Employees Increase Overall Productivity Through Preparation
Laura Stack, known as The Productivity Pro®, specializes in increasing employee productivity in high-stress industries. As a personal productivity expert, Laura speaks on improving output, lowering stress, and saving time in today’s workplaces. It starts with Preparation!
Highlands Ranch, CO (PRWEB) September 21, 2004 -— The Productivity PRO®,
Laura Stack, helps businesses and employees improve their Productivity Quotient™
by applying her principles of Preparation -- i.e. how well you’ve laid the
foundation for your daily activities. As Stack points out, “Most people don’t
have well articulated goals and don’t know how to set them.” But, she adds,
“Goals become merely wishful thinking unless you further define them as
objectives with specific measurements and act upon them.”
While most
businesses today set yearly or even quarterly goals, they fail to take the next
step to set out clearly definable and measurable objectives that will keep their
employees on the path to success. Benchmarks for these objectives should be
stated and measured in set timeframes: quarterly, monthly, weekly – or even
daily. Unlike “To Do” lists that can become laundry lists of tasks (go to the
meeting, return the call), objectives set the direction for prioritizing the
tasks that lead to the accomplishment of the overall goal.
Stack’s
approach is not time management, but life management: offering techniques and
solutions that can be incorporated into all aspects of our daily lives both in
and out of the office. Her ultimate goal is to enable everyone to leave the
office earlier by becoming more productive.
Specific techniques and
practical application are outlined for each of the following
guidelines:
• Abide by a personal mission statement
• Track long term goals and
objectives
• Create high quality performance
objectives
• Define specific job responsibilities and
related tasks
• Maintain a list of projects to accomplish
and break the large ones into concrete steps
• Conduct
weekly/monthly/yearly reviews of your plan
• Track tasks,
projects, and appointments effectively
• Create and
prioritize to-do list everyday
• Schedule your day
realistically. Manage it successfully. Complete what you
planned
• Determine the best channel of communication to
convey your message BEFORE you send it
Fun, interactive quizzes speed
readers to exactly the advice and techniques they need the most. By combining
fill-in-the-blanks charts and lists with her established techniques, Stack
presents a method of organization that can be individualized and effective. With
Laura Stack's help, you'll work more efficiently and be more productive in every
area of your life, so that you can really live according to your priorities.
Don't just work faster, learn how to be more productive during the day, get your
work done in less time, and get home to your life sooner.
Laura Stack,
MBA, CSP, is a popular professional speaker known as The Productivity PRO®. She
has been featured on CNN and is the author of the best-selling book "Leave the
Office Earlier" (2004 Broadway Books), which was highly acclaimed by the New
York Times as "the best of the bunch." Laura is national Secretary of the
National Speakers Association 2003-2006 and presents keynotes and seminars on
personal productivity, time management, and life balance.
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/9/prweb159965.htm