The Productivity Headquarters

Overwhelm and Overload Smackdown!

Defeat these twin productivity oppressors and win back your joy, fulfillment, and satisfaction at work.

40-Days Forward: Using Your Strengths to Find Your Focus and Set Vivacious Goals

You've got a secret supply of energy, motivation, and creative umph at your fingertips--your strengths! In this webinar, you'll learn how your character strengths can help you to find your focus. Get on the way to setting vivacious goals that fuel themselves to completion!

Seven Dimensions of Productivity: #7 Happiness

Taking joy in your accomplishments, finding fulfillment and satisfaction in your life and work--those are just part of what it means to enjoy the seventh dimension of productivity: happiness. In this pre-recorded teleclass/webinar, you'll learn about how to cultivate positive emotions as part of productivity. The Productivity Maven introduces exercises and tools to help you enjoy your work and find greater purpose, engagement, and meaning from your day to day.

Seven Dimensions of Productivity: #6 Strategy

Strategy is all about looking forward to the future. Effective goal setting means being able to reflect, looking back to the past to help inform your direction by drawing learning and insights. In this episode, you'll hear about how to formulate a winning strategy by creating goals that you will absolutely love!

Seven Dimensions of Productivity: #5 Results

The Seven Dimensions of Productivity series continues! In this episode, learn about how to do what you set out to do and gain the results you intend.

Seven Dimensions of Productivity: #4 Reliability

Follow through and reliability: How being productive can help you improve relationships, get fit, and worry less

Learning outcomes:
• Utilize a simple review process to improve your follow through
• Manage your time and focus to increase reliability
• Find ways to improve your accountability to yourself and others.

Seven Dimensions of Productivity #3: Organization

Getting organized is the third dimension of the Seven Dimensions of Productivity. In this episode, you'll learn how to harness routine to become better organized as well as become familiar with the six principles of organizing.

By the end of this session, you will

• Be able to explain the value and benefit of routine

• Know the principles of organization and how to utliize them

• How/when/why to create checklists, workflows

Seven Dimensions of Productivity #2: Attention and Focus

 Managing your attention is the second of the Seven Dimensions of Productivity. By the end of this podcast, you'll 

• Be able to list the distinctions between focus and attention

• Learn how to implement skills that improve your ability to get and stay on task

• Discover how to strengthen your ability to pay attention

Seven Dimensions of Productivity #1 Time

Everyone is time’s slave, like it or not. We’re all subject to the same tyranny of minutes, hours, days, and weeks. Understanding how your brain thinks of time will give you new insights into why your spare time gets swallowed up with hardly a trace and you visit more landmarks when you’re on vacation than you do when you’re at home.

Improving focus through mindfulness

 As life comes at us faster and faster and the expectations for instant communication are heightened, distractions rule the roost. As a result, our minds acquire learned-restlessness--a roving sense of scanning the horizon, constantly, never still, and often downright jittery. In this teleclass, we'll take on focus--what it is, how to practice it, and how to recover it.

By the end of this webinar you will be able to:
• Explain what mindfulness is and how it works
• Understand the relationship between mindfulness, focus, and attention
• Learn ways to practice mindfulness anytime, anywhere

Overwhelm and Overload Smackdown!

Defeat these twin productivity oppressors and win back your joy, fulfillment, and satisfaction at work.

40-Days Forward: Using Your Strengths to Find Your Focus and Set Vivacious Goals

You've got a secret supply of energy, motivation, and creative umph at your fingertips--your strengths! In this webinar, you'll learn how your character strengths can help you to find your focus. Get on the way to setting vivacious goals that fuel themselves to completion!

Seven Dimensions of Productivity: #7 Happiness

Taking joy in your accomplishments, finding fulfillment and satisfaction in your life and work--those are just part of what it means to enjoy the seventh dimension of productivity: happiness. In this pre-recorded teleclass/webinar, you'll learn about how to cultivate positive emotions as part of productivity. The Productivity Maven introduces exercises and tools to help you enjoy your work and find greater purpose, engagement, and meaning from your day to day.

Seven Dimensions of Productivity: #6 Strategy

Strategy is all about looking forward to the future. Effective goal setting means being able to reflect, looking back to the past to help inform your direction by drawing learning and insights. In this episode, you'll hear about how to formulate a winning strategy by creating goals that you will absolutely love!

Seven Dimensions of Productivity: #5 Results

The Seven Dimensions of Productivity series continues! In this episode, learn about how to do what you set out to do and gain the results you intend.

Seven Dimensions of Productivity: #4 Reliability

Follow through and reliability: How being productive can help you improve relationships, get fit, and worry less

Learning outcomes:
• Utilize a simple review process to improve your follow through
• Manage your time and focus to increase reliability
• Find ways to improve your accountability to yourself and others.

Productive Leadership from the Inside-Out

 Productivity is the heart of self-leadership. When you master leading yourself, taking you where you want to go, you improve your ability to lead others.

Spark, Drive, Switch: How the New Psychology Will Change the Way You Work

In this episode, I profiled three of the many great new books that are coming out profiling ground-breaking research findings. 

Reliability and Follow Through

Being reliable means knowing that people can depend on you and knowing that you can depend on yourself. In this session of Seven Dimensions of Productivity, you'll learn proven ways to improve your reliabilty.

If you listen to this podcast, you will:

• Learn how to foster simple habits that create motivation without struggle
• Design a support system into your daily routine

Improving focus through mindfulness

 As life comes at us faster and faster and the expectations for instant communication are heightened, distractions rule the roost. As a result, our minds acquire learned-restlessness--a roving sense of scanning the horizon, constantly, never still, and often downright jittery. In this teleclass, we'll take on focus--what it is, how to practice it, and how to recover it.

By the end of this webinar you will be able to:
• Explain what mindfulness is and how it works
• Understand the relationship between mindfulness, focus, and attention
• Learn ways to practice mindfulness anytime, anywhere

Discernment: The Art of Decision-making

When facing a big decision, how do you know what choice to make? In this session of the Seven Dimensions of Productivity, you'll learn about discernment--the process and art of making sound decisions. 

Mindmap for Year-end Reflection, Year-start Planning

As each year draws to close, take time to reflect on what's passed and what's ahead. If you listen to this podcast, you'll

• Look back at the year to gain insight, capture learning, and celebrate achievement
• Look to the year ahead to create a vision, set goals, and start planning