Laura Stack - The Productivity Pro(R)
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Maximum Results in Minimum Time(R)
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Helping people leave the office earlier
with less stress and more to show for it.
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Who is Laura Stack?
Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro(r)
GOT PRODUCTIVITY?
Mark your calendars and to attend THE PRODUCTIVITY ACADEMY!
You asked for it! Join Laura Stack for a full-day productivity boot camp on Friday, June 22, 2012 in Denver from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Laura Stack will teach her all-new, step-by-step formula on how to achieve high levels of personal productivity today. Millions of Americans know they need to be on top of their game in the new economic reality! Who better than The Productivity Pro® to show you how?
Limited to 100 people only.
What will you learn?
You'll learn Laura's innovative PRODUCTIVITY WORKFLOW FORMULA (PWF). Are you tired of hearing "do more with less"? Many people are already working as long and as hard as they can, and "productivity improvement" classes can be hard to swallow. Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro®, turns time management on its head and shows overwhelmed professionals how to actually DO LESS and ACHIEVE MORE. They'll produce greater results and create significant impact on organizational goals. Laura teaches her latest thinking using this innovative workflow formula to reduce to-do lists, reduce commitments, reduce distractions, reduce the glut of information, reduce inefficiencies, and reduce energy expenditure. Past clients using these systems and methods report savings of 90 minutes a day and higher productivity than ever before!
- Course objectives:
- Refuse meetings and requests for your time when appropriate and learn to say no graciously.
- Determine the perfect daily routine that fits your rhythms and know when to do what tasks.
- Create a system that integrates your company software, email (Outlook emphasis), your handheld, electronic information, and your paperwork.
- Use simple, inexpensive technologies to filter, process, and organize incoming and outgoing information.
- Learn six crucial brain shifts you must make to be organized in today's workplace.
- Discover a new sense of freedom from overload and control that you've not felt in years!
- Track delegation, projects, tasks, and pending items from beginning to end without remembering!
- Learn seven steps to plan your schedule the night before, so you can hit the ground running.
- Reduce distractions, improve concentration, eliminate multi-tasking, stay focused, and actually get something done!
- Create a systematic workflow to weed out the high-value tasks, protect the time to do them, focus on their execution, and organize around it.
- Process and organize your email quickly and regularly empty your inbox. Know where to keep emails that need answers (hint: it's not your inbox).
- Track your client communications, phone calls, conversations, and meeting results, and quickly pull that information from your system.
Who should attend?
- The Productivity Pro Boot Camp is for professionals who want to achieve exceptional performance and productivity in all areas of their lives. It's applicable to any level of employee in any kind of company or organization, including:
- Staff and middle management level "office" and "staff" positions such as marketing, admins, IT, HR, PR, operations, purchasing, etc.
- Leaders and managers in small or large corporations, including team leaders, first level supervisors, mid-level managers, and key executives, who want to provide coaching to their employees.
- Entrepreneurs and business owners who need to spend a majority of their time on revenue-producing activities and reduce the administrative burden.
- Salespeople, such as financial services, professional services, insurance, real estate, pharmaceutical, business owners.
- Human Resource executives, who need assistance in the performance review process creating development plans for employees with low personal productivity and performance.
Questions? Email Becca@TheProductivityPro.com or call 303-471-7401. See you there!
What To Do When There's Too Much To Do
Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 a Minutes Day
Are you tired of productivity consultants-or worse, your boss-pushing you to do more with less? You're in luck. Laura Stack knows your to-do list is already packed to capacity, so she shows you how to accomplish more by doing less. Yes, you read that right. Stack's innovative time-management system lets you work less and achieve more.
Following Stack's step-by-step Productivity Workflow Formula, you'll organize your life around the tasks that really matter and-this is crucial-let go of those that don't. Dozens of practical strategies will help you reduce your commitments, distractions, interruptions, and inefficiencies. You'll shrink your to-do list and save time-around ninety minutes a day-while skyrocketing your results and maintaining your sanity.
