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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 exactl...

It takes a lot of work and discussion to get a team to function productively and effectively. Tapping a team's creative power can only happen when team members recognize and value each other's contributions and strengths. Laura Stack offers great ""team building"" ideas to help you:• Understand the advantages of using teams to solve problems.• Discover the four ""time styles"" and the characteristics and behaviors of each.• Understand your personal time style and grap...

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...

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 advantag...

Do you have the ""Depression Mentality""? Are you tidy but disorganized? Do you have your organizing system in your head? If so, you need the help of bestselling author Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro. Laura will help you truly get organized at work and home, so you can retrieve information quickly. You will learn how to:• Create the eight different types of files.• Apply the six principles of filing to your system.• Prevent the ""to be filed"" pile from overtaking ...

Raising a motivated teenager doesn’t have to be a struggle! Empower yourself with the knowledge that will make your child-rearing years a success. Plenty of tools and methods exist that you can use today to make your child’s teen years happy and successful. These are pivotal years in the life of your child, and you can prepare your teenagers to be productive in school, happy in their relationships, and on their way to a bright future.Parents have dealt with rebellious teen...

If you have sales targets to achieve, sales pipelines to fill, or quarterly sales goals that require excellent prospecting skills, this product is for you! This is also the perfect resource for people just getting into sales or working part time on growing a book of business. First off, it will teach you that prospecting for new customers does not have to be hard—or wearisome. In fact, many highly successful salespeople enjoy the hunt and have clever strategies for making rejection amusing...

Being negative really takes extra energy, which you could otherwise be channeling into your favorite pursuits. Instead, learn to approach life with a positive, can-do attitude! Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, will teach you how to cultivate tolerance instead of impatience; optimism rather than pessimism; and gratitude over an ungrateful spirit. To conquer your ""stinking thinking,"" you need to:• Stop negative thoughts in their tracks.• Create alternative mental pictures....

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 tho...

A How-To Guide for the Modern LeaderInspired by Peter Drucker's groundbreaking book The Effective Executive, Laura Stack details precisely how 21st-century leaders and managers can obtain profitable, productive results by managing the intersection of two critical values: effectiveness and efficiency.Effectiveness, Stack says, is identifying and achieving the best objectives for your organization—doing the right things. Efficiency is accomplishing them with the leas...

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...

Traditional productivity concepts look a bit different at the highest of senior leadership, and the standard approaches don't always apply.Executives need different guidance to maximize their performance each day. Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, identifies the six main productivity issues, concerns, and challenges faced by upper-level executives (CEO, CFO, CIO, Presidents, VPs, and Directors):PrioritizationSchedulingFocusOrganization