Breaking the Busyness Cycle

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55 minutes • expires 08/06/2026

With Grace Marshall

 

Addicted to being busy? Discover how to break the habit for good.

In changing times, the pace of work can feel relentless. Many of us find ourselves staying busy to keep up, keep control, or keep going. But when busyness becomes our default response, it can erode the clarity, trust and capacity we need to do our best work. In this video, award-winning author and speaker Grace Marshall invites us to look beneath the surface of our busyness — at the instincts and habits that shape how we respond to pressure, uncertainty and change. Through everyday insight and practical application, explore how these patterns play out not just individually, but across teams and organisations.

Watch this video and gain:
  • Insight into the hidden drivers behind perpetual busyness and practical ways to recognise and interrupt unhelpful patterns.
  • An understanding of how busyness shows up in team dynamics and how even strong teams can lose trust, confidence or cohesion under uncertainty.
  • Three practical shifts that build stronger teams and more meaningful results, strengthening psychological safety, innovation and growth in changing times.

About Grace Marshall:

Award-winning author Grace Marshall, is known for her “refreshingly human” approach to productivity. Her first book ’21 Ways to Manage the Stuff that Sucks Up Your Time’ was born from coaching clients through (and living herself) the juggle of running a business whilst raising a family. 

Her second book, ‘How to be Really Productive: Achieving clarity and getting results in a world where work never ends’ won The Commuter’s Read category at the CMI 2017 Management Book of the Year Awards, where judges called it "a breath of fresh air."

Her third book Struggle: the surprising truth, beauty and opportunity hidden in life’s sh*ttier moments was shortlisted in the Business Book Awards 2022, and has been described as honest, uplifting and “the antidote to fake positivity”.

As a Productivity Ninja with global productivity training company Think Productive, she has helped over ten thousand people adopt new ways of working and thinking about their work - from startup founders to corporate managers, artists to engineers, students and CEOs - to replace stress, overwhelm and frustration with success, sanity and satisfaction.