Category Archives: Podcasts

Part 1 of many – David Allen and his senior staff share the GTD® best practices and models for seamlessly managing your projects.

Prepare to be inspired by Simon Penhaligon’s one-weekend implementation of GTD. After agreeing to take on twice his usual workload, Simon knew he needed a new way of working. Over one intense weekend, he listened to the Getting Things Done audiobook, and set up his system. Since getting into the GTD groove, Simon has been able to handle the expanded workload, while driving his inbox to zero daily, and still spending evenings and weekends with his wife and daughter. He uses Microsoft Outlook? for email and calendar, and Evernote? for everything else.

Part 6 of many – GTD® Live is the audio version of David Allen’s complete two-day seminar that brings you the powerful principles of Getting Things Done®, including the Mastering Workflow, Managing Projects & Priorities models. Recorded live, this will give you a great hands-on experience with the GTD® approach, at your own pace. Take part in the exercises presented, just as if you were in the room with David by your side. It’s a great way to get started with GTD®, or refresh what you’ve already built and learned.

Part 5 of many – GTD® Live is the audio version of David Allen’s complete two-day seminar that brings you the powerful principles of Getting Things Done®, including the Mastering Workflow, Managing Projects & Priorities models. Recorded live, this will give you a great hands-on experience with the GTD® approach, at your own pace. Take part in the exercises presented, just as if you were in the room with David by your side. It’s a great way to get started with GTD®, or refresh what you’ve already built and learned.

Part 4 of many – GTD® Live is the audio version of David Allen’s complete two-day seminar that brings you the powerful principles of Getting Things Done®, including the Mastering Workflow, Managing Projects & Priorities models. Recorded live, this will give you a great hands-on experience with the GTD® approach, at your own pace. Take part in the exercises presented, just as if you were in the room with David by your side. It’s a great way to get started with GTD®, or refresh what you’ve already built and learned.

David Allen spoke with Luca Gambetti, whose company E-quality Italia is the certified partner for GTD® in Italy. Their discussion centered around traditional and modern approaches to project management. Before becoming a GTD® Master Trainer, Luca worked extensively as a project manager. He has a background in Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban and others. His key piece of advice about projects? Keep track of your achievements, and take time to savor them. Luca confidently says that with GTD®, it is possible to live a more relaxed, focused life.

Part 3 of many – GTD® Live is the audio version of David Allen’s complete two-day seminar that brings you the powerful principles of Getting Things Done®, including the Mastering Workflow, Managing Projects & Priorities models. Recorded live, this will give you a great hands-on experience with the GTD® approach, at your own pace. Take part in the exercises presented, just as if you were in the room with David by your side. It’s a great way to get started with GTD®, or refresh what you’ve already built and learned.

Part 2 of many – GTD® Live is the audio version of David Allen’s complete two-day seminar that brings you the powerful principles of Getting Things Done®, including the Mastering Workflow, Managing Projects & Priorities models. Recorded live, this will give you a great hands-on experience with the GTD® approach, at your own pace. Take part in the exercises presented, just as if you were in the room with David by your side. It’s a great way to get started with GTD®, or refresh what you’ve already built and learned.

Part 1 of many – GTD® Live is the audio version of David Allen’s complete two-day seminar that brings you the powerful principles of Getting Things Done®, including the Mastering Workflow, Managing Projects & Priorities models. Recorded live, this will give you a great hands-on experience with the GTD® approach, at your own pace. Take part in the exercises presented, just as if you were in the room with David by your side. It’s a great way to get started with GTD®, or refresh what you’ve already built and learned.

Back in 2015, David Allen and Brian Robertson had a discussion about GTD and Holacracy. In this new talk, they catch up about the current state of the intersection between individual and organizational productivity. You’ll hear some interesting similarities between the two models, as well as some parallels in their history and purpose.

Lars Rothschild Henriksen describes his journey from working as a software engineer to becoming the only certified GTD® trainer in Denmark. His inspirational story is based on his Horizon 5 interest in helping people, and finding GTD® to be a very effective way to accomplish that purpose. He has used a wide variety of digital tools to track commitments, starting with Remember the Milk, then OneNote, Wunderlist, Outlook, and currently, Todoist. He also uses Evernote and OneNote for different types of reference.

Stephen Reese is a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. He has long been a student of productivity, with years of history using tools from low-tech to high-tech. You’ll enjoy hearing him discuss his GTD® practice, especially his “habits of the mind for the intellectual craftsman.”

Let’s end the year with a compilation of all of David’s Two Minute Tips as these turbulent times continue, plus these are gems you can reference at any point of your GTD® life. Happy New Year!

This is an installation and implementation session on the higher Horizons of Focus. We will spend time exploring if anything has your attention at each of the horizons, and will end with integrating the horizons at the project and next action levels.

David explores the psychology of productivity with William Elliott, a counseling psychologist and GTD® master trainer in South Africa. William describes his own journey with attention-deficit disorder, and finding GTD® as a support for becoming more organized. He has wise words about how humility and accepting our limitations can improve our productivity and the overall quality of our lives. You’ll likely resonate with his description of the background stress around “What do I say no to?” and how GTD® helps with decision making and prioritizing. Regarding what’s on our lists, he notes that there is an advance beyond safely ignoring to reach comfortably ignoring. Responding to a question from David, William says that his “brain has accepted that GTD® is the life raft.” (January 2018)

From the archives (July 2013) – Senior Coaches Meg Edwards and Kelly Forrister share the 3 types of ways to review your GTD system. You’ll learn about what’s best to review on a daily, weekly, quarterly, and yearly basis to keep on track and aligned with what’s important to you. Includes helpful tips around reviewing projects, action lists, goals, areas of focus, and more.

David Allen talks about the question, “Is there really too much to do?”

From the archives (May 2010): Audio Only version of the third episode in the Road to Black Belt “boot camp” series, where Coaches Meg Edwards & Kelly Forrister take a deep dive into the Review & Do phases of GTD.

From the archives: Listen in as David chats with best-selling author Dan Pink, getting an inside look into his own path, his research and observations about people and the nature of work, and his own use of GTD for managing himself with all of that. Dan is a journalist and the author of Free Agent Nation, A Whole New Mind, Drive, and To Sell Is Human (April 2012)

David Allen explores how groups that want to foster friendliness can fall into the trap of not making it clear who is accountable for which outcomes. The result is not so nice.