Your Best Just Got Better Work Smarter, Think Bigger, Achieve More

by Womack, Jason W.

• ISBN13: 9781118121986
• ISBN10: 1118121988
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-02-07
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Imagine if your best just got better every single day In Your Best Just Got Better, productivity expert Jason Womack teaches readers that working longer hours doesnt make up for a flawed approach to productivity and performance. Workers need to clarify their habits, build mindset-based strategies, and be proactive. Womacks signature "workplace performance" techniques offer specific strategies to consistently and incrementally improve performance. Readers will: Understand the fundamentals of workflow and the principles of human performance Arm themselves with the tools and the processes to get more of their work done, on time, with fewer resources, and with less stress Making your best better wont happen overnight, but learning how to effectively manage just a few critical success factors lead to an effective workday and an overall successful professional career.

Author Biography

JASON W. WOMACK is CEO and founder of the Jason Womack Company, which provides customized training on workplace performance. As an executive coach, he shows clients—managers, employees, and entrepreneurs—how to work smart, think big, and make more. Coaching hundreds of individuals and traveling extensively, Jason has facilitated more than 1200 Workplace Performance workshops.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xi
Prologue	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xv
Work Smarter	p. 1
Improvement and You: Identifying Your Role in Making Your Best Better	p. 3
Improvement and Pacing: Building and Sustaining Habits That Lead to Productivity	p. 29
Improvement and Time: Get the Most from 1 Percent of Your Day!	p. 49
Think Bigger	p. 71
Improvement and Self-Efficacy: If You Think You Can, You Probably Can	p. 73
Improvement and the Social Network: If You Want to Go Far, Fast, Go Together	p. 91
Improvement and Tracking: What Is in the Way, What Is Along the Way?	p. 109
Improvement and Purpose: Clarify and Promote Your Own "So That…"	p. 129
Make More	p. 153
Improvement and Feedback: Knowing How to Ask for It and What to Do with It	p. 155
Improvement and Focus: The Resource That Affects All Others	p. 179
Improvement and Practice: Practice Doesn't Make Perfect, It Makes Comfortable	p. 201
Conclusion	p. 227
Acknowledgments	p. 233
Index	p. 235
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