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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.

Think before you App.

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…..

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.”

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?”

Popmaster Policing

In 2007 I was an involuntary part of a Major Incident Team. A man had died in hospital as the result of a beating, and although it transpired that the beating itself took place 170 miles away from the hospital in which he died, our tiny force’s SIO decided to keep what turned out toContinue reading “Popmaster Policing”