Palmer and Darren A. Smith in the fifth episode of the Weekly Training Booster. This episode was about how to deal with conflict, or manage conflict. We discussed how important tone is to the situation, the use of irritators, and the Thomas-Kilman conflict behavioural model.

You Can Read the How to Deal With Conflict Episode Transcript Below:

Andy Palmer:

Okay. We're back here again with an MBM Weekly Training Booster. This is number five. Today we're talking about conflict resolution. So Darren and I had a huge disagreement this morning over something that felt quite trivial at the time, but it's caused us quite a bit of friction between the pair of us. Now, we're both going head to head and yet we're trying to figure out if we had our time again, how could we manage our conflicts better? How could we get conflict resolution faster? So Darren, if we had our time again, what would you and I have done differently?

Darren A. Smith:

I think what I read about conflict is that everyone says, "Just calm down, listen, do it properly." But actually, when you're in conflict, you basically want to beat the other person to a pulp. I get that. So telling us that we need to calm down and it shouldn't matter, I get why people are saying that. Actually, I'm not sure that achieves the behavioral change that we're looking for because what we're really looking for is to understand that it happens. The adrenaline's pumping, we're in conflict and I think what we need to know is what's going on more in our heads at that time. And I want to share a couple of models that hopefully will help people understand what is going on in their heads, which I think then will calm them down rather than just telling them, "You need to be calmer."

Andy Palmer:

All right, good stuff. I think the calming down a bit's important just to take the heat out of the situation. And yet the psychology that sits behind the reason why we're already in that place and then what we can do is where the true value and the importance comes from. So let's hear about this first model that's in your mind right now.

Darren A. Smith:

Okay. So it's Thomas Kilmann. These guys came up with a model many years ago and it says that we have five ways of dealing with conflict and we have a default, one of them. So if we can understand which one we are defaulting to, that will help us understand how we deal with conflict normally because that's our default behavior. Now, once we understand that stuff and we understand it well and we're trained in it, we can then move into using other behaviors, because the challenge isn't to stop having conflict, the challenges to manage conflict using other behaviors.

So as an example, one of the behaviors is avoid. Now everyone sees that as the weak one, but it's not because sometimes you just need to walk away. So one of the five default behaviors is avoid. And if we can plant that in people's heads, then maybe one in 100 arguments, if they're really in conflict, they might just walk away because they'll live to fight another day.

Andy Palmer:

Yeah, absolutely. I think depending upon the level of conflict and of attention of where that could then go, being mindful of actually making a conscious effort to avoid escalation can be super powerful and why some people will have an avoiding mode just by default. It allows them to at least select it or be aware of where they're at.

Darren A. Smith:

It does. And avoiding isn't the weak one, all five are exactly equal.

Improve how you deal with conflict with this week's WTB

Andy Palmer:

Good. Okay. So, that's avoiding. Tell us about one of the other styles.

Darren A. Smith:

Well, I'll go right to the other end, the one that I am. And again, each of these has their strength and weakness. So on our Kilmann model, there's competing. And the phrase that people would use to describe competing is might is right.

Weekly Training Booster Ep#4: Make Working From Home More Effective

Join Andy Palmer and Darren A. Smith in the fourth episode of the Weekly Training Booster. This episode was about how to work from home effectively. Also, known as remote working. We discuss the M.I.N.D.S.E.T. mnemonic that will help you to work from home more productively.

You Can Read the How to Work From Home Effectively Episode Transcript Below:

Andy Palmer:

Okay. Good morning or good afternoon, depending on when you're watching this video. Welcome to this week's MBM Weekly Training Booster. So we're running these 10-minute videos all of you to help boost your training, with lots of top tips, useful techniques that you can apply, whether you're working from home or back in the office, which I know a number of us are starting to return to. Mentioning that, that's exactly what this week's about. It's about how to work from home effectively. It's about managing role, remote working, and bringing to life some of that stuff that we've all got going on, and how to overcome some of those challenges. So, Darren, good morning to you. Let's hear your first top tip about how to work remotely.

Darren A. Smith:

All right. So we've got an infographic on this and also a mnemonic. Mnemonic is just the Greek word for remember. And I'm going to offer this mnemonic, which is MINDSET. So imagine those seven letters and each one represents something. That's how we can help these guys work remotely better.

