Win back the hoursyour team loses to busywork.
A productivity workshop that goes beyond life-hacks, auditing where your team's time actually goes, cutting the low-value work, and building systems that protect focus so people do more of what matters.
The problem
Always on. Never done.
Meeting overload
Calendars packed wall-to-wall, leaving no time to do the actual work.
Death by busywork
Best people buried in low-value admin that could be cut or automated.
No room to think
Constant pings and context-switching kill the deep work that moves the needle.
Our insights on productivity in HBR
Ideas and practical insights on productivity, focus, time, asynchronous work and creating better ways of working, published in Harvard Business Review.
Stop Sabotaging Your Workforce
How organisations can remove the systems and behaviours that quietly undermine productivity.
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10 Quick Tips for Avoiding Distractions at Work
Simple ways to protect attention and stay focused when work constantly competes for your attention.
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Stop Letting Push Notifications Ruin Your Productivity
Why constant digital interruptions can fragment attention, and what to do about them.
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The Case for the 6-Hour Workday
Rethinking the traditional workday and the relationship between time spent and meaningful output.
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Productivity Skills to Help You Gain Time Back
Practical productivity skills that help people create more space for important work.
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Remote Work Should Be Mostly Asynchronous
Why giving teams more control over when they work can create a healthier and more productive workplace.
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What you'll walk away with
By the end of the day, your team will have
- A clear audit of where the team's time actually goes
- A hit-list of low-value work to cut, automate or delegate
- A meeting culture worth defending, fewer, shorter, sharper
- Systems that protect deep, focused work
- Team norms and rituals designed to make it all stick
What we cover
The flow of the day
- 01
Audit the time drain
Where the hours really go, and what they're worth.
- 02
Cut & automate
Eliminate, delegate or automate the low-value work first.
- 03
Fix meeting culture
Fewer, shorter, sharper, with rules the team actually keeps.
- 04
Design for deep work
Protect focus time and tame the notification firehose.
- 05
Build lasting rituals
Team norms that hold once the workshop's over.
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Included with the workshop
Time Rich
Do Your Best Work, Live Your Best Life
All participants in Collective Campus productivity workshops receive a copy of Time Rich. The book is about making room for the work that matters, not squeezing more into every hour.
FAQ
Questions we get asked
Isn't this just time-management tips?
No. We change how the team works, process, meeting culture and focus systems, not just personal habits.
Individual or team change?
Team-level. The value is in shared norms everyone commits to together.
Does it work for remote teams?
Yes, the remote version is purpose-built for distributed and hybrid teams.
our case studies
Charter Hall
One-day productivity session based on the six-hour workday article.
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ON Running
One-day productivity workshop for over 150 leaders, covering the team, managers and individual work.
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Stuart
Four webinars on personal productivity, team productivity and mental health at work. More than 150 people took part.
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Testimonials
What teams say afterwards
“Steve delivers insights in a naturally engaging style, ensuring you are thinking differently and challenging your biases throughout the workshop. The productivity session I undertook with our Retail team, unlocked new ways to approach work effort and measure value delivered roles. The full day course received 100% satisfaction with all participants stating that it was time well spent.”
Facilitator
Steve Glaveski
Founder of Collective Campus, 2× Wiley author and HBR contributor who writes on AI, productivity and how we work. Steve runs these sessions himself.
Ready to win the hours back?
Tell us where the time goes, we'll shape a workshop around it.