In this episode Lars talks GTD with Christian Solmunde Michelsen, Head of Sales and Marketing at Maersk Training in Denmark. Christian is a long time GTD’er who shares how he came across GTD, how he it has helped him both at work and at home, the tools he uses and much more.

We all fall off the GTD wagon at times, what are the most common pitfalls that we see?

In this episode, our special guest is GTD’er and LEAN fanatic Jonas Langeteig. He is head of The Lerøy Way Office and responsible for implementing GTD and LEAN at Lerøy. He is also a certified GTD Trainer for in-house seminars in Lerøy and he has some very interesting thoughts about the intersection between GTD and LEAN and how they fit together.

We know that GTD works but you also have to tailor it to make it work best for you. How do you do that? What can you tweak and what are common ways to do it? Listen to this episode to get tips for tweaking your system to make it work even better for you.

Where do ideas come from and how can we use that in GTD? This special interview episode will dive into that topic with Emil Sunesen, practical creativity expert with a background in Digital Innovation and Management.

What’s it like to use GTD as a family? That’s what we look into in this episode, based on Morten and Lars’ personal experience in their own families as well as from coaching clients’ experiences.

GTD is about personal productivity but how does it impact an organization?

Which parts of GTD are most used in relation to gaining a shared overview and collaborating with others?

The topic of this episode is a question from one of our listeners: What tools to use for capturing while driving/running?

The Natural Planning Model (chapter 3 in the GTD-book) is an amazing model to think through your projects and it’s probably one of the most underused elements of GTD! So be sure to listen to this episode, we can almost promise you that you’ll want to start using this on more of your projects (in case you aren’t using it already).

In this slightly longer episode, we dive deep into the Horizons of Focus. What are they and how do they fit into the GTD methodology? Or maybe you already know how important these can be – how do I get started?

What’s the difference between reference material and support material for actions and projects? And what types of support materials are common?

Your day is already split into three different types of work, even though you may not be aware of it! What are they and why are they relevant?
How do you take these into account when setting your expectations for what you can get done?
How do you decide if you should handle work that just shows up?

We are at the end of our walkthrough of the five steps to manage your workflow. In this episode we cover the fifth and final step: Engage!

This episode covers the fourth of the five steps to manage your workflow, Reflect! Now is the time to take a step back and review your work and life from a higher perspective…

This episode covers the third of the five steps to manage your workflow, Organize! In Clarify you decided what to do about your stuff, now it’s time to place them where they belong.

This episode covers the second of the five steps to manage your workflow, Clarify! Learn how you figure out what all the stuff you captured means to you.

The first “real” episode of the podcast where Morten and Lars focus on the first of the five steps in GTD: Capture! What’s the science behind this, what tools do we use and what is our experience with using this step e.g. regarding notifications.

What is GTD? How will you benefit from using the techniques? How did Morten and Lars start using GTD and how did it help them? Those are the topics of this very first episode of the Getting Things Done podcast from GTDnordic.