Andy Palmer:

All right. We won't talk through all of those letters, but if you were to grab one or two, which ones come to mind from MINDSET?

Darren A. Smith:

I think I'm going to go right over to here, to the S, S for sierra, but in this case, it's S for space. A lot of people struggle with working from home, and they've got used to it, but they're still now in a place where they're probably at the kitchen table. They might have the kids running around or the husband's coming in or it's the husband working and the wife's there. And it's a space. Now I get not everyone's got a place where they can have separate spaces, and I didn't for a long time. But if you can have a separate space, even if you make it a part of the living room or part of another room, it's much better, because otherwise, you're always at work and over time, you'll resent it. Because if you're at the kitchen table working, but then you're there eating, but then you're there doing the kids' homework, you're always working. So separate space is what S is for.

Andy Palmer:

Good. I like that one. I think you're right. It's that differential between, that's my home space and that's my work space. As lots of people are now embracing a hybrid way of working, whether that's being in the office for a couple of days a week. I think I heard the phrase TWaTs mentioned not so long ago. So just to clarify that, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. People maybe are in the office for those days, home for the Monday and Friday, or vice versa. But important to have that space. All right, good stuff. Good. I could grab a letter, but I'll let you pick one.

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Darren A. Smith:

Okay. All right. So the next one I'd like to talk about is the N, N for November, but in this case, N stands for neat. I [inaudible 00:02:46] that a bit to make the MINDSET work, but I'm sure they'll let us off. Neat is about making sure... Again, that mindset is so important, which is why the mnemonic is MINDSET. We need three separate wardrobes. Now, I can only imagine anyone's bedroom, certainly not in mine. [inaudible 00:03:02] three separate wardrobes. In my head, I've got work clothes. This is what I wear when it comes to work. I've got clothes when I actually go into the office, and then I've got clothes where I'm just chilling. I try and make sure they're different; otherwise again, we blur the lines between work and home and all goes a bit crazy on our heads.

Sticky Learning Lunches #37: Think You Don't Need to Attend This Webinar?

This 7-part model will help you to find out what is wrong with your time management. Today's episode is I Don't Need to Attend this Webinar Part 1.

You will learn:

- Each of the 7 parts of the time management system.

- How each part is essential to creating an effective time management system.

- The holes that are exposed in your time management system by not having any one of the 7 pieces.

- Practical tips to incorporate any one of the 7 parts of the time management system.

- The strengths and weaknesses of your time management system.

You Can Read the Full Transcript Below:

Nathan Simmonds:

Welcome to today's Sticky Learning Lunch. It's Friday. It's exciting. Monday's exciting. Friday's exciting. Every day is exciting and we're gonna be delivering some exciting content that's gonna help you get a bit more focus with what you're doing. Just giving it a few more minutes while we're waiting for the last people to arrive into the room. Xavier, massive shout out to you for being so early. Really, really appreciated.

Nathan Simmonds:

Good to see you Tim. Good to see Janine again. Jane, hello. Thank you for being here. Fabian, Darren. Colin, thank you for being here. Who else have we got in at the moment? Abby, good to see you. Just gonna give it 10, 15 more seconds just to let the last few people arrive. We won't hold it against anyone if they're late, even though this is time management. Just kidding.

Find out the 7-part time management model and whether you need to attend this webinar

 

Nathan Simmonds:

Ah yeah, just remember bun. Wanna see a sub, right? Just while we're setting everyone up for success, let's make sure we get this right. Mobile phones as always, flight mode, zero out the distraction. A hundred percent attention on what we're doing here today. A hundred percent Focus on who you are, what you need to get out of this, and how you're gonna develop yourself. The only investment that is ever guaranteed is the one that you make in yourself. And if you're going to that with any vague intentions, you're only ever gonna get a vague output.

Nathan Simmonds:

So let's be super clear on that. Phone's off, emails closed down. Close down Your social media feeds a hundred percent attention on you in this second thing. As always, fresh page, fresh thinking, fresh page in the notepad at the top, you're gonna write keepers up there is gonna be the things you want to keep hold of the things you wanna remember. Remind yourself about the things that you want to, to reignite that imagination and keep that thinking going and keep the learning sticky. And then finally, making sure you've got a drink available. We're gonna go into this in just one more second. Good afternoon Karen. Good to see you.

