Productivity training in SydneyGive the team its hours back.
A productivity workshop for Sydney teams losing the week to meetings, with a simpler rhythm they can start the next morning.
- Sydney, in person or hybrid
Sydney
For Sydney teams whose week is the diary
Charter Hall did a one-day productivity session with Collective Campus, based on the six-hour workday work, and looked at rolling it out to more leadership groups. Sydney teams book the same session when meetings have become the job.
We run it in Sydney with the manager and the team together, at your office or a room in the city, or hybrid if the group is split. You do not leave with a new app. You leave with a shorter meeting load and a few rules that can survive the next busy week.
- Charter Hall used a one-day Collective Campus productivity session and looked at extending it to more leadership groups.
- In person in Sydney, which is when the rules tend to stick, or hybrid if the group is split.
- Fewer meetings and a written rhythm. Not another tool.
- The method sits behind the book Time Rich. The day uses your calendar.
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.
Sydney
Questions about running this in Sydney
Do you run the productivity day in Sydney?
Yes. In person is the stronger version, because the manager and the team agree the rules in the same room. Hybrid works when the group is split.
Does the Sydney manager have to attend?
Yes if their diary is the bottleneck. Charter Hall used a one-day session and looked at taking it to more leadership groups. The team cannot protect focus while the person who accepts every meeting is absent.
How do we book a Sydney productivity session?
Use the contact form. Tell us where the hours go, the group size and whether you want a half day or a full day.
Will you tell us to buy software?
No. Most teams need fewer tools and a small set of rules. We will not spend the day on an app demo.
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.