Laura Stack shares 111 short tips on improving personal productivity. You'll learn how to save time at work and at home with these logical, easy-to-implement ideas.

21 pages.

What would make you happy? Creating a life in alignment with your values?  Living up to your highest vision of yourself?  So make your imaginings come true!  In this eBook, Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro®, will help you turn the dreams floating around in your head into actionable goals. You’ll learn how to divide your time among the various priorities and goals in your life and achieve equilibrium. You’ll feel like you’re spending your time in ways that are in alignment with your values. You’ll hear techniques to help you through the mindset shifts and behavioral changes you’ll need to make. Once set, your goals will act like a magnet—pulling you towards them.

21 pages.

Professionals admire and often envy those who make presentations with ease and confidence. If you present in business situations where you need to motivate, persuade, and hold the attention of a group, this eBook will provide tested strategies you can learn and practice to improve your skills. You’ll feel reassured that you don’t have to be “a natural.”  You’ll learn specific strategies you can learn and practice to improve your skills. And you’ll find out how to shine in your next presentation.

19 pages.

Successful people don't trade personal satisfaction for professional achievement. They know high performance depends on both. To avoid the peaks and valleys of productivity created by balancing the urgent demands of work and personal life, professionals must be able to balance both without sacrificing either. This e-book includes behavioral strategies and lifestyle tactics to help you to work at a realistic level. Rediscover vision, vitality, and meaning in your life!

45 pages.

You are persistent in completing your high priority tasks without getting sidelined by menial activities?  Do you work hard every day or only when you’re in the mood?  Do you have a set of “rules” for yourself that govern your behavior and activity?  You’ll learn to correct and regulate yourself for the sake of continuous improvement and personal productivity.  You’ll exercise restraint over your own impulses, emotions, and desires.  And you’ll realize that working on the right task doesn’t always mean working on the fun task.

22 pages.

Mentoring has a significant beneficial impact on the life of the protégé.  How can you effectively be this person for employees and help them achieve their highest visions of themselves?  You’ll feel more confident to handle your role as a mentor. You’ll learn behavioral techniques to walk you through an effective mentoring process. And you’ll find out how to be the person that your protégés will someday mention when telling stories about their climb to the top!

20 pages.

Are you wading through email every day?  Would you like to reduce the amount of time spent in your inbox?  Communicating more effectively with your team members and professional contacts will maximize your time and avoid wasting others’ time. Email can be a distraction, but it doesn’t have to be a time waster. When you know how to use email as an effective communication tool, you’ll avoid having your inbox monopolize your day.

22 pages.

Do you plan your life as carefully as you plan your vacations?  Do you manage your time as well as you manage your money?  Do you miss deadlines, stay up late at night, and encounter stress, crisis, and overload?  When you manage your time effectively, you will experience results, recognition, free time, clarity, and focus.  With proper time management, you will feel a sense of accomplishment each day, and you’ll increase your productivity and efficiency at work and home!

19 pages.

Being organized means controlling the paper, the e-mail, the reading material and the
inputs into and out of your office and your life. Organization is your ability to sort,
filter and process all types of information effectively. It’s how tidy your office and your
home look, inside and out. It’s how in-control you look and feel, inside and out. Being
organized will give you more control over your life and your time. You MUST find the
time and the self-control to achieve organization through proper systems.

17 pages.

Do you waste time checking your social media sites every day?  Is Facebook time sinkhole for you?  Social media can be a useful tool or an ‘attractive distraction.’  Learn how to make social media work to add to your daily productivity, rather than kill it. You’ll learn to set proper boundaries, so you don’t waste half your day on social media sites.  You’ll connect with your community in a professional, efficient manner that will enhance your internet presence and boost your productivity.

13 pages.

Is your email your to-do list?  Is it really keeping you organized?  Technology CAN increase your productivity, if you use best practices for email.  This eBook will guide you through the 12 Best Practices for Handling Email so that your inbox becomes your friend.  Learning to control your email is fundamental to increasing your productivity.  These skills will give you the foundation you need to keep your inbox under control.

14 pages.

Would you like to learn how to get decision makers to read your documents? Would you like your materials to be placed at the top of the stack? Now you can! Learn from Laura Stack, the author of several published books, as she offers sage advice for successful business writing. Whether you’re crafting cover letters, resumes, or emails, keep these five key communication principles in mind.

13 pages.

So many things compete for our attention in the workplace—background noise, interruptions, drop-in visitors, and email—it’s often very difficult to concentrate.  This eBook will teach you how to be present, keep your brain sharp, and focus on the task at hand? You’ll find out how to overcome distractions from your environment, other people, and your brain.

20 pages.

Laura Stack flies over 100,000 miles a year as a professional speaker and as the 2011-2012 president of the National Speakers Association. Although not everyone has the natural ability to live out of a suitcase or do business from a laptop, with a little practice, you can learn to love your travel time. In this eBook, you’ll find out how to be at your productive best while traveling. You’ll learn how to take advantage of airplanes, rather than letting them take advantage of you. And you’ll feel ready…and we dare say excited…for your next trip.

11 pages.

