tame the chaos
focus on what matters
Helping organisations reduce digital overwhelm, improve communication, protect strategic time and create calmer, more effective ways of working.
Reclaim your time, your focus, and your strategic impact.
Designed for organisations drowning in digital overload.
4–6 hours reclaimed per person weekly
30–40% less email clutter
Fewer urgent crises
Faster customer responses
A calmer, more productive team with clear priorities
Most organisations don’t have a time problem.
They have a workflow problem.
Too many teams accept overflowing inboxes, constant interruptions, lost information and firefighting as the normal cost of modern work.
It isn't.
Most chaos comes from missing workflows, unclear communication principles and systems that force people to rely on memory, heroics and constant availability.
does this sound familiar?
Different sectors experience it differently. But the warning signs are remarkably similar.
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Too many emails, messages, meetings and interruptions.
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Documents, decisions and knowledge scattered across systems.
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Important work repeatedly loses to urgent work.
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Too many decisions flow through too few people.
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Everyone is busy. Progress feels slower than it should.
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People work harder but feel less in control.
the tiger taming system
A practical framework for creating calm teams and strategic leaders.
The Tiger Taming System helps organisations reduce digital overwhelm by improving how work flows through the organisation.
Rather than relying on more apps, more meetings or more effort, it establishes clear communication principles, better planning habits and stronger knowledge systems.
The result is less firefighting, fewer bottlenecks, improved collaboration and more time to focus on work that truly matters.
Reduce overload.
Inbox Management
Workload Management
Attention Management
Personal Knowledge Systems
Improve communication and decision-making.
Workflow Architecture
Work Allocation
Knowledge Sharing
Retrieval Systems
Reduce overload.
Inbox Management
Workload Management
Attention Management
Personal Knowledge Systems
Working with organisations across:
Business
Local Government
Public Sector
Education
VCSEs
What We Help Organisations Achieve
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Clear Communication
People know where work belongs and how information flows.
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Better Decisions
Ownership becomes clear and unnecessary bottlenecks disappear.
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Faster Retrieval
Finding information becomes easier than searching for it.
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Protected Focus
People gain more uninterrupted time for meaningful work.
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Stronger Teams
Leaders spend more time improving the organisation and less time firefighting it.
The Tiger Taming System
Our practical framework for reducing digital overload and improving how work flows through organisations.
Inbox Mastery Protocol
Process email in batches, triage urgent items in under 30 minutes, and reach inbox zero without the dopamine trap of constant checking.
Digital Workflow Architecture
Clear communication principles: what goes in email vs Teams, when to expect responses, how to flag genuine urgency so your team stops copying you in on everything.
Strategic Time Protection
Daily rituals and protocols that protect 6 hours weekly for strategic work while keeping you accessible when it truly matters.
Attention Management Foundations
Distractions are everywhere. Learn how to stay focused and stay on track to achieve your goals so you stop firefighting and start leading.
Personal Knowledge Systems
Capture and retrieve critical information in seconds, not 20 minute email searches so "work about work" time drops and execution speeds up.
what our customers say
This system has been endorsed and championed by local and national public sector organisations, from frontline NHS staff to Directors of Public Health. See what they have to say about Taming the Tiger below.
“Without a doubt the best training I’ve ever received. I can’t think of any other circumstance where I’ve changed the way I work to such an extent following the training.”
“Really good and engaging, good mix of explanations and then trying it out for yourself. Resources really useful to refer back to if required.”
“It has completely changed how I manage my inbox. I feel a lot calmer about managing it now.”
“The way in which the software that’s available to us all is demystified: It shifts from a source of stress (something I don’t understand) to a reducer of stress (something which I can maximise to help me do what I need to do).”
“The delivery of the training was the best part of it. Peter is a natural communicator, and it’s the combination of knowledge, humour and patience that is particularly effective.”
100% of attendees would recommend to colleagues
100% of attendees agree or strongly agree the skills learned in the course will help manage their workload in the long term
“life changing re workday organisational skills, understanding how using outlook and notebook can structure the day.”
I’ve spent the last 25 years working in professional roles in both the public and private sector. I know first-hand that we are facing overwhelming digital demands, a lack of skills and confidence to navigate them, compounded by a decreasing workforce.
in this digital age we are unable tomanage the volume and velocity of our work
“I’m Peter Varey, the founder of Taming the Tiger Academy.
We are productivity, time and attention management specialists helping people and organisations in the public and private sector.
We’ve already trained 100s of people in productivity and time management theories in real-world situations in a fun and engaging way by showing them practical systems to apply to their work.
We’re currently looking for ways to help more people and organisations master the skills and principles we teach.
We want to be the kitemark in this field, to help everyone conquer their inbox, improve focus and unleash their potential.”
see what our customers say about usAbout Taming the Tiger Academy
where we are
The number of emails sent globally has increased by over 3000% since 2000.
The number of local government employees has fallen by nearly a quarter since 2014.
The NHS has over 110,000 vacancies.
3 times as many people are leaving the NHS due to work-life balance and health issues in 2024 compared to 2014.
56% of local authorities identified a skill gap for managers in their use of technology.
47% of NHS managers said they lacked knowledge about digital technology and its uses.
Only 16% of public sector staff use digital tools to their full potential.
As a result, we spend 60% of our time on ‘work about work’: tasks like chasing updates, attending unnecessary meetings, and switching between tools. This overload leads to missed deadlines, stress, and reduced productivity.
We help your and teams save time, improve staff wellbeing, and enhance team focus; providing tools for efficient workload management that reduce stress and boost productivity.
our programmes
Our programmes can be delivered through engaging face-to-face training sessions, comprehensive train-the-trainer programmes, interactive e-learning modules, or a blended approach that combines all three methods. This provides maximum flexibility and ensures the right model for you and your organisation's needs. Book a FREE consultation or contact us to find out more.
tackling the ‘Hyperactive hive mind’
In the 1990s, email changed how we work forever. It made communication easy and fast, letting anyone, contact anyone, at anytime, anywhere.
Many emails created tasks: answering questions, following up on leads, setting meetings, or giving feedback. Work that used to happen in clear steps with breaks became hectic, chaotic, and overloaded.
We didn’t just move old messages like voicemails or memos to email… we transferred our entire workflow.
Our day is now largely centred around tending to our organisation’s ongoing conversation. It’s this workflow that causes us to spend over a third of our working hours in our inbox, where we are checking for new messages as often as every six minutes.
This is called the hyperactive hive mind
Professor Cal Newport, A World without Email (2021)
The multitude of subjects we are ‘context switching’ between, as well as constantly moving between work and the inbox, makes this an impossible challenge that leads to stress and anxiety; our prefrontal cortex (the ‘traffic lights’ of our attention) can service only one target at a time.
Put simply, we’re trying to use our single-track minds in a parallel world.
In addition to our training programmes above, the key mission of our academy is to show that there is another way - a way without emails being at the heart of our workflows.
We want to help you disrupt the hyperactive hive mind and design a preventative shared approach to how we communicate and collaborate that supports our ‘single track minds’. We call this our…
Public Health Approach to Collaboration and Communication
This is a core theme of our training, but we also offer separate consultancy services that delve into your workflows and systems, and see how your organisation can work in a more person-centric way to get the best out of your people.
Book a FREE consultation or contact us to discuss your specific challenges and discover how we can help you conquer your inbox, improve focus and unleash your potential.
Return on Investment
Research from IBM shows that organizations investing in management and productivity training see between a 17-37% increase in productivity
Formal training programmes are linked to a 41% decrease in sick days
High-quality training and development programs reduce staff turnover-often by 9–10 percentage points or more-across public sectors organisations.