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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.
The Perfect Starting Point (If You Don't Know Where to Start) | p. viii |
Find Your Own Productivity Balance | p. 1 |
Help! I'M Just not Getting Anywhere | p. 7 |
Assess Your Energy Levels | p. 8 |
Find Your Energy Drains and Enhancers | p. 13 |
Improve How You Connect With Others | p. 18 |
Simplify Unnecessary Complexity | p. 24 |
Figure Out Your Key Priorities | p. 29 |
Overcome Your Procrastination With Action | p. 34 |
Create a 'Feel Good' State | p. 39 |
To do: Get to Know Self | p. 43 |
Examine What's Important For You Now | p. 44 |
Find Your Key Values From Seemingly Random Things | p. 50 |
Discover Your Needs and Desires | p. 55 |
Use Past Failures to Build Resilience and Strength | p. 61 |
Clarify Your Goals | p. 68 |
Be Productive Across All Your Key Priorities | p. 73 |
Work Out Where Your Actions Are Taking You | p. 79 |
Not Good Enough! | p. 85 |
Face Your Productivity Ally | p. 86 |
Use Your Emotions to Generate Positive Results | p. 92 |
Unlock Your Perspective to Make Better Decisions | p. 97 |
Understand How Your Brain Helps You to Be Productive | p. 102 |
Take Control of Your Fear | p. 107 |
Follow Your WANTs Instead of Your MUSTs | p. 113 |
Use the Power of Criticism to Become Your True Best | p. 117 |
Take Responsibility For What You Create | p. 122 |
Get Productive and Just do it! | p. 127 |
Identify Your Productivity Blockers | p. 128 |
Thirteen Proven Productivity Strategies You Need to Know | p. 133 |
Develop Productive Thinking | p. 157 |
Develop Productive Conversations | p. 162 |
Ask Productive Questions | p. 168 |
Get in the Zone and Make Time Count | p. 173 |
Take Control of the Impact You Make | p. 174 |
Identify How You Add Value | p. 179 |
Uncover Your Specific and Unique Capabilities | p. 183 |
Get Results That Are Worth the Effort | p. 190 |
Hone Your Key Message(s) | p. 195 |
Mine Your Past Successful Strategies | p. 199 |
Give Yourself Permission to Shine | p. 203 |
Find the Tribe That Will Help You Soar | p. 207 |
What Does True Productivity Feel Like? | p. 212 |
Final Note | p. 215 |
Further Reading | p. 217 |
Thanks | p. 218 |
About the Author | p. 220 |
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