"With the world spinning faster every day, Stack's advice is especially timely. Her easy-to-implement system will get busy workers off the treadmill and on the right track."
-Harvey Mackay, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive
"Practical. Precise. Pithy. Stack's finest work to date. This book provides a productive path to a satisfying life."
-Dianna Booher, author of Creating Personal Presence and Communicate with Confidence!
"Finally, a guaranteed method to lose weight-the weight of thousands of issues dragging you down and slowing your progress. Stack turns you into a lean, mean performance machine. You will want to put this book down-so that you can hurry to get your life back in order."
-Alan Weiss, PhD, author of Million Dollar Consulting and The Consulting Bible
What to Do When There's Too Much to Do
Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 Minutes a Day!
What To Do When There's Too Much To Do: Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 a Minutes Day
Amazon Price: $10.74 (as of 05/28/2012)
These days, everyone is busy. Advances in technology mean there is more information to sort through than ever. Work hours have increased, but to-do lists are endless - schedules get blown in the first five minutes of the day. You could spend more time "planning" and "prioritizing" your list than actually doing the work! At work and in life, we all just have too much to do! And when you have too much to do, it's hard to feel productive.
If you can't do everything, you need to put your time and energy into what will yield the more important results. Laura Stack shows how to hone in on the high-value tasks, protect the time to do them, focus on their execution, and organize your life around the stuff that really matters. Her innovative, step-by-step Productivity Workflow Formula (PWF) allows you to spend less time and achieve greater results than you ever thought possible. We can no longer do more with less - we can't put in more hours or work harder than we are now - we have to work differently and do less to achieve more.
SuperCompetent
The Six Keys to Perform at Your Productive Best
New Webinars from The Productivity Pro(R)
Microsoft Outlook 2010 and Productivity Topics
- ALL NEW Microsoft Outlook (2010 version) online webinar training series!
- After twelve one-hour monthly webinars and practice applications, you will be an expert in Microsoft Outlook 2010 by the end of 2011!
You're spending HOURS every day in your email, correct? How would you like to shave AT LEAST an hour a day off this onerous task? With a savings of five hours a week, would could Leave the Office Earlier® and get home to your life! Laura is a Microsoft Certified Application Specialist (MCAS) in Outlook, and she will open your eyes to productivity features you didn't even know existed (most people only know 20% of its capabilities)! This training will be real-world, reality-based workflow processing that helps you be MORE productive with Outlook, instead of wasting hours every day playing with it.
No travel is required-you attend this virtual training "live" from the privacy of your own office or home (anywhere with an internet connection). Laura will present twelve one-hour modules covering various aspects of Outlook. This isn't just computer training. It's not PowerPoint. She will share her desktop and show her computer screen LIVE using her actual Microsoft Outlook software.
Each webinar is accompanied by a workbook with detailed screen shots and step-by-step instructions, so you can duplicate what Laura demonstrates when the seminar is over. It is a real-time demonstration, where you'll follow along with your workbook and then go implement what we've done on your system. You'll get one month to master the techniques she shows each month, before she adds to your growing knowledge the following month. - 2012 Productivity Webinars LIVE with Laura Stack
- Get ready for a productive 2012 with twelve ALL-NEW monthly productivity webinars with Laura Stack! Bring Laura into the privacy of your own office, conference room, or home for a dose of monthly personal productivity training!
This series very affordable for everyone, even if you have to pay for it yourself! At just $39 per seminar (volume discounts available), you can experience the most innovative productivity ideas from Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro®, guaranteed to skyrocket your productivity and boost profits.
Don't worry about attending "live" if you're booked that day-your purchase includes the recording. You can participate in the webinar or watch the playback from anywhere with an internet connection. You can dial in via phone or listen right from your computer speakers.
