568: Minimizing Tasks While Maximizing Results with Laura Stack
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 7 May 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Productivity expert Laura Stack shares best–and worst–practices for prioritizing your tasks.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) The six steps to optimizing your workflow
2) The five productivity personality archetypes
3) How to work from home effectively
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— ABOUT LAURA —
Laura Stack is a noted expert in employee and team productivity, she’s also best known by her moniker, “The Productivity Pro.” She is also an award-winning keynote speaker and a bestselling author of eight books. She is the President and CEO of The Productivity Pro, Inc., a boutique consulting firm helping leaders increase workplace performance in high-stress environments.
Laura has been featured in the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur and Forbes magazine. She is a high-content Certified Speaking Professional (CSP), who educates, entertains, and motivates professionals to deliver bottom-line results.
• Book: What To Do When There's Too Much To Do: Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 Minutes a Day
• LinkedIn: Laura Stack
• Website: TheProductivityPro.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• App: Todoist
• Book: The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter Drucker
• Software: Microsoft Outlook Tasks
• Software: ShortKeys
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McChitis. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello and thanks for joining us for episode 568 with Laura Stack. |
| 0:23.4 | Laura is sharing some best and worst practices for prioritizing your tasks |
| 0:27.8 | to get your productivity on. |
| 0:29.1 | So you'll learn one, the six steps to optimize in your workflow, |
| 0:32.4 | two, the five productivity personality |
| 0:35.1 | archetypes, and three, how to work from home all the more effectively. |
| 0:38.7 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to Adams we've referenced, |
| 0:42.0 | it's over to also |
| 0:42.6 | at your job.com slash F five six eight and if you're visiting awesome at your job |
| 0:47.3 | dot com you might also check out the gold nugget email list which has summary |
| 0:50.3 | insights from Laura and all the guests who have come before her. |
| 0:54.0 | It's called the Gold Nuggets at awesome at your job.com and in particular these five |
| 0:58.0 | productivity personality archetypes I think are just huge in terms of bringing some awareness to how are you choosing |
| 1:06.0 | your next task and what trap are you fallen for. |
| 1:10.0 | That awareness has already been huge for me. |
| 1:12.0 | So great stuff and you can see that in summary written format |
| 1:15.1 | with the gold nuggets at all smat your job.com. |
| 1:17.7 | Now here's Laura's story. |
| 1:18.6 | Laura Stack is a noted expert and employee in team productivity. |
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