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...

What to tackle and what to toss: "I don't know anyone who is more organized or who has more energy and has more fun getting things done than Laura Stack." —Mark Sanborn, New York Times–bestselling author of You Don't Need a Title to Be a LeaderThere is a set of skills that make it possible to not only effectively manage a whirlwind of daily tasks but breathe easier in the process. In this book, Laura Stack—aka the Productivity Pro—explains each sk...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Do you find yourself continually racing against time? Do you feel that you have so much to do that it's difficult to get anything done? Time management is much more complicated than making a list and checking things off. Managing time effectively is the key to managing your individual performance. In this audio program, Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, will teach you how to set priorities; focus on what's truly important; and schedule your day. You’ll learn how to: • Take advan...

Would you like to remember things more easily? Would you like to stop waking up in the middle of the night, suddenly thinking of something? Would you like to relieve your brain of the strain of tracking reminders? Now you can! Bestselling author Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, describes her six keys to improving your memory: 1. Stop being so absent-minded, learn retention techniques, and create reminder systems. 2. Make memory, daily, and category lists to record everyth...

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...

Are you wading through email every day? Would you like to reduce the amount of time spent in your inbox? Communicating more effectively with your team members and professional contacts will maximize your time and avoid wasting others' time. Bestselling author Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, offers tips to help you: • Decide whether email is the best method in a particular situation. • Handle emotional responses professionally. • Use the proper etiquette with the To...

Would you like to get people to instantly like you and be drawn to you, without them even knowing why? Now you can! Bestselling author Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, describes her Six Laws of Approachability: 1. Present yourself powerfully and project a million-dollar image. 2. Learn correct rules of etiquette for hand shaking, introductions, and business dress. 3. Toot your own horn and quickly communicate your value to others. 4. Model enthusiasm and a pos...

SERVICE is SURVIVAL. We're all competing for customers. If you don't provide good service to them, they'll go somewhere else.  Laura Stack, who has run a successful speaking and training business for nearly 20 years, will teach you how to get new customers and keep the ones you have by practicing the four things all customers want you to do: 1. Understand Their Expectations 2. Maintain Enthusiasm 3. Create Special Relationships 4. Watch Your Language