762: Reclaiming Your Day to Achieve More while Working Less with Donna McGeorge
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 25 April 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Donna McGeorge shares how you can take back your time and maximize your productivity—all while doing less.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) Why less is often more for productivity
2) The one meeting you should always schedule
3) How to feel more energized throughout the day
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— ABOUT DONNA —
Donna is a passionate productivity coach with modern time management strategies designed to enhance the amount of time we spend in our workplace.
With more than 20 years of experience working with managers and leaders throughout Australia and Asia-Pacific, Donna delivers practical skills, training, workshops, and facilitation to corporations—such as Nissan Motor Company, Jetstar, Medibank Private, and Ford Motor Company—so they learn to manage their people well and produce great performance and results.
As a captivating, upbeat, and engaging resource on time management and productivity, Donna has been featured on The Today Show, on radio interviews across Australia, and has written for publications including The Age, Boss Magazine, Smart Company, B&T Magazine, and HRM.
• Book: The 1 Day Refund: Take Back Time, Spend it Wisely
• Website: DonnaMcGeorge.com
• Website: TheProductivityCoach.com.au
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Book: The Principles of Scientific Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor
• Book: The Game Changer: How to Use the Science of Motivation With the Power of Game Design to Shift Behaviour, Shape Culture and Make Clever Happen by Jason Fox
• Book: Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life by Ozan Varol
• Book: The Stand by Stephen King
• Book: On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft (A Memoir of the Craft) by Stephen King
• Figure: David Allen
• Figure: Francesco Cirillo
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.1 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required |
| 0:08.6 | to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McIdoz. |
| 0:16.0 | Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 762 with Donna McGeorge. |
| 0:24.0 | Donna shares some excellent perspective and tools for how you can take back your time, |
| 0:29.6 | and maximize your productivity all while actually doing less. |
| 0:33.6 | So you'll learn one why less is often more for productivity. |
| 0:36.6 | Two, the one meeting you should always schedule and three, |
| 0:39.6 | how to feel more energized throughout the day. |
| 0:41.6 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the links to bits that we've referenced, |
| 0:45.6 | you can find them over at awesomeatyourjob.com slash EP762. |
| 0:50.6 | And if you happen to be at awesomeatyourjob.com, |
| 0:53.6 | check out some of our goodies like the full text, searchable transcripts, |
| 0:56.6 | every episode tagged by the topic and the competency that we cover, |
| 1:00.6 | the golden nugget email summaries. |
| 1:02.6 | There's a bunch of good stuff at awesomeatyourjob.com. |
| 1:04.6 | Now here's some good stuff about Donna. |
| 1:06.6 | Donna McGeorge is a passionate productivity coach with modern time management strategies designed |
| 1:11.6 | to enhance the amount of time we spend in our workplace. |
| 1:15.6 | Enhance, not increase. |
| 1:17.6 | With more than 20 years of experience working with managers and leaders throughout Australia |
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