Microsoft Outlook Virtual Training with Laura Stack
Online training - when it is convenient for YOU! Outlook 2003, 2007, and 2010
After announcing our "live" Microsoft Outlook training in Denver, we received many pleas from people who DON'T live in Colorado, requesting that that we create a virtual training option that you could attend from your location. WE HEARD YOU! Announcing The Productivity Pro® Microsoft Outlook virtual training series! Attend "live" training with Laura Stack, a Microsoft Certified Specialist in Outlook, from the privacy of your home or office.
I'm going to present ten modules covering various aspects of Outlook step-by-step. This isn't just computer training. It's real-world, reality-based workflow processing that helps you actually be MORE productive with Outlook, instead of wasting hours every day playing with it. I estimate most people know 10-20% of the capacities of Outlook. Even if you think you're an "expert," you'll be shocked by what you don't know you don't know.
I'm making each one-hour webinar very affordable at $39 per person. If you order all ten, the price is discounted to $349 per person. Each person will receive a detailed PDF workbook to accompany each webinar, with detailed screen shots, so you can duplicate what I do in the seminar.
MODULES
- The series topics are as follows:
- Customizing Your Outlook
- Inbox/Outbox/Sent Items/Drafts
- Tasks
- Calendar
- Notes and Journal
- Contacts
- Time Savers
- Advanced E-mail Tricks
- Email Communication
- Workflow
To view detailed module descriptions, register for any or all of these courses, or to watch video previews, please visit http://www.theproductivitypro.com/s_outlook-virtual-training-products.htm
Laura Stack's BRAND NEW Book - SuperCompetent
SuperCompetent is a Best-Seller!
SuperCompetent: The Six Keys to Perform at Your Productive Best
List Price: $24.95
To be successful in the business world and reach your full potential in life, it's not enough to be simply competent. Our modern, super-competitive world is full of opportunities for the go-getter, but to take advantage of them, it's essential to become "SuperCompetent." The SuperCompetent person is one that companies fight to get, fight to keep, nurture as team players, and see as future leaders in their business growth.
But SuperCompetence isn't something you're born with-it's something that you can learn, no matter where your strengths lie or what industry you work in. In SuperCompetent, productivity expert Laura Stack identifies the behaviors that build leadership skills, boost organizational efficiency, and blast high potential producers to the top of their fields. With Stack's Six Keys, you'll be able to consistently improve your performance, develop the confidence that will propel you forward, and achieve breakthrough results in your career.
- Activity: The value and importance you place on your tasks and priorities
- Availability: The ability to master your schedule and protect your time
- Attention: The capacity to focus intently and concentrate on critical activities
- Accessibility: The skill to organize your workflow and quickly find information
- Accountability: The extent to which you assume personal responsibility for your actions and outcomes
- Attitude: The intensity of your motivation, drive, and proactiveness
With worksheets and quizzes that help you evaluate your performance at every stage, and invaluable resources for further information, you'll be able to integrate the Six Keys of SuperCompetence into your daily, weekly, and lifetime business practices. From the sales floor to the conference room, from board meetings to informal networking events, SuperCompetent enables you to build your focus, manage your resources, and maximize your ability to deliver at every level.
Release Date: 12/31/1969
Laura Stack Links
Where to find The Productivity Pro(R) Online
- The Productivity Pro - Time Management Keynote, Productivity Spokesperson, Personal Productivity Expert - Home Page
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- The Productivity Pro(R) Blog
- Time management, getting things done, how to be more productive.
- Twitter / laurastack
- Twitter is a free social messaging utility for staying connected in real-time. Follow Laura on Twitter!
- The Exhaustion Cure: Up Your Energy From Low to Go in 21 Days - The New Book by Laura Stack, MBA, CSP - The Productivity Pro
- By Laura Stack, MBA, CSP - The Productivity Pro(R)
- YouTube - theproductivitypro's Channel
- See Laura Stack in action on YouTube
- The Productivity Pro Planner Bundle from Day-Timer
- Laura Stack's Productivity Pro Planner from Day-Timer - as seen on QVC.
