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    Tips and Tricks - Managing your To Do list

    I am a great believer in To Do lists. I have researched many apps and settled for one that I am very happy with. I can structure my activities, tag them, link them to people, emails, geography etc. I can give them start dates, due dates, alarms etc. However, there is one shortcoming in every To Do app that I have come across and that is, while you can record the activity that you need to undertake, give it a priority and a due date, you can’t link the activity to a slot in your diary. It’s all very well having a comprehensive list of things that need to be done but if you haven’t allocated time to do them then it is my experience that many of them just end up being transferred to another dat

    ‘Nobody’s perfect, but a team can be!’

    So said Meredith Belbin, the internationally renowned researcher on team roles and the critical part they play in the creation of high-performing teams. This is something I have known for a number of years, having been a manager and leader of large teams throughout much of my career in the NHS. I like to think that I always acknowledged the importance of every member of the team, each playing their part in contributing to the overall goals of the service (and thus the team). My own success as a leader was of course largely due to the talented members of the team, and how well they worked together. Imagine the shock when I chose to leave the relative safety of a career in the NHS, with a rela

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