A colleague of mine, Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D, asked me to put together a list of top 10 productivity tips on how to move from a “Culture of Now” to a “Culture of When.”
A “Culture of Now” says that everything needs to be done right now, it needs to have an immediate response. The “Culture of Now” is terribly unproductive.
I’ve been so busy this with with my new National Association of Productivity Coaches that I needed to pull a “previously unleased” video from the archives.
So, it’s an oldie-but-a-goodie. (You’ll be able to tell from the fall colors in the background!) I actually recorded this right after a workshop session with the worldwide customer service executives from Novell. They were a very fun and knowledgeable group!
In this quick video you’ll get the answer I gave to them about one of their biggest questions.
P.S. Please comment: what times of the day have YOU established for checking your email? Does this work for you?
Last week I was invited by Greg Habstritt to speak in Las Vegas to his VIP clients. He told me they were going on the Zappos tour in the morning, so I made sure I arrived early so I could go with them. Not only was the tour amazing, but Tony Hsieh responded to Greg’s request and spent about 1 hour just responding to our questions.
I filmed a bunch of clips from the Tour so you could get a taste of the experience, then added my own insights at the end.
After the tour ZapposInsights.com approached me for an interview interviewed me for a special piece they’re going to do on The Myth of Multitasking. If you’re a ZapposInsights member, watch for that in a couple of weeks,
This is a bit more of a “fancy” video then the usually fare that I offer. I hope you enjoy!
Everyone is Royalty at Zappos -- Even Dave
P.S. Discussion question for this week: how can Zappos employees still be productive when they switch desks at random occasionally? I have my theory, but I’d like to hear yours. Please comment on the blog!
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/12/23/cashmore.digital.distraction/
Pete Cashmore founder and CEO of Mashable wrote a special article for CNN.com about how we are headed for ever-increasing distraction.
Even more interesting than the article, however, are the comments from the users on the site. One user says:
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the company i work for give you an “allowance” giving you 60mins of time on the internet in 10min sessions. This makes it good to go on these sites whenever you wish, but not when the company suits it. as well as this we have a “chill-out” room that we can browse the whole internet.
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This bonus episode is an actual excerpt from the Boot Camp portion of my Two Day Productivity Miracle.
In the Boot Camp I walk a management team at a manufacturing company through the entire process of creating their Personal Systems. From start to finish, nothing is left out. The whole Boot Camp is a logical progression of building personal systems, from A to Z, with videos, worksheets, and even personalized accountability from an Invaluable Coach.
This is only an 8 minute episode from over 7 hours of video coaching content contained in the Two Day Productivity Miracle!
In this episode, I teach Tiffany how to set up a very simple and quick filing system to take care of the “miscellaneous” files that grace her inbox daily. Many people make their filing system much more complex than it needs to be. I show Tiffany how to set hers up in just a few minutes!
Each episode within the Two Day Productivity Miracle is designed to build upon the last, culminating in giving you absolute mastery of your workday–permanently.
With my Two Day Productivity Miracle, I show you absolutely everything you need and coach you through the whole process so you can:
To get absolutely everything in my Get Time coaching program, and to learn more about if it my Two Day Productivity Miracle is a fit for you, visit:
YOUR NEXT STEP: Click here now to get the Two Day Productivity Miracle, and take complete control of your workday FOREVER!
You first met Keith in the Power Delete! Candid Productivity episode. He talked me into to answering another question.
Consider this a Bonus episode, with more great content.
Keith called his current appointment scheduling system “ghetto.” I agreed!
So I gave him a few options for not only coordinating appointments with his assistant, but also improving his data synchronization. These are surprisingly common issues.
My guess is that if you’re like the majority of the people I coach, speak to, or who read my books, you’re misusing the technology available to you! Most people don’t need a new gadget or tool or planner or PDA. What they need is professional productivity coaching to learn how to properly use the tools they already have!
The bad news: There is no way that I could possibly answer all your questions in the brief time I have for these episodes.
The good news: My Two Day Productivity Miracle covers absolutely everything you need to get focused, get organized, and get time. It includes:
Even though companies pay me up to $10,000 per day to train them personally, I can offer, for a limited window of opportunity, instant access to my Two Day Productivity Miracle for under $300!
Clay Johnson is a business owner and very successful entrepreneur. Despite his successes, he always felt that he was ultimately limited by his inability to handle interruptions. In this video, learn how he was able to finally control the interruptions to increase his success level.
Pay close attention to the comparison he makes between my Get Time coaching and other coaching programs. How many times have you attended a seminar, read a book, or listened to an audio course only to find the results drop off after a few weeks?
The great majority of our clients say that same thing that Clay says. The results from my Two Day Productivity Miracle will stick with you in the long run, longer than any other program in the world!
P.S. Sometimes you’ll see a testimonial about some amazing results in a training program, and then at the bottom, in little tiny letters you’ll see the phrase:
“Results not typical.” Huh? Then why tell us about the results?
You’ll NEVER, ever see that disclaimer with my case studies. The results you’ll see from Clay’s video ARE typical.
THESE results are actually very, very USUAL.
P.P.S. In fact it’s very UNUSUAL when someone who completes my Get Time training doesn’t gain tremendous amounts of time, improve focus dramatically, and become more organized than they have been for years!
Its so unusual that I offer a triple guarantee on my Two Day Productivity Miracle.
Learn more about my Two Day Productivity Miracle by CLICKING here.
Welcome to the next video in my new Candid Productivity Video Series!
These are the same kinds of in-depth answers my Invaluable Coaches and I provide in my Two Day Productivity Miracle.
Meet Skeeter, both a principle partner and director of sales for an online debt reduction company. Skeeter coordinates a lot of schedules and oversees the success of many sales reps.
Because of that, he sits in a lot of meetings. Skeeter is, well, a “meeter.” The meetings are supposed to help his people be more efficient, yet they end up wasting a lot of time.
Do you experience that at all in your workplace? In this episode I show him just two principles from my Two Day Productivity Miracle to make his meetings truly productive.
He also had another problem that I can relate with: office disorganization (it doesn’t look like it when you see the video, but he explains why it looks like he “cheated” before I came). I give him a simple principle to help him wrangle his cantankerous workspace!
P.S. Have you checked out my Two Day Productivity Miracle yet? It covers these principles I discussed with Skeeter in great depth. More important, it helps you become conditioned for permanent productivity! After you watch the video, learn how to condition yourself for workday mastery at: http://www.TimeBootCamp.com
Chris is the star of this episode. As an accounts manager for a busy health food company, he deals with a barrage of calls, emails and orders daily.
He felt the need to respond to them all NOW, since not only does his company pride itself on fast service, but his job description really requires him to be readily available to the needs of customers.
The problem is that Chris was stuck in a Culture of Now. I showed him just a couple of the tactics from my Two Day Productivity Miracle that helped him deal with everything on his plate, but still transition to a much more healthy Culture of When.
Welcome to the first video in my new Candid Productivity Video Series!
Get the same answers I provide to my top-paying clients: unrehearsed, uncut, and unedited.
In this video you’re going to see the candid answers I provide when I ask people–just like you–a simple question:
“What is the biggest productivity challenge to your workday?”
In this episode, meet Curtis, a world-renowned programmer who knows he fights fires more than he should. I give him two concrete steps to minimize is firefighting ways.