The nature of work today can intensify emotional reactions. As you face the pressures of more work, more interaction with coworkers, and more stressful deadlines, you're likely to find yourself in situations where it is critical to identify and control your emotions. Unmanaged stress not only destroys your productivity, but it can also destroy your health. Stress is a known factor in 70 percent of all diseases, so people must learn to boost their energy and reduce tension. This e-book examines the link between your emotions and stress and teaches behavioral techniques to help you productively manage your emotions, prevent out-of-control situations, and reduce your stress. This e-book will help professionals who are pushed to the limit everyday.

41 pages.

My three children started school and have experienced many “firsts” over the last few weeks: new schools, supplies, teachers, classes, friends, clothes, and schedules. This is a universal time of change for all parents of school-age children. And though much has suddenly changed in our children’s lives, much has stayed the same in some: disorganized bedrooms, poor time management, lack of discipline, and stress. As parents, it’s easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of settling our children into the new school year and making sure they’re comfortable that we forget about the ongoing struggles our children endure the rest of the year.

17 pages.

In this ebook, we’re going to be discussing the important components of a Time
Management system. Whatever method works for you – paper, electronic, or a hybrid –
there are still some pieces of everyone’s methods that are common to all. Everyone has
a way of tracking appointments or to-dos. Some people use paper while others use
electronic options. Rather than thinking of it as a good/bad or right/wrong decision, or
that there is one correct method, there are some principles that are foundational to
every Time Management system.

20 pages.

My business mission is to help people become more productive. Why? With
productivity increases, you can get your work done more efficiently, so you can leave
the office earlier and get home to your life. Ultimately, that is why we work and that is
what our lives are all about: love.

22 pages.

Good leaders understand that time management is not about squeezing more into their days; it's about you and your people spending time productively toward the accomplishment of organizational goals. This innovative e-book discusses three key time management principles for leaders: (1) avoiding organizational "speed bumps," (2) eliminating activities that waste your time and the time of your people, and (3) modeling effective time management behavior.

46 pages.

It takes a lot of work and discussion to get a team to function productively and effectively. Tapping a team's creative power can only happen when team members recognize and value each other's contributions and strengths. You’ll realize the impact of your time management style on others. You’ll find out how to relate positively as a team member. And you’ll hear how to increase the circle of trust and understanding among your team members.

25 pages

Moving at the Speed of Life. Does the speed of life leave you feeling tested, bested, toasted, and roasted? Would you like to learn how to leave the office earlier®, with less stress, and more to show for it? Read this innovative, research-based e-book on improving your personal productivity! This is NOT your old-school "time management" material.it offers a multitude of physiological, psychological, behavioral, and environmental productivity strategies. Professionals, managers, and administrative staff will gain scores of new ideas from "The Productivity PRO"® on increasing output without increasing effort and performing at your matchless best!

19 pages.

Time Management is considered a management discipline. However, it’s not typical
management in the sense that you can control time. In other words, you can’t manage
your time so well that you can create a 30-hour day for yourself. It is, therefore, not
classic management, but instead what I like to call self-management. It’s about making
choices around time.

17 pages.

Moving at the Speed of Life. Does the speed of life leave you feeling tested, bested, toasted, and roasted? Would you like to learn how to leave the office earlier®, with less stress, and more to show for it? Read this innovative, research-based e-book on improving your personal productivity! This is NOT your old-school "time management" material.it offers a multitude of physiological, psychological, behavioral, and environmental productivity strategies. Professionals, managers, and administrative staff will gain scores of new ideas from "The Productivity PRO"® on increasing output without increasing effort and performing at your matchless best!

40 pages.

We've become dependent upon computers, email, voicemail, the Internet, Blackberries, PDAs, cell phones, and pagers. These devices connect us to the world of work. Today, you must be technologically savvy. Technology can undoubtedly improve your productivity, but it can make you LESS productive if you're not careful. This e-book shows how to use the latest technologies to your advantage, without letting technology take advantage of you.

32 pages.

Do you get 100 emails every day? Do you feel like you're slowly drowning in a sea of paper? Does the sight of your messy office and overflowing email in-box frustrate you? Then this e-book is for you! You may work hard. But if you're disorganized, every step is a struggle. In this age of downsizing and a do-more-with-less mentality, efficiency is more important than ever before. This e-book will help professionals, managers, and administrative staff stay on top of things. You will gain scores of new tips and techniques for bringing order into your life, personally and professionally!

43 pages.

How to Improve Employee Performance. Burning the midnight oil is harmful to employees and employers. But deadlines loom, e-mail piles up, and your star employee has put in another thirteen-hour day. How can HR professionals find a solution where key people produce at high levels but don't leave the organization from overwork and stress? This e-book discusses why productivity initiatives are important in the context of helping employees leave the office on time, lead a more balanced life, and increase job satisfaction.

39 pages.

This Productivity Pro® TIP series focuses on improving your personal
productivity by organizing three critical areas: Time, Information, and People (TIP).
This series is written for anyone responsible for improving personal productivity—in
yourself or others. Whether you’re a corporate worker, a small business owner, a
government employee, or a stay-at-home parent, this series will help you improve your
productivity with specific, actionable, practical TIPs for success.

52 pages.

Do you find yourself continually racing against time? Do you feel that you have so much to do that it's difficult to get anything done? Managing time effectively is the key to managing your individual performance. Time management is much more complicated than making a list and checking things off. Learn how to set priorities and focus on what's truly important, plan and schedule your day, and organize your calendar and tasks.

47 pages.