- Day-Timer Productivity Pro Planner Multi-PocketVinyl Binder - QVC.com
- QVC - The Productivity Pro Planner
- The Productivity Pro on Podbean
- Laura Stack's Audio Podcasts
- The Productivity Center
- The Video and Audio Podcast Portal of The Productivity Pro(R).
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The Productivity Minute
Productivity Tips and Tricks on YouTube from Laura Stack
What is Your Biggest Productivity Challenge?
What keeps you from getting done what needs to be done? If it's not one of the things we've listed, leave a comment in the guest book and let us know!
Executive Time Management
How Time Management Changes As You Move From Middle Management To The VP/C-Suite Level
By the time you reach the upper tiers of management, you'll certainly be an expert at organizing and managing your work day-but you'll soon realize that things work a little differently at the C-Suite level. In particular, how you use your time and who you give it to undergoes significant changes. Priorities and responsibilities shift; sometimes subtly, often radically. There's much more to do, and the ante is higher: your actions impact the organization in ways undreamt of before.The modern business environment demands exceptional leadership, so you have to do whatever's necessary to enhance productivity and efficiency at all levels. Not least , you need to be able to juggle multiple projects without getting bogged down, while simultaneously balancing customer, employee, and shareholder demands. You must also be willing to make the organizational changes necessary to facilitate these aims. All this requires a high level of intelligence, energy, and discipline that sets you above the rest of your organizational hierarchy.
To accomplish these ends, you'll also need to employ time management techniques superior to the everyday methods you mastered before you ascended to the C-Suite. If you can develop them, then you can maintain control over your own destiny; otherwise, you're likely to be overwhelmed or, worse, swept aside as success passes you by.
Let's look at ways that you can avoid those fates.
Don't Overdo It
I'll start out with a point that some execs never seem to understand: working long hours isn't good enough. You wouldn't be where you are today if you weren't dedicated to the job and the organization; that should be self-evident. You don't have to kill yourself to prove it.
And I mean exactly that. In Japan, there's an entrenched tradition of working superhuman amounts of unpaid overtime, more to demonstrate company loyalty than to enhance productivity. It also drives high levels of "karoshi," literally the practice of working yourself to death. This isn't unique to Japan; many Westerners, especially at the executive level, have the same problem.
As much as I hate to use a tired cliché, you really do need to work smarter, not harder. Your goal shouldn't be to outwork the other guy. Get a handle on what's really important in your organization, and focus on that; don't just push and push and push until you fall over.
Working too many hours is demonstrably counterproductive, because it results in decreased productivity. Studies have repeatedly shown that a 60-hour work week results, on average, in a 25% decrease in productivity. The productivity numbers just get worse as the number of work hours increases.
The lesson here? People aren't robots. Long hours lead to physical and mental fatigue. This results in slower work, more mistakes, and wasted time. It may also lead to depression, which can spiral out of control if left untreated-which is often the case, because the person affected is too busy to take care of it. In recent years, there's been an alarming rash of suicides at the C-Suite level.
Read the rest of this article HERE.
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Leave the Office Earlier by Laura Stack
Leave the Office Earlier: The Productivity Pro Shows You How to Do More in Less Time...and Feel Great About It
Amazon Price: $2.92 (as of 05/28/2012)
Long hours. Juggling family and work. Deadlines. High stress levels. Today's professionals are feeling more overworked and overwhelmed than ever before. Yet you CAN get more done than you ever thought possible-and still get home to your real life sooner. Laura Stack, "The Productivity Pro,"® shows you how.
Leave the Office Earlier explores the ten key factors that improve results, lower stress, and save time in today's workplace. Fun, interactive quizzes speed you to exactly the advice and techniques you need the most. You can tailor this information-loaded book to your own needs by focusing on your problem areas-such as time-wasters, distractions, email overload, or poor organization-and by following the easy-to-implement solutions. With Laura Stack's help, you'll work more efficiently and be more productive in every area of your life, so that you can really live according to your priorities. Don't just work faster. Work better, reduce stress, and leave the office earlier!
