What’s The Big Idea? Strategic entrepreneurialism is an attribute as sought after today by global CEOs as it is by start-ups. It’s become an essential tactic for business survival, but despite [...]
Six Sigma is an evaluation framework for assessing organisational processes. It is deployed to improve process output quality and mitigate variability through the identification and removal of [...]
In any organisation the time spent in meetings is a major investment. Meetings can be optimised and made more efficient by deploying Six Sigma processes and using Cosapien to automate minute [...]
Meetings can be a complete waste of time. However, meetings can also be the key driver of execution in a company. Here, we have listed some of our best productivity tips for helping keeping [...]
Why Changing Habits So Hard? As human beings we are largely an amalgamation of the habits (ie, stimulus-response behaviour) we have compounded across our lifetimes. In general this is [...]
Life-work balance. It’s something that most professionals continually find themselves striving towards but the key to getting it right lies in prioritisation. So what is prioritisation? It’s the [...]
We’re all busy. We have too many commitments. We’re connected all the time. But sometimes it’s because we haven’t groomed the people we deal with to work within our defined parameters. If you [...]
Are you someone who tells yourself you’ll “do better next time” but don’t? Do you find yourself procrastinating and leaving tasks for later only to discover that it just doesn’t happen? What does [...]
Innovative companies don’t need conference tables all the time. Technology has delivered many ways for us to collaborate smarter. Tools like Skype, Zoom and Cosapien enable people to work more [...]
While there is a science behind conducting meetings, there’s an art to scoring those meetings. The issue here is time. People are pressed for time; they spend their time rushing around and they [...]
Holding productive meetings requires you to balance organisational needs with employee needs. And while you may be under performance pressure to get updates, delegate tasks and engage your [...]
In our series of mental optimisation articles so far, we have taken a look at: optimising the brain and getting the basics in place, how what you eat affects your productivity, optimising your [...]
Could you put four hours of work in per week and still manage to do everything you need to? Your instinctive response might be no, but Tim Ferriss, author of the 4-Hour Work Week says it is [...]
Nutrition is perhaps one of the most underrated elements of cognitive performance in the workplace and it’s not surprising. For most of us food is associated with our bodies: with losing or [...]
Getting The Basics In Place It doesn’t matter how busy you might consider yourself or how indifferent you might feel to exercise, your brain needs rest and exercise as much as your body does. We [...]
The most organised people get a lot done. They manage their to-do lists and they don’t seem to forget about anything, all while maintain composure and managing stress levels. So it’s not [...]
Why do so many of us struggle to keep meetings on track? Well thanks to the ever-increasing pace that organisations have to move at, very few of us actually have the time to think about and plan [...]
Minuting a meeting really is an art. You have to listen to the discussion, contribute where necessary and ensure you document the most poignant elements. And, if you want to keep everyone [...]
Would you like to find out how to write meeting minutes that are accurate and useful? Cosapien is a minute taking and productivity system that takes care of meeting minutes for you, allowing you [...]
