Description
For anyone who's felt valuable time frittered away in checking emails or answering wrong phone numbers, or listening to a coworker giving you a minute-by-minute account of their previous night's date, help is finally here. Your time is, indeed, your own. And this handy guide, written by a leading executive coach, shows you how to retool your brain, reclaim your schedule, become a master of each minute, and make yourself more productive.
Using a method that is intuitive, easy to remember, and simple to use, this book will help you transform how you think, what you focus on, and what you do so that you can begin to create tangible results.
- Includes exercises that help you learn important thinking skills-essential to tackling important projects and attaining all those once elusive goals
- Features highly visual exercises that are quick to complete, allowing you to change your habits and see improvements right away
- Identifies the 20 key time drains that interfere with productivity and happiness
Full of creative, fun, and proven solutions to the common bugaboos of procrastination, feeling overwhelmed, and a general dissatisfaction with results, Get Productive! offers concrete steps toward rethinking how you work and reworking how you think.
About the Author
Dr. Magdalena Bak-Maier is a highly sought after Organisational and Individual Development Specialist, Neuroscientist, Learning Expert, Executive Coach, Trainer and Speaker, with over 10 years experience in the field of consulting, training and developing people with top-tier organisations and highly intelligent and creative professionals including renown scientists, artist and global social entrepreneurs.
Magdalena's productivity training has been used at the London School of Economics, on the Imperial business School MBA Programme, at the Royal College Of Music and at KLM/AirFrance. She has personally trained over 5000 people in professional effectiveness, communication and authentic leadership. She runs her own training and coaching practice including regular workshops and development programmes as well as a bespoke consultancy service.
Magdalena has a BSC from NYU and a PhD in Neuroscience from Caltech. She is a professionally qualified coach and full member of the Association for Coaching (MAC) as well as an accredited NLP practitioner. She is currently working on a series of articles for The Times Higher Education.
Reviews
'It s focus is on changing the state of mind of the reader as to what productivity actually is, how he or she can ensure they achieve something productive at work and then how they can instil this attitude in colleagues (Director, September 2012) Get Productive! helps you to identify practical solutions and implement changes that will make a real difference to your productivity immediately (Start Your Business, October 2014)
Book Information
ISBN 9780857083463
Author Magdalena Bak-Maier
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Capstone Publishing Ltd
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 304g
Dimensions(mm) 216mm * 137mm * 15mm
