Work Smart

Black & White on White paper 5.5" x 8.5" (13.97 x 21.59 cm) 246 pages In today's workforce, most people feel obligated to work hard. Working hard is assumed to be correlated with delivering results, meeting deadlines, and overcoming obstacles. But is it really? While working hard is seen by many as an obligation, working smart (the more effective and sustainable driver of success) remains completely optional and up to you. I mean, when was the last time someone at work sat you down to brainstorm about making your job easier and more enjoyable or offered up ideas to help you work less? But there is a proven formula for working smart that absolutely accelerates your professional success. This book is for ambitious professionals who want to learn to work smarter (not harder) to progress in their careers. The book exposes common beliefs, habits, and behaviours that erode your work performance, thus forcing you to work harder. The WORK SMART formula covers the nine areas that individuals must get right in order to excel and fully enjoy their professional lives. When properly applied, this formula unleashes your ambition and motivation and taps into incremental determination and passion for your work-everything you need to take your performance to the next level but with much less effort. I spent many of my 20 years in advancing leadership roles in corporate America working hard to get ahead. But my best years were never my hardest. Despite being exposed to the best professional development and coaching programs on the market, I noticed that I was often mentored and persuaded to apply an effort- and disciplined-based approach that included more hours, more stress, and more fatigue. True, some of these techniques did enable my ascension to the leadership ranks, but these patterns were never sustainable. Over time, my performance and satisfaction eroded when I relied on working way too hard. What I discovered first hand is that much of the advice I received was extremely ineffective at enabling my best work in a sustainable way. Later, as I transitioned to my current career as an executive coach for top leaders, I noticed my clients repeating these same errors, largely because of these misguided historic practices. By now, hundreds of corporate executives, professionals, and entrepreneurs have already benefited from the WORK SMART approach to their work. Steven, a managing director at a leading management consulting company said, "The tools provided in this book are so practical, applicable, and relevant that I apply them every day." This book will provide you with solutions and approaches that will activate your career and fulfil your desire for meaningful and enjoyable work. I promise that if you apply these principles, you will easily achieve your goals and be flooded with new opportunities beyond your wildest dreams. Now, I know you are busy, but don't miss out on the opportunity to significantly improve your relationship with your work. Investing in enjoying your work is the best gift you can give yourself. The impact of this framework is trans-formative-you will not regret it, and everyone will notice and want to know your secret. The WORK SMART formula has proven to have positive, long-lasting results for my clients. All you have to do to tune your capabilities is to read this book. Each chapter will give you new insights as you master your new work habits. Take action right now, and claim your best work! This book provides your road map to transform you and your organisation into the thriving leader and environment that will yield unprecedented results and amazing opportunities.

Organise your way to renewed focus and calm Smart Work is the busy professional's guide to getting organised in the digital workplace. Are you drowning in constant emails, phone calls, paperwork, interruptions and meeting actions? This book throws you a lifeline by showing you how to take advantage of your digital tools to reprioritise, refocus and get back to doing the important work. You may already have the latest technology, but if you're still swamped, you're not using it to your advantage. This useful guide shows you how to leverage the technology you have to centralise your work into one integrated tool. You'll develop a simple and sustainable productivity system to organise your actions, manage your inputs and achieve your outcomes. The highly visual nature of the book helps you quickly grasp the ideas you need most. Like most professionals, you want to do great work and achieve great things. But when half your day is spent on emails, phone calls and 'extra' duties, you rarely get a chance to shine. This book changes that. Get back in control so you can start performing like a star. Get organised, focused and proactive Conquer the daily incoming deluge Spend more time on important work Leverage your desktop and mobile technology When work is coming at you from every direction, it's difficult to focus and prioritise. Things get lost in the shuffle. But when you channel everything into a single stream, you settle into a flow and get more accomplished in less time. Smart Work is your guide to finding your flow— and the bottom of your inbox.

