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9780857083463

Get Productive! Boosting Your Productivity And Getting Things Done

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    9780857083463

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    0857083465

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2012-08-20
  • Publisher: Capstone
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Summary

Want to improve your productivity but feeling stuck, overwhelmed or simply unsure what's important? Are you tired of the same tips and techniques that tell you to make goals, and to do lists, only to find yourself back where you started: overwhelmed, procrastinating, and unhappy with your results? It's time you got introduced to a new approach to what it takes to be productive and make time work for you, not against you. This book will literally transform how you think, what you focus on and what you do, so that you begin to create tangible results and take control of your life right away. An approach that is intuitive, easy to remember, simple to use, yet superbly powerful. No need to read pages and pages. In the few minutes it will take you to complete one of the exercises in this book, you will be shifting how your mind works, learning important thinking skills that will allow you to tackle important projects and all those ambitious goals with ease and power of a productivity master.

Author Biography

Dr. Magdalena Bak-Maier is a highly sought after Organisational and Individual Development Specialist, Neuroscientist, Learning Expert, Executive Coach, Trainer and Speaker, with over 10 years experience in the field of consulting, training and developing people with top-tier organisations and highly intelligent and creative professionals including renown scientists, artist and global social entrepreneurs.
Magdalena's productivity training has been used at the London School of Economics, on the Imperial business School MBA Programme, at the Royal College Of Music and at KLM/AirFrance. She has personally trained over 5000 people in professional effectiveness, communication and authentic leadership. She runs her own training and coaching practice including regular workshops and development programmes as well as a bespoke consultancy service.
Magdalena has a BSC from NYU and a PhD in Neuroscience from Caltech. She is a professionally qualified coach and full member of the Association for Coaching (MAC) as well as an accredited NLP practitioner. She is currently working on a series of articles for The Times Higher Education.

Table of Contents

The Perfect Starting Point (If You Don't Know Where to Start)p. viii
Find Your Own Productivity Balancep. 1
Help! I'M Just not Getting Anywherep. 7
Assess Your Energy Levelsp. 8
Find Your Energy Drains and Enhancersp. 13
Improve How You Connect With Othersp. 18
Simplify Unnecessary Complexityp. 24
Figure Out Your Key Prioritiesp. 29
Overcome Your Procrastination With Actionp. 34
Create a 'Feel Good' Statep. 39
To do: Get to Know Selfp. 43
Examine What's Important For You Nowp. 44
Find Your Key Values From Seemingly Random Thingsp. 50
Discover Your Needs and Desiresp. 55
Use Past Failures to Build Resilience and Strengthp. 61
Clarify Your Goalsp. 68
Be Productive Across All Your Key Prioritiesp. 73
Work Out Where Your Actions Are Taking Youp. 79
Not Good Enough!p. 85
Face Your Productivity Allyp. 86
Use Your Emotions to Generate Positive Resultsp. 92
Unlock Your Perspective to Make Better Decisionsp. 97
Understand How Your Brain Helps You to Be Productivep. 102
Take Control of Your Fearp. 107
Follow Your WANTs Instead of Your MUSTsp. 113
Use the Power of Criticism to Become Your True Bestp. 117
Take Responsibility For What You Createp. 122
Get Productive and Just do it!p. 127
Identify Your Productivity Blockersp. 128
Thirteen Proven Productivity Strategies You Need to Knowp. 133
Develop Productive Thinkingp. 157
Develop Productive Conversationsp. 162
Ask Productive Questionsp. 168
Get in the Zone and Make Time Countp. 173
Take Control of the Impact You Makep. 174
Identify How You Add Valuep. 179
Uncover Your Specific and Unique Capabilitiesp. 183
Get Results That Are Worth the Effortp. 190
Hone Your Key Message(s)p. 195
Mine Your Past Successful Strategiesp. 199
Give Yourself Permission to Shinep. 203
Find the Tribe That Will Help You Soarp. 207
What Does True Productivity Feel Like?p. 212
Final Notep. 215
Further Readingp. 217
Thanksp. 218
About the Authorp. 220
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