In my Trinidadian and Jamaican columns I have written recent articles about doing business after the State of Emergency in T&T, and the need to re-think the annual planning retreat.
Recent Projects
Here is a short sample of some of the projects we have been involved with recently.
A Washington, DC – based non-profit asked us to help them devise and implement their on-line engagement strategy.
A Caribbean snack and food company hired us to act as their head of Human Resource while conducting a search for a replacement.
We are also part of a project team due to start soon in Trinidad that involves doing the strategic planning for a financial institution.
Another financial institution in Jamaica has hired us to train over 100 of its employees in our latest time management and productivity techniques.
Regular Gleaner Column
Good news for those who read my contributions to the Jamaica Gleaner on productivity. I have been asked to contribute a regular column on a short-term contract, so articles should be appearing every other week. Of course, there is also an on-line version at the newspaper’s website.
Update: Here is the first article entitled “Why We aren’t Doing Enough About Jamaica’s Productivity“
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 also the future plans for the organization. You can access the interview at http://radio.caribhrforum.com
Also, the program for the entire JEF Convention can be found by clicking this link.
Free Business Webinar
I have been asked to join in as a presenter in the Productive Business Owner Teleseminar series on April 11-15.
Registration is absolutely free (amazing) and you can find out more information by signing up here.
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 we are all using the latest gadgets in ineffective ways.
Also, I’ll be presenting at the Jamaica Employer’s Federation Conference, here in Kingston. The topic is likely to be the same — a dry run of sorts for the IIE presentation.
Both of these events will take place in May 2011.
Time Management 2.0
I have been fortunate to be able to present the ideas I have been working on in Time Management 2.0 in a variety of fora.
A recent article I wrote entitled “Why Jamaicans Have to Migrate to Become Productive” was published in the Gleaner and received a good amount of feedback, while generating an interesting discussion.
Based on the article, I got a call from a producer at TVJ to come back on the morning show to speak to some of the ideas in the article. The video can be found here:
Recent Speeches and Interviews
Over the past few weeks, I have made a few public appearances on the topic of time management as it relates to information overload. They include a speech, plus interviews on radio and television.
What’s interesting is that they all took place within the space of a week!
Here is the interview on TVJ on their early morning show:
Here’s the speech I gave on the method I’m using to decide whether or not to choose a smartphone.
I also gave an interview on the same topic of information overload on a radio show on Power 106FM – “Both Sides of the Story.” It lasted about an hour and brought in several others to give their perspective, which made it interesting. Simply visit the link to the 2Time Audios page and look for the audio on Information Overload.
Let me know what you think of these either here in the comments, or over at my Facebook page.
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 in at the following URL to the episode from October 5th, and sign up to be notified for the next show on October 19th. (Listener space is a bit limited.) Click here to be taken to CaribHR.Radio – http://radio.caribhrforum.com
Special Report Just Released
I just published a new Special Report entitled: “8 Edgy Ideas from Time Management 2.0.” It’s available for free download at the 2time website.
In addition, it also includes a new introductory video as well as a recording of all 22 pages.
It outlines all the high-quality ideas I have found and have written about related to time management, and the new way of thinking about learning the habits required to make an improvement to your personal productivity.