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I made a recent appearance once again on TelevisionJamaica, to talk about an article I wrote called Shut Up and Listen.

In the article, I imagined what it would take to keep a great employee if all of a sudden they became wealthy – like the guys who were fortunate enough to be working for WhatsApp when it was bought by Facebook for $19b.

Tune into the show and/or read the article and let me know what you think in the comments below.

I recently received some good news – I’ll be speaking at the ICF Midwest Conference in Cleveland Ohio in June. It’s the largest gathering of coaches in North America and a great honour to be speaking on how to become an expert at delivering time management coaching.

Here’s the link to the conference.

 

Now available – a compilation of my articles written for the Jamaica Gleaner. Click here to access your download and discover over 50 provocative articles written from 2010-2013.

In my work with Time Advisers (consultants, professional organizers, coaches and trainers) I often find people who work hard to make a difference with their clients but often find it hard to make a difference. It’s predictable; helping people to make changes to the way they manage their time is tough, and it’s not as easy as helping them learn a simple new task.

Working with Janice Russell, I recently co-published a new special report entitled The 8 Fatal Assumptions that Time Advisers Make. It’s available as a free download from my website for time advisers.

I’ll be speaking at the Project Management Institute Southern Caribbean Chapter (PMISCC)Conference in Port of Spain on September 17th – 18th. It’s another opportunity to interact with project managers and to share the power of improving time management capabilities during a project.

The presentation will build on the story told in Bill’s Im-Perfect Time Management Adventure in which the protagonist is a project manager who is trying to save himself, his project and his team from low productivity and an impending layoff.

The PMISCC conference link can be found here.

Update: After the conference I set up a page with all the information you need to completely relive the experience of being there, including the live recording, the slides and the paper I presented. Reducing the Risk of Un-Productive Team Members.

 

Yesterday morning, I received a bit of a surprise. A friend gave me a call to let me know that I had appeared on the front page of the Jamaica Gleaner – the country’s largest daily newspaper. An interview I did by phone a few weeks ago was carried on the front page of the Gleaner, along with the picture copied here and a single quote.

It was a pleasant surprise, followed by a few supportive calls from friends.

This month I’ll be speaking at the NCB SME Conference in Montego Bay. I’ll be part of a panel along with a friend and client, David Martin, of Jamaica Producers. Our session is entitled  “Efficiency and Effectiveness – the Key to Survival in a Tough Economy.”

During May, I spoke at two conferences, three times in all.

The Human Resource Management Association of Trinidad and Tobago (HRMATT) invited me to speak at their biennial conference and I spoke on two topics: “How Caribbean Executives Can Raise Their Standards,” and “Transforming Time Management Learning with Gamification.”

After this conference in Port of Spain, I travelled to Dallas, Texas to speak at the American Society of Training and Development Conference (ASTD.) My topic there was “How to Stop Failing at Behavior Change Training – The Case of Time Management.”

Within the next few weeks I’ll be speaking at a couple of conferences. The first will be the Human Resource Management Association of Trinidad and Tobago’s (HRMATT) 9th Biennial Conference in Port of Spain on May 13-14, 2013. I’ll be speaking twice: on  Monday on the topic of “How Caribbean Executives Can Raise Their Standards” and again on Tuesday on “Transforming Time Management Training with Gamification.”

During the following week I’ll be in Dallas at the American Society of Training and Development’s (ASTD) 2013 International Conference and Exposition. Some 9000 people are expected and I’ll be speaking on the topic – “How to Stop Failing at Behavior Change Training – The Case of Time Management.”

At both event’s I’ll be promoting my new book – Bill’s Im-Perfect Time Management Adventure.

I expect to make some interesting new connections!