Laura Stack

Even the best single person can’t succeed alone. Neither can you. Individual productivity is just the beginning of business pro?tability; the real winner is team productivity. While sports teams may have stand-outs who pull the team’s ranking upward — Peyton Manning and Lebron James come to mind — they couldn’t do their jobs if everyone wasn’t in there supporting them to the best of their abilities. When done well, the team wins championships.

Today’s workplaces require people who can “team well.” Yes, you have to use email and communicate and go to meetings. Yes, there will always be someone who works more slowly. Yes, you have to get agreement on some decisions. But a collective effort is much faster than an individual effort, in almost all instances. It takes less time to get things done with a team. This presentation will teach The Four “Keys” to Becoming a F-A-S-T Team:

• FAIRNESS: Proper under the rules; honest; just; straightf
• ACCOUNTABILITY: Responsible to someone or for some action; answerable; within one’s power, control, or
• SYSTEMS-THINKING: One impacts the whole; interrelated linkages and interactions between components; a set of correlated
• TECHNOLOGY: Speci?c methods, materials, and devices used to exchange information; creation and use of technical means; use of knowledge to solve practical

Ours is a non-stop, jet-propelled world. Finding balance for many seems the impossible dream. Not so. Keynote speaker and Productivity Pro Laura Stack shares the powerful top ten common dominators of top producers. Team members and leaders alike love the less-is-more concept. Why? Less stress. More through-the-roof productivity. Less burn out. More balanced lives. Less complaining. More creativity. If you’re ready to empower your team or organization with the kind of lightning-fueled energy and easy-to-implement strategies that will propel you right past the competition in less time with more momentum, Laura’s the speaker for you.

Based on Laura’s bestselling book