Leave the Office Earlier Day Aims to Cap Workday at Eight Hours
"The eight-hour workday remains a myth to many working Americans," says Stack. "But by implementing some simple strategies and tactics, even the most overworked and overstressed people can be more productive and shorten their workday and feel good about it." Through focused productivity, workers can accomplish the results they need in less time, leave the office earlier, and get home to their lives.
Countdown to Leave the Office Earlier(R) Day!
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iTunes
| Track | Artist | Album | |
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| Making Teams Work: How to be a Productive and Effective Team | Laura Stack | Making Teams Work: How to be a Productive and Effective Team | |
| Where Did I Put My Keys?: Six Essential Skills for a Stellar Memory | Laura Stack | Where Did I Put My Keys?: Six Essential Skills for a Stellar Memory | |
| For Road Warriors: How to be Productive While Working out of a Suitcase | Laura Stack | For Road Warriors: How to Be Productive While Working Out of a Suitcase | |
| Looking at Time Through the Lens of Leadership: Get More Work from Fewer People…Without Making Them Hate You or Quit | Laura Stack | Looking at Time Through the Lens of Leadership: Get More Work from Fewer People…Without Making Them Hate You or Quit | |
| Communicating Effectively With Email: Courtesies, Protocols, and Time Savers | Laura Stack | Communicating Effectively With Email: Courtesies, Protocols, and Time Savers | |
| Organizing Your Closet And You Life: Clear The Clutter And Your Mind | Laura Stack | Organizing Your Closet And Your Life: Clear The Clutter And Your Mind | |
| Maintaining Energy During the Day: Beat the Exhaustion and Be More Productive | Laura Stack | Maintaining Energy During the Day: Beat the Exhaustion and Be More Productive | |
| Focusing on Your Work: Maintain Your Concentration in an Environment of Distraction | Laura Stack | Focusing On Your Work: Maintain Your Concentration In An Environment Of Distraction | |
| Leave the Office Earlier: How to Strike a Balance Between Workplace Productivity and Employee Burnout | Laura Stack | Leave the Office Earlier: How to Strike a Balance Between Workplace Productivity and Employee Burnout | |
| Get Rid of Stress & Burnout: Stress Management Tools to Relax and Reclaim a Balanced Life In Today's Stressful Times | Laura Stack | Get Rid of Stress & Burnout: Stress Management Tools to Relax and Reclaim a Balanced Life In Today's Stressful Times | |
| Keep Your Job, Your Family, and Your Sanity: Successful Solutions to Stress Less | Laura Stack | Keep Your Job, Your Family, and Your Sanity: Successful Solutions to Stress Less | |
| Managing Your Time: Planning and Prioritizing for Success. Featuring Laura Stack and The Productivity Pro® planner by Day-Timer | Laura Stack | Managing Your Time: Planning and Prioritizing for Success. Featuring Laura Stack and The Productivity Pro® planner by Day-Timer | |
| Apply 3-V Impact - Strengthen Your Visual, Verbal, and Vocal Image | Laura Stack | Apply 3-V Impact - Strengthen Your Visual, Verbal, and Vocal Image | |
| Creating a System That Works for You: Paper, Electronic, or Hybrid | Laura Stack | Creating a System That Works for You: Paper, Electronic, or Hybrid | |
| Important Components of a Time Management System: What You Need to Be Organized | Laura Stack | Important Components of a Time Management System: What You Need to Be Organized | |
| Creating an Effective Presentation: Preparing for Success, Controlling the Environment, and Overcoming Fear | Laura Stack | Creating An Effective Presentation: Preparing for Success, Controlling the Environment, and Overcoming Fear | |
| The Six Laws of Approachability: How to Break Down Barriers and Get People to Like You | Laura Stack | The Six Laws of Approachability: How to Break Down Barriers and Get People to Like You | |
| The Greatest Gift of All: Showing Your Love by Giving Your Time | Laura Stack | The Greatest Gift of All: Showing Your Love by Giving Your Time | |
| Leadership Strategies for the Four Stages of Change: Moving People to Commitment | Laura Stack | Leadership Strategies for the Four Stages of Change: Moving People to Commitment | |
