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Speaking at the ICD Conference

I have the honour of speaking at the annual conference of the Institute for Challenging Disorder (ICD) in Chicago, IL in September. The Institute offers training to professional organizers who work with clients who suffer from chronic disorganization.  I’ll be doing both a speech and a workshop on how organizers can be effective in working [...]

Presentation at the Jamaica Employer’s Federation Convention

The countdown is on to the beginning of the JEF Convention 2011.  It’s the biggest conference of it’s kind in the English-speaking Caribbean and I’ll be making a presentation on Saturday, May 7th on the topic of Smartphone Productivity. We recently conducted an interview with Wayne Chen – JEF President – on the conference and [...]

Conference Presentations

I had some good news recently — a paper I wrote was accepted by the annual conference at the Institute of Industrial Engineers in Reno Nevada. I’ll finalize the exact topic soon to reflect the latest research but you might have guessed that it has something to do with time management and the ways that [...]

CaribHR.Radio Launched

I recently conducted the first test broadcast of a new project I started: CaribHR.Radio It seemed to go well, and got some nice feedback, and I plan to go into “full production” with shows every two weeks during Tuesday lunchtimes. Fortunately, each show is recorded after its broadcast on the internet, and you can listen [...]

Why Jamaicans Need to Follow Trini Politics

A snap election has been called in Trinidad, and Jamaicans are not paying attention to what is happening. Read my two articles that appeared today and learn why Jamaican business-people need to pay very close attention to the latest political developments in the twin-island republic. Here is my letter to the editor of the Jamaica [...]

The Weekly Review Video

Recently I took on a pretty difficult topic — how to fix the weekly review that is the cornerstone of so many time management systems. The result was a video that is well over 20 minutes long, that has apparently upset some of the established thinking.  I published it over at my time management blog: [...]

New Radio Program

Good news!  I now have the pleasure of co-hosting a fairly new radio program here in Jamaica, on BESS FM – 100.1. It’s a business program, and I got off the mark on February 1st with a focus on the topic of the acquisition of Air Jamaica by Caribbean Airlines. I’ll be working for a [...]

MyTimeDesign Has Launched!

After a lot of work, MyTimeDesign is now available to the general public. To see the information page, and the 22 minute video I made, simply visit http://mytimedesign.com/registration/ It offers a 16 program that takes you through a process of upgrading your time management system, while showing you how you can keep on doing so [...]

20 New Videos on Time Management

I have just launched a series of new videos on Time Management over at my blog.  They cover the Top 10 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s) About Time Management, and plus the Top 10 Questions that People Should be Asking (SAQ’s) About Time Management. They are immediately available for the price of free registration. See http://mytimedesign.com/20vidsnow. [...]

The New Networking is Retiring

I recently decided to close out my ebook The New Networking: Caribbean 2008 at the end of the year, in order to make way for some new ideas and a new e-book at some point. While I don’t plan to write its successor anytime soon, I recall discovering Facebook just as the ebook was about [...]

Speaking at the ICD Conference

January 19, 2012
by: francis • Newsflashes

Articles: Trinidad and Jamaica

November 19, 2011
by: francis • Publications, Uncategorized

Recent Projects

August 22, 2011
by: francis • Uncategorized

Regular Gleaner Column

June 29, 2011
by: francis • Press Releases