Nathan Simmonds:

Let's go then. So welcome to today's Sticky Learning lunch with me. Nathan Simmons, senior leadership coach and trainer for MBM Making Business Matter, home of Sticky Learning. And we are the leadership development and soft skills provider to the grocery and manufacturing industry. Idea of these sticky learning, these sticky lunches is to give you new information, new ideas that's gonna help you take your skillset to a whole new level.

Nathan Simmonds:

Helping you be the best version of you in the work that you do right today. Well actually not just today, for the next seven days, we're gonna be looking at time management and the hurdles that go with our time management and the hurdles that we need to overcome to make sure we're doing the best that we can with the time and the space that we have available. On a scale of one to 10, one being terrible, 10 being phenomenal, how is your time management right now? I've got an eight coming in. Ivy, great to see you again. Thank you for being here.

Nathan Simmonds:

We've got a five, we've got an eight, got a nice mix of numbers already coming through. Haha,

Sticky Learning Lunches #36: Keep Putting Off Your To-Do List?

Today's topic, Annoyed That You Keep Putting Off Tasks Part 3. Find out why you procrastinate, how to avoid it, and simple tips to start doing the tasks that you are putting off.

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Nathan Simmonds:

Good afternoon, sticky learning. Lunches. Lunches. Gonna give a couple more seconds while we wait for the last few people to come into the room. Good afternoon, Colin. Darren, good to see you, Tim. Welcome as always, just as we're getting ourselves in, just gonna make sure, let's get these phones on flight mode, zero out the distraction, a hundred percent attention. Just gonna give it a moment. Hello, Claire. Good to see you. Welcome in. It's Thursday, good to be here, and we're gonna dive in, in just a moment. Karen, good to see you. Thanks for being here.

Nathan Simmonds:

So right now, before we even get into today's session, those of you that are here now ready to start that thing that you said that you were procrastinating on or had been procrastinating on you, hopefully, fingers crossed, you've come up with one or two actions that you could have taken or have taken to help move you forward and get that thing done. Get it off your to-do list, stop the procrastination, and you know, get that action in place. How are you progressing on a scale of one to 10, one being not at all, 10 being completely taking action.

Work on your procrastination and be more productive

 

Nathan Simmonds:

On a scale of one to 10, whereabouts are you on actually moving toward getting that thing done? 10, one, not at all. 10 being complete action or taking action? We've got an eight. Good. We've got 10. Good. So those things that you said, happy days. Yeah. Nice. Got another 10 in there. So those things that you said you were procrastinating on about, even with two 20 minute conversations or two 30 minute conversations, you've now come up with one small action that you could take and you have taken, and you are now moving forward to get that thing done.

Nathan Simmonds:

Howard, no need to apologize that you are with us. That's all that matters. This is it. This is as simple as that. When you see it as too big and it's over overpowering, you know, it's too big. It is. You know, it's the big hairy ugly frog that we don't wanna eat. You know, we, we find reasons and we make the excuses to put it off, but actually one small action moves you closer towards it. How do you now feel in one word about that thing that you are procrastinating about?

Nathan Simmonds:

Knowing now that you've taken at least, you know, 1, 2, 3 actions against it. How do you feel about that thing? You are procrastinating about? new faces in the room. I love this. Good to see you, Basan. Thank you for being here. Lynn. Petra, good to see you again. Ramla. Rock and roll, productive. This is exactly what it's about. You know, there was a reason why you are procrastinating about that thing. How long has that thing that you've been procrastinating about being in your mentor, on your mentor to-do list? How long has it been there for?

Nathan Simmonds:

Do you have the wherewithal to take action once I'm in control? Several years, two days? Absolutely. Now, it might be two days worth of procrastination, or several years, but actually now you've taken an action. You're mo you know, you've now taking one small step. The journey of a thousand miles, as we all know, you know, it starts with one step. And the successes of tomorrow are made by the actions that we take today. Or they may seem like cliche memes or, or quotes. It's the truth and the moment, you can see the excuses that you are saying that we talked about in day one.

Nathan Simmonds:

Those seven excuses, easy, boring, certainty, thrill, whatever it might be, when we hear those words, we can understand that we're procrastinating. When we boil it down, we can then understand which one of the four values that we're,