policing – Page 7 – Police Time Management

Policing – it’s just like Baseball.

Measurements can be a pain. But some of them actually matter. Ask Billy Beane.

Put Purpose before Process. For a Change.

Last week I proposed you use routines. This week, I say when you shouldn’t.
I’m funny like that.

Routines Work. So Develop Your Own.

The organisation’s routines work – but you can develop your own to help your own productivity and stress-levels.

Overcome Your Nastiest Habit

You’ll be shocked to find out what’s actually causing you to procrastinate.

This one is more about personal time management than work, because the arguments I am about to make have already been ignored by your organisation, anyway. 😊 Seeking inspiration for this week’s article, I googled ‘time management’ and was immediately presented with an article on time management apps. And my heart sank. There was goodContinue reading “Think before you App.”

Brief Backwards, Reduce Stress

Stress is created because we give no thought to an alternative, slightly less stressful, and arguably more professionally respectful approach to daily briefings. Read on…..

Are YOU a Mobile Phone? On Priorities and Closed Doors.

Have you adopted the behaviour of a mobile telephone?

Numbers Aren’t ALL Important – a Plea to Number Crunchers.

A wise man (named Roger Merrill) once wrote: “The degree to which urgency drives an organisation’s activities is the degree to which importance does not.” This is a foundational explanation as to why you, front line officers, are permanently busy. But not for the reason you might think. “Urgency R Us”. We’m the police, asContinue reading “Numbers Aren’t ALL Important – a Plea to Number Crunchers.”

Do YOU carry a Personal Disorganiser?

Just having a briefcase isn’t enough…..

How Full Is Your Box?

Let me put something to you. You open your e-mail account at work. There are a number of new emails present. You open each, in order, and read them. So far, so good. Then you consider them fully read and understood, and you think “I really have to do something about ….”, your mind triggeredContinue reading “How Full Is Your Box?”