One of the top questions I’m asked by inherently
organized individuals is how to prevent the
disorganization of OTHERS from making them
productive.
In this special 8 minute video, I answer this question
in great depth.
You’ll learn how to:
Clearly communicate to others how you can help each other be more productive
Minimize the sporadic “Quick Questions” that are killing your day
Be polite, even when telling others you can’t field their interruption at this moment
P.S. After you watch the video I’d like you to share
your experiences. How are your co-workers or employees
making you unproductive? What have you tried that’s
worked so far?
P.S. After you watch the video I’d like you to share
your experiences. How are your co-workers or employees
making you unproductive? What have you tried that’s
worked so far?
I found a video in my archives that I had recorded but
hadn’t posted it up yet. I think you’ll enjoy this.
I was speaking on location at beautiful Santa Clara
University, when an audience member from a major
corporation asked me: “I have a boss in Hong Kong who
has this expectation that I always respond immediately
to her requests. What do I do?”
She asked the question because I was preaching the
importance of moving from a Culture of Now (which
perpetuates switchtasking)to a Culture of WHEN.
Do you have a demanding boss like this? (Or are YOU the
demanding boss?) How do you handle the situation?
Watch this video for some quick, invaluable tips.
Switchtask no more!
Dave Crenshaw
Author, The Myth of Multitasking & Invaluable (available May 2010)
President, Invaluable Inc.
P.S. After you watch the video I’d like you to share
your experience. Have you tried the tips I’m
suggesting? Are you too scared to try it? Why?
P.P.S. Expect more videos like this from me this year.
I’m committed in 2010 to just give away a lot more
content. Less selling, more giving. Watch for it.
Spending thousands of dollars on technology, but getting pennies worth of results?
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:
Over seven hours of video of episodes of me coaching a corporate team
A searchable database of a growing repository of direct answers to every single productivity question in the world.
Access to ask your questions via email to my Invaluable coaches (a live person) at any time you’d like.
In short, it’s just like having me come into your office, at any time you’d like, just as you see with Keith
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 myTwo 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.
Ever wish your meetings lasted half as long as the normally do?
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
PLEASE COMMENT BELOW:
How long is an average meeting for you? Do you find them to be productive, or more of a waste of time?
Is your workplace a “Culture of Now” or a “Culture of When?”
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.
Learn How to Stop Putting Out Fires and Take Control of Interruptions
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.
PLEASE COMMENT BELOW:
Are you a workplace firefighter? Do you know someone who is? Tell me your story!
Buried under a pile of email with no end in sight? This one’s for you…
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.
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 you’ll meet Keith, an owner-partner and manager in an insurance agency. He told me he has so much to do that “his head just spins.” He also mentioned that he felt a bit “ADD.” Sound familiar?
His told me his biggest challenge was prioritizing his tasks, but as we drove a little deeper, we discovered a deeper cause for his feeling of inefficiency.
PLEASE COMMENT BELOW:
Know someone who needs to learn how to Power Delete? Are you that person? Tell me about it by commenting on the blog page.
I recorded this video in San Francisco while visiting the corporate offices of my publisher, Jossey-Bass. I talked my editor into working the camera for a quick message for my list.
In this free coaching video, I’ll teach you a about very important Switchbuster.
Some of you who are new to my work are wondering, “Switchbuster? What is he talking about?”
Switchbusters are little tricks and systems you can put into your day to minimize the switches that are interrupting you.
This free coaching video will teach you how to minimize what I call the “Dreaded Double Q”
The Quick Question!
How many times per day do you hear:
“Hey, Dave, excuse me, I’ve got just a quick question…”
On the video blog post I show you how to dramatically reduce the Dreaded Double Q.
For discussion:
How many times per day do you think you hear the Dreaded Double Q?
I was speaking with an executive coaching client fairly recently and he asked me about what I thought about the 4 hour workweek, and I am going to give you my candid response to that. What I told him that I think there are some great, great principles in the 4 hour workweek. I think it’s a catchy title, it got a lot of attention.
The problem is most people aren’t even working a 40 hour workweek! How many people do you know that are working a 40 hour workweek regularly? (And I include your work week time, travel to and from work and time spent thinking about work at home.) How many people do you know that are working in that kind of a schedule?
In my experience in going out and speaking to companies worldwide and promoting my book and talking to people most people are working long…long hours especially when they include the time they are spending thinking about work at home, they are just they are trapped in a never ending cycle. They are working 50…60…70 hours a week.
My suggestion is start with a 40 hour work week. That is the big part of what I do with the Get Time program, because I am helping people make strategic decisions about how much time they are going to spend in a week working.
If you are not taking control of your calendar, if you are letting your week control you, then you are not living the 40 hour workweek. If you make a commitment to yourself that you are going to end work at 5 o’clock or 6 o’clock everyday, but you are finding that there is another task, another task and another task and—well, it just kind of goes on and on—then you are fooling yourself. And starting with something like the 4 hour workweek and out sourcing your work is just the wrong place to begin.
You need to start with yourself with your personal systems. Build a strategy to take control of where you are spending your time and what your most valuable activities are. You need to focus on your Most Valuable Activities. You can only do that if you begin to limit the amount of time that you are working and really become realistic with yourself about the truth of time, how much time there is in a day.
That is why I put together the Get Time Boot Camp. It helps people manage their time and how much time they want to work. It helps to take control of their schedule and take control of the information that is taking…that is flowing through their day. That is what I can help you do. I can help you get the 40 hour workweek or even the 30 hour workweek. I can help you get to that point where you are actually in control of what is going on in your week, instead of letting your week control you.
