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 the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

LAURA STACK, MBA, CSP, is a personal productivity expert and the author of Leave the Office Earlier and Find More Time. As a professional speaker, she helps workers Leave the Office Earlier® with Maximum Results in Minimum Time™. Laura is the president of The Productivity Pro®, Inc., an international time management company whose clients include Microsoft, GM, Time Warner, Lockheed Martin, and Bank of America.Feeling fatigued? Wish you could have more get-up-and-g...

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...

Are you persistent in completing your high priority tasks without getting sidelined by menial activities? Do you work hard every day or only when you're in the mood? Do you have a set of ""rules"" for yourself that govern your behavior and activity? Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, will teach you how to stay motivated by disciplining yourself to maintain consistent, productive behaviors: • Know your natural energy cycle and work effectively during prime time...

Do you want to be more organized? Do you want to be able to find what you want, when you want it, in 30 seconds or less? If you need an organizational miracle to happen in your life, bestselling author Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, can bring you that miracle! She will successfully guide you in creating a system that works for you. Laura will:• Answer 18 questions to determine the best organizational method.• Learn about most popular approaches to organization.• D...

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...

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