Laura Stack Speaking Topics

• You Can Be a Productivity Pro

  This is Laura Stack's flagship keynote that combines key concepts from her multiple books and 18 years of experience into a comprehensive 45• to 75-minute presentation. Time management, prioritization, scheduling, concentration, organization, email, workflow, processing, and systems are all covered to help your attendees achieve maximum results in minimum time. Your participants will gain scores of new ideas from "The Productivity Pro" on increasing output without increasing effort and performing at their matchless best! This interactive, entertaining, high-energy program involves multiple segments customized to your group, multimedia, singing, and an audience-participation game show!

• SuperCompetent: The Six Keys to Perform at Your Productive Best

  Based on Laura Stack's fourth business book of the same title, this is her program on how individuals with high potential can achieve peak performance in the workplace.

  In this competitive economy, just being able to do your job is no longer enough. Competence is expected: you've got to be SuperCompetent to get an edge. Whether you're an employee, an entrepreneur, a team leader, or all of the above, "SuperCompetent" will give you proven methods to reach yours and your team's maximum potential and achieve breakthrough results.

Get More Work from Fewer People: Without Making Them Hate You or Quit

This is Laura Stack's leadership keynote, suited for professionals who are responsible for improving the productivity of direct reports or teams and have to get more done with fewer people. This presentation is perfect for leadership development programs and executive retreats.

Good leaders understand that time management is not about squeezing more into the day: it's about you and your people spending time productively to accomplish your organization's goals. Managing the clock isn't the answer to your problems—teaching employees to manage themselves is. If a mountain of deadlines and a staff that surfs the Internet for pleasure is keeping you awake at night, bring Laura Stack in for guidance. This program teaches you how to coach employees to peak performance, manage meetings, use your administrative team more effectively, improve process efficiencies, delegate instead of doing everything yourself, maintain an "open door" policy while guarding against "drop in" visitors, create tracking and reminder systems, use Outlook to delegate and track assigned tasks, craft communication protocols governing the use of technology, avoid "speed bumps" in employees' paths, eliminate activities that waste time, and model effective personal productivity behavior.

The Exhaustion Cure: Up Your Energy from Low to Go in 21 Days

Based on Laura Stack's book of the same title, this is her energy speech on how to be productive when you can't pick yourself up off the couch. Lack of energy is a common complaint at work and home, and many people sleepwalk through the day, fuzzyheaded and lethargic.

Nothing sounds more attractive than putting your head down on your desk for a quick nap. How can you possibly begin that big project requiring high levels of creativity and concentration? If the mere thought of having more energy leaves you totally exhausted, you need this program! You may know all the productivity tips in the world, but nothing will work if you don't have the energy to give 100 percent. Stack boosts your energy with physiological strategies (such as diet, exercise, and sleep), behavioral strategies (such as tolerance, relaxation, and pacing), and environmental strategies (such as lighting, noise, and clutter). Discover the energy bandits that sap your energy every day and learn to fight back with energy boosters.

Find More Time: How to Get Things Done & Organize Your Life

Based on Laura Stack's book of the same title, this is her work/life balance keynote, which is perfect for groups that want to take a more holistic approach to productivity in life, not simply work.

Successful people don't want to trade personal satisfaction for professional achievement: they know high performance depends on both. Professionals must be able to balance work and family without sacrificing either. This encouraging, lively, results-oriented keynote offers key principles and techniques to help professionals eliminate obstacles in the way of success, work more efficiently at work, and balance time across their lives. Learn to match time to values while juggling work, kids, chores, volunteering, errands, and household projects. Stack's ideas will help you improve your productivity at home, get more done than ever before, and have more time to enjoy your life.

Leave the Office Earlier??: How to Get More Done in Less Time... and Feel Great About It

Based on Laura's bestselling book of the same title (Broadway Books, 2004), this is her flagship time management keynote on how to be more productive at work, so you can achieve the same results in less time and leave the office earlier®. In this high-energy, hysterical presentation, Laura shows you how to keep technology from controlling your time; stay focused and concentrate; communicate with your team and boss to improve personal productivity; plug productivity leaks in your day; build consistent personal routines; eliminate annoying time wasters; and improve your personal efficiency. Attendees leave the program laughing and saying, "Oh my goodness, she was looking over my shoulder! Everything she modeled I'm doing!" The ideas in this innovative and thought-provoking program will allow you to reduce the number of hours you work each week without compromising output.