893: How to Help Your Team Beat Distraction and Unleash Their Productivity with Maura Thomas

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How to be Awesome at Your Job

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🗓️ 24 August 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Maura Thomas shows you how to create a distraction-free work environment to make time for the tasks that matter most.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The underlying cause of derailed productivity.

2) How multitasking hurts your productivity and attention.

3) The two questions that will help you eliminate distractions.

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— ABOUT MAURA —

Maura Nevel Thomas is an award-winning international speaker and trainer on individual and corporate productivity and work-life balance, and the most widely-cited authority on attention management. Her proprietary Empowered Productivity™ System has been embraced by the likes of NASA, Dyson, and Google. She is a TEDx Speaker, founder of Regain Your Time, author of six bestselling books, and was named a Top Leadership Speaker in Inc. Magazine.

Maura is frequently featured in major business outlets including Business Insider, Fast Company, and Washington Post, and she’s also a regular contributor to both Forbes and the Harvard Business Review, with articles there viewed over a million times.

• Book: Attention Management: How to Create Success and Gain Productivity ― Every Day (Empowered Productivity, 1)

• Book: Everyone Wants to Work Here: Attract the Best Talent, Energize Your Team, and Be the Leader in Your Market (Empowered Productivity)

• Forbes article: "Why Leaders Should Want Their Employees To Quiet Quit"

• Website: MauraThomas.com

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• Book: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill

• Book: Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond by Chris Crowley and Henry Lodge

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Transcript

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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
0:08.5	to flourish at work.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.
0:14.1	With your host, Pete Makaitas.
0:16.1	Hello and welcome to episode 893 with Mara Thomas.
0:22.8	Mara is back again.
0:24.4	She's got more wisdom on how to upgrade your focus, beat distraction, unleash productivity,
0:29.9	not only within yourself, but within your whole team as well.
0:33.4	So you'll learn, one, the underlying cause of derailed productivity, two, how multitasking
0:38.5	hurts your productivity and attention, and three, the two questions that help eliminate
0:43.2	distractions.
0:44.2	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that
0:47.1	we've referenced here, visit us over at awesome at your job.com.
0:51.0	Slash EP893.
0:52.8	Now, here's a bit about Mara.
0:55.1	Mara Neville Thomas is an award-winning international speaker and trainer on individual
0:58.7	and corporate productivity and work-life balance.
1:01.1	And the most widely cited authority on attention management.
1:04.0	Her proprietary empowered productivity system has been embraced by the likes of NASA,
1:08.2	Dyson, and Google.
1:09.8	She's a TEDx speaker, founder of Regan Your Time, author of Six Best Selling Books, and
	...

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