- 2011 The Organized Executive's Special Issue
4 investments for a successful 2012 You’ve developed your financial budget, strategy and staffing plans for the new year. Now determine how to spend your most precious resource: your time. With thoughtful investments of your time this year, reaching all your other goals will be easier. Allocate more time to these four areas ...
- Outlook 2010 Tip Sheet
This is the second in a series of free special reports from The Organized Executive to show you how to work more efficiently in the latest Microsoft Office programs. Download the Office 2007 and 2010 tip sheet to discover shortcuts for all Office applications.
- Goal-Setting Worksheet
Map out your plan for success by downloading the Goal-Setting Worksheet adapted from The Complete Performance Review Toolkit.
- 10 Tasks to Start Delegating Today
Looking for a tough new weapon to wield against your growing list of "to dos" and "must dos"? A busy leader's best tactic: Delegate more. Here are some tasks you should turn over to your teammates, starting today!
- Office 2007 and 2010 Tip Sheet
Use this tip sheet to learn how to work more efficiently in the latest Microsoft Office programs.
- Vacation Planning Worksheet
Using this form will ensure that all your bases are covered when an employee goes on vacation.
- How to Say 'No'
If you said "Yes" to every person who seeks you out during a typical workday, you would never have the time or engery to complete your own top-priority tasks. That is why learning to say "No" and make it stick is such an important time-management skill.
- Stop the Meeting Madness: Make the Most of Your Time Together
Love 'em or hate 'em, you can't avoid meetings altogether. And even the most meeting-phobic among us would have to admit that meetings are an entirely necessary evil. So the trick is not to avoid sitting down at that conference table. The trick is to make the most of every minute you are there.
- 25 Tips for Using Email More Efficiently
Barely more than a decade ago-way back in the last century-e-mail was something that few people used regularly. Today, most likely you would describe e-mail as both an indispensable tool and a headache. Even though you rely on e-mail to communicate, the number of messages you send and receive each day can drain hours of productivity. If you don't take control, that little ping alerting you to an incoming e-mail message will lure you away from what you should be doing.
- Take a Positive Approach to Employee Complaints
Keep your team members working strong together Dealing with employee complaints is a common-albeit frustrating-part of any manager's job. Mastering that responsibility will enhance your performance and allow you to improve your work group's efficiency and effectiveness.
Meet Our Advisory Board
Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro®
Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, has consulted with Fortune 500 corporations for nearly 20 years in the field of personal productivity. She helps leaders create high-performance cultures in their teams and organizations and achieve Maximum Results in Minimum Time®. She is the president of The Productivity Pro® Inc., a time management training firm specializing in productivity improvement in high-stress organizations. Since 1992, Stack has presented keynotes and seminars on improving output, lowering stress and saving time in today’s workplaces. She is one of a handful of professional speakers whose business focuses solely on time management and productivity topics. Stack is a high-energy, high-content speaker, who educates, entertains and motivates professionals to improve workplace productivity.
Stack is the bestselling author of four books, including SuperCompetent: The Six Keys to Perform at Your Productive Best (Wiley, 2010); The Exhaustion Cure (Broadway Books, 2008), Find More Time (Broadway Books, 2006), and the bestselling Leave the Office Earlier (Broadway Books, 2004), which was hailed as “the best of the bunch” by The New York Times. Her books have been published in seven countries and translated into five foreign languages, including Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese and Italian. She is also a contributor to two of the popular Chicken Soup for the Soul books. Stack’s popular monthly electronic newsletter has subscribers in 38 countries. She is a Microsoft Certified Application Specialist in Outlook.
Widely regarded as one of the leading experts in the field of employee productivity and workplace issues, she has been featured nationally on the CBS Early Show, CNN, NPR, Bloomberg, NBC TV, WB News, The New York Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, the WashingtonPost.com, the Chicago Tribune, O Magazine, Entrepreneur, Readers Digest and Forbes magazine. Stack has been a spokesperson for Microsoft, 3M, Skillsoft, Office Depot and Xerox, and she is the creator of The Productivity Pro® planner by Day-Timer. Her client list includes top Fortune 500 companies, including Starbucks, Wal-Mart, IBM, GM, MillerCoors, Lockheed Martin, Wells Fargo and Time Warner, plus a multitude of associations and governmental agencies.
Stack holds an MBA in Organizational Management (University of Colorado, 1991), integrating the importance of productivity in business with employee retention and satisfaction. She is the 2011-2012 president of the National Speakers Association and is the recipient of the Certified Speaking Professional designation, NSA’s highest earned designation.
Stack lives with her husband and three children in Denver, Colo.
Learn more at www.TheProductivityPro.com, or contact Laura directly by e-mail at Laura@TheProductivityPro.com or by phone at 303-471-7401.
Mike Myatt, CEO coach, author and managing director at N2Growth
Mike Myatt is a top CEO coach, author of Leadership Matters ... The CEO Survival Manual and is the managing director and chief strategy officer at N2growth. As one of America's top CEO Coaches, Myatt is a sought-after professional advisor known for his savvy, yet straight forward approach to business in serving some of the nation's top CEOs. As an executive Myatt has held numerous C-suite positions, as an entrepreneur he has been a principal in four successful ventures, and as a professional advisor he has worked with clients ranging from successful CEOs and other public figures to Fortune 100 companies.
Some of Myatt's accomplishments prior to serving as managing director and chief strategy officer at N2growth include serving as president and chief operating officer of a commercial real estate investment bank, managing director of a law firm, director of internet strategy for the country's largest Web enablement firm, and he founded what was prior to its sale one of the country's Top 50 interactive advertising agencies.
Myatt has been recognized as one of the world's top 25 leadership experts, and is acclaimed for his contributions to the field of leadership. He is also a syndicated columnist and contributing editor on topics of leadership and innovation. His theories and practices have been taught at many of the nation's top business schools, and his work has been noted in several publications including: Psychology Today, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, Chicago Sun Times, Personal Branding, Institutional Investor, CIO magazine and others. He is also the author and moderator of the N2growth Blog which was ranked as the #1 consulting blog in 2009 by Postrank, has been recognized as an AllTop Leadership Blog, and is on the AdAge Power 150 list of top marketing blogs. Myatt also frequently presents webcasts for CEOs and entrepreneurs and keynotes on topics of leadership, branding, innovation and social media.
Myatt has been married for more than 25 years and has two married children.
Visit www.N2growth.com to learn more.
Peggy Duncan, personal productivity expert, trainer and consultant coach
Peggy Duncan is an award-winning personal productivity expert: a combination professional organizer, project manager and computer trainer. That's a powerful set of skills she uses to help busy people save as much as two months a year by showing them how to work smarter.
As an international speaker/trainer, her client list includes media powerhouses, corporate giants, national associations, government agencies and educational institutions.
She is the founder of The Digital Breakthroughs Institute whose mission is to provide hands-on, highly interactive workshops for small business owners who want to improve their technology skills and boost their productivity. Classes are taught by experts and include such topics as Wordpress Blogging Bootcamp; Do-It-Yourself Search Engine Optimization; Do-It-Yourself Public Relations; Time Management with Outlook; Create Marketing Collateral Using PowerPoint; Get Organized At Work; Computer Magic; and a lot more. The Digital Breakthroughs Institute is located 5 minutes from Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport at 1691 Phoenix Blvd, Suite 350. Professionals and business owners anxious to take their skills to another level have traveled from as far away as Las Vegas.
Visit www.PeggyDuncan.com to learn more.