| Time Management: How to Control Your Day in an Uncontrollable Workplace | Laura Stack | Time Management: How to Control Your Day in an Uncontrollable Workplace | |
| The Five C's of Good Communication - Business Writing for Success | Laura Stack | The Five C's of Good Communication - Business Writing for Success |
Find More Time by Laura Stack
Find More Time: How to Get Things Done at Home, Organize Your Life, and Feel Great About It
Amazon Price: $6.63 (as of 05/28/2012)
You have a sink full of dishes to wash, three loads of laundry to do, seventeen bills to pay, thirty-six e-mails to answer, a big stack of novels on the nightstand you'd love to read, and zero minutes of free time. You can't add more hours to the day, but Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro®, will help you make the most of the time you have and get things done.
The Productivity Pro® helps you determine what you have under control and where you need to improve. Are you good at managing your bills but can't find time to exercise? Do you get your kids to all their activities but end up constantly behind on laundry? Laura Stack shows you how to improve every area of your life.
Whether you need help on just a few things or feel like your life is totally out of control, Find More Time will help you organize your space, time, and information to reduce your stress and create and sustain a productive home environment, so you'll have more time to enjoy your life.
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The Exhaustion Cure by Laura Stack
Up Your Energy from Low to Go in 21 Days
The Exhaustion Cure: Up Your Energy from Low to Go in 21 Days
Amazon Price: $3.98 (as of 05/28/2012)
The Exhaustion Cure - A holistic approach to increasing your get-up and go, from the productivity expert whose previous books showed people how to Find More Time and Leave the Office Earlier. If you want to be productive but are just too tired all the time, you need to read this book! Laura Stack combines invaluable insights and practical advice in this guide to becoming more energetic and more productive in every area of life. Stack describes the factors that contribute to low energy (the "energy bandits") and explains how to reduce their effects and build up or renew sources of positive force (with "energy boosters"). Focusing on simple changes that make a huge difference, The Exhaustion Cure presents fresh, manageable ways to:
* Stop relying on caffeine, cigarettes, alcohol, and other substances to keep you going.
* Manage your workload and concentrate at work.
* Avoid letting negative situations or people control your thoughts and actions.
* Organize your efforts and productivity around deeply held values and goals.
Twenty-eight percent of Americans miss work every year because they are too exhausted to go. The Exhaustion Cure offers everyone from overtired parents to listless retirees sure-fire, easy-to-implement solutions.
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Do you have productivity tips or comments to share?
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Jerry Brower
Apr 9, 2011 @ 12:21 am | delete
- There is a great resource to small business start-ups that is often overlooked. A small business owner can free up a lot more productive time by utilizing “VIRTUAL INTERNS.” These can be had at little or no cost and handle the more mundane and repititious tasks. Of course all of this can be done in a virtual work environment. A helpful link to look at is:
http://www.vivifyllc.com/yourvirtualinterns/
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Jack_Bergstrand
Aug 13, 2009 @ 10:14 pm | delete
- This is a great lens! You've got a lot of really great productivity tips and information here. When you get a chance, it'd be great if you'd visit my lens on reinventing your enterprise and say hello.
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ckyle22
May 28, 2009 @ 7:41 pm | delete
- Laura,
Fantastic lens. You gave me lots of ideas for my lens, "The Lobbying Pro: Citizen involvement in Democracy".
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EclecticWAHM
Jan 20, 2009 @ 5:06 pm | delete
- Welcome to Squidoo, Laura! Your productivity tips are the best.
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