Effective Personal Productivity
“I want to take back control of my time.”
Develop the personal effectiveness and productivity skills that help you take back control of your time, focus on priorities and work towards meaningful results.
Take back control of your time.
Busy is not the same as productive. How you manage your own time and priorities sets the limit on what you, and the people who depend on you, can get done. Effective Personal Productivity is designed for people who recognise needs like these.
For professionals, managers and leaders who want to improve their own productivity and that of their team. It suits people who are new to managing others as well as experienced leaders whose workload has outgrown their current habits.
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Competing demands
Everything feels urgent, and it is hard to decide what deserves your time first.
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Reacting all day
Interruptions, messages and other people's emergencies take over, and planned work is pushed out.
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No time to plan
You know what you want to achieve, but goals stay in your head and rarely make it into the week.
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Doing it all yourself
Delegating feels slower or riskier than doing the work yourself, so your workload keeps growing.
What the programme covers
From managing yourself to getting more from your team.
The first three lessons deal with your own goals, time and priorities. The last three turn to how you communicate, delegate and build a productive team.
Official LMI Partner
LMI programme, delivered by Atlantic Edge Leadership -
The nature of productivity
What productivity means in your role, how to benchmark your own, and how to identify your high-payoff activities.
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Managing time
Setting personal and organisational goals, putting them in writing, finding time to plan, and using affirmation and visualisation.
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Controlling priorities
Setting priorities, dealing with interruptions and emergencies, managing communications, and learning to say no.
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Communicate better
Listening for the whole message, asking clarifying questions, writing for impact, and using technology efficiently.
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Team empowerment
Overcoming the reluctance to delegate, and developing your team by handing over real responsibility.
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Team productivity
Creating a learning environment, setting positive expectations, and building efficient ways of working as a team.
What the programme is designed to support
- Clear written goals, and the habit of planning around them
- Better control of priorities, interruptions and time
- Clearer communication with colleagues and teams
- More confident delegation, so the team carries more of the work
What it looks like in practice
Effective Personal Productivity is an LMI programme, delivered by Atlantic Edge Leadership as an official LMI partner. We deliver it through the Leadership Performance Blueprint: a clear structure for what happens before, during and after the programme, so that learning is applied at work.
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Prepare
Before the programme starts, the participant and their organisation agree what they want from it and who is responsible for what.
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Develop
Participants work through the LMI programme in sessions facilitated by Martin Kennedy.
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Apply
Between sessions, participants carry out agreed actions in their own role.
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Reinforce
Managers back the changes at work, and key ideas are revisited as the programme goes on.
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Review
Application and progress are reviewed at set points, so everyone can see what has changed.
How the programme runs
- Format
- One 90 minute session a week. The January cohort runs online. In-company delivery is on dates agreed with your organisation.
- What is included
- A welcome and set-up session, a mid-point check-in and final presentations.
- Facilitator
- Martin Kennedy facilitates every session personally.
- Invoicing
- Employers are invoiced by Atlantic Edge Leadership Limited.
- Next cohort
- The next cohort starts online on Tuesday 19 January 2027. See the January cohort
Atlantic Edge Leadership is an official partner of Leadership Management International (LMI). Programmes are facilitated by Martin Kennedy, who has more than 18 years of experience leading learning, leadership and talent-development programmes at Apple.
Not sure where to start?
The Snapshot is a free three minute check on five areas of leadership. You see your results at the end, and a conversation with Martin is optional.
Frequently asked questions
What is Effective Personal Productivity?
Effective Personal Productivity (EPP) is a six-lesson programme developed by Leadership Management International (LMI). It covers how you set goals, control your priorities and time, communicate, and delegate. In Ireland, Atlantic Edge Leadership delivers it as an official LMI partner.
What topics does it cover?
Six lessons: the nature of productivity, managing time, controlling priorities, communicating better, team empowerment and team productivity.
Is Effective Personal Productivity an Atlantic Edge Leadership programme or an LMI programme?
It is an LMI programme. The content and methodology are from Leadership Management International (LMI). Atlantic Edge Leadership delivers it for Irish organisations as an official LMI partner, through the Leadership Performance Blueprint, its approach to helping participants apply what they learn at work.
How do we get started?
Book a conversation with Martin, or register your interest and he will be in touch. He will ask what you want to change and help you decide whether this is the right programme.
Talk it through with Martin
Book a conversation and Martin will help you decide whether this is the right programme.