From one of the top HR specialists in the world comes this much-needed guide to help people maximize productivity and increase revenue. Whether it’s in corporate America or in our own living rooms, people are wasting time. From the minute we wake up and check our Facebook page or emails—before we even crawl out of bed—to late at night when we stay up longer than we should, watching our favorite show. There’s a precise moment that falls between working enough hours to be productive and working too many hours, yielding a diminishing marginal return. The difference between the person able to master this and most Americans that fail miserably at it is quality of life! If one continues to work past this moment, a negative return will ensue, and that negative return produces guilt. It lowers the amount of time for recreational activities and spending time with family. We’ve siloed productivity to our work life, however; the impact on our personal life is often loss. An alarming 39% of workers in high-tech companies believe they are depressed, as reported by PC Magazine in December 2018. 72% of people who have daily stress and anxiety say it interferes with their lives—anxiety and stress alone have reduced productivity by 56%. More than 80% of people have experienced some form of anxiety, stress, or depression in the workplace. People are spending more time at work than at home or with their loved ones; or, if they are at home, they are working. They are always “on.” As a result of this disparity, people are not fully living their lives. And the “work-life balance” marketed by some HR consulting firms and employers simply does not work. It’s all work and no life! Studies have also proven that when people are unhappy in their personal lives or careers, their productivity goes down and everything and everyone around them suffers. This causes a domino effect, which trickles into every area of their lives. Previous generations used to say, “Work harder,” but we’ve now learned we must “work smarter.” Polak has practiced and tested his methods in hundreds of opportunities and has been paid millions by the largest corporations in the world to share these tools. He feels that every individual and business should have these tools, and will share them with us here.

You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and thrown in a blender. The blades start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do? If you want to work at Google, or any of America's best companies, you need to have an answer to this and other puzzling questions. Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? guides readers through the surprising solutions to dozens of the most challenging interview questions. The book covers the importance of creative thinking, ways to get a leg up on the competition, what your Facebook page says about you, and much more. Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? is a must-read for anyone who wants to succeed in today's job market.

From executive skills experts Peg Dawson and Richard Guare, this large-format academic planner is specially designed for students in grades 6-12. It provides a system for keeping track of assignments and due dates while developing the crucial executive skills needed to succeed in school and beyond. Students are guided to build a daily study plan, manage their time, set short- and long-term goals, study for tests, and record their successes. They also get tools for evaluating their own executive skills in order to target their weaknesses and capitalize on strengths.

Person A works at a rather low job position at a company and works day and night alike to impress the higher ups and build a reputation, yet their hard work seems to yield little reward. Person B, on the other hand, has built an empire for themselves and their business and is still left with ample time and energy to give to their family and relax. Despite putting in all of their efforts, the poor keep getting poorer while the rich get richer without putting in as much hard work. Why is that?The secret behind this seemingly unfair solution lies in how you define the word success. Does success mean putting in all the energy you have towards your goals and expecting to get a reward in return? Or is success defined by how efficiently you can achieve what you wish to without having to huff and puff and tire yourself out as you reach the finish line?Those who have already made it to the top, they know that hard work doesn't get you what you want- smart work does. Work Smart Not Hard delves further into this topic and explores how you can turn your hard work into smart work and see immediate results.

In his classic book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni laid out a groundbreaking approach for tackling the perilous group behaviors that destroy teamwork. Here he turns his focus to the individual, revealing the three indispensable virtues of an ideal team player. In The Ideal Team Player, Lencioni tells the story of Jeff Shanley, a leader desperate to save his uncle’s company by restoring its cultural commitment to teamwork. Jeff must crack the code on the virtues that real team players possess, and then build a culture of hiring and development around those virtues. Beyond the fable, Lencioni presents a practical framework and actionable tools for identifying, hiring, and developing ideal team players. Whether you’re a leader trying to create a culture around teamwork, a staffing professional looking to hire real team players, or a team player wanting to improve yourself, this book will prove to be as useful as it is compelling.

Most people have never been taught how to work. We are committed to our job and want to be good at what we do. We are neither lazy nor unwilling. But we do not always work effectively - we work hard but not always smart. To increase performance many people believe they need to do more. We spend less time with our loved ones, neglect our health and put our passions and hobbies on the back burner. And we end up frustrated, out of control and stressed. Work Smarter: Live Better will transform your life - learn simple and practical tools to be in control at work, learn how to gain an extra two hours per day, and learn how to make room for what is important to you! This journey will challenge your way of thinking about work. You will learn how to work smarter and more importantly, live better.