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...

Mentoring has a significant beneficial impact on the life of the protege. How can you effectively be this person for employees and help them achieve their highest visions of themselves? Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, defines mentoring and explores how you've benefited from mentoring relationships in your life. The objectives are for you to: • Discover the benefits of being a mentor and a protege. • Avoid potential pitfalls of mentoring relationships. • Understand ...

When an employee doesn't perform up to par, a manager must evaluate why the job isn't getting done and help the employee improve.  Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, will teach you how! You'll determine the cause of performance problems, create a motivating environment where employees want to give their best, and criticize effectively when needed. You'll learn how to: • Analyze employee performance problems. • Motivate people to perform at their highest potential.

Faster TogetherAccelerating Your Team's ProductivityThere are more roadblocks to productivity today than ever before. Everyone who works must deal with countless emails, constant communication, cascading deadlines, and seemingly endless meetings. These can be managed efficiently, or they can be a huge time suck. When you're surrounded by slow-moving coworkers, you're stuck in a traffic jam of sorts. What makes the difference isn't individuals working harder or faster or smart...

Turn Strategy into Performance! In today’s world of rapid, disruptive change, strategy can’t be separate from execution—it has to emerge from execution. You have to continually adjust your strategy to fit new realities. But if your organization isn’t set up to be fast on its feet, you could easily go the way of Blockbuster or Borders. Laura Stack shows you how to quickly drive strategic initiatives and get great results from your team. Her LEAD Formula outlines the Four Keys to Successful ...

Burning the midnight oil is harmful to employees and employers. But deadlines loom, e-mail piles up, and your star employee has put in another thirteen-hour day. How can leaders keep key people producing at high levels but not leave the organization from overwork and stress? Laura Stack will explain how to:• Articulate the long and short-term benefits of high productivity.• Create a win/win dual contract of productivity.• Select the best method of communication for yo...

This Productivity Pro TIP eBook focuses on improving your personal productivity by organizing three critical areas: 1. Time 2. Information 3. People This eBook is written for anyone responsible for improving personal productivity---in yourself or others. Whether you're a corporate worker, a small business owner, a government employee, or a stay-at-home parent, this series will help you improve your productivity with specific, actionable, practical TIPs for su...

Veteran professional speaker, Laura Stack, outlines the five steps to prepare for any presentation: 1. Develop your objectives. 2. Analyze the audience. 3. Structure the body and main ideas. 4. Create supporting information. 5. Develop your opening, closing, and transitions. Laura Stack will teach you how to control your speaking environment through proper room logistics: seating, set-up, microphone, and audio/visual arrangements. You'll learn to ...

If you're tired of climbing the corporate ladder, may we suggest that you take the elevator instead? SuperCompetent productivity habits can take you off that old rung-by-rung advance and push you ahead so fast that you won't even have time to notice that glass ceiling as you pass through. Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, teaches you how to turbo-charge your productivity skills by: 1. Taking full responsibility for your own success. 2. Concentrating on your most important ...

Successful people don't trade personal satisfaction for professional achievement. They know high performance depends on both. To avoid the peaks and valleys of productivity created by balancing the urgent demands of work and personal life, professionals must be able to balance both without sacrificing either. In this eBook, Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, presents her superb life balance solutions: • Establish your governing purpose and values. • Allocate time according ...

Do you have a firm grasp on your time? After all, you can't actually control time or add more to your day. The only thing you can control is yourself. Can you manage yourself well enough to get the most out of the time you have? Bestselling author Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, will lead you through an analysis of your time to help you: • Analyze your time like you analyze your money; • Plan the next day the night before; • Avoid the decision dilemma and know what...

Powerful people exude the passion that commits fully to a course of action and sees it all the way through. Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, will teach you how to develop a winning mindset and maintain consistent, productive behaviors: • Keep an eye on your stress level and pay attention to your emotional health. • Remain creative and open to change. • Always seek better solutions. • Keep working on a task until you whittle it down to size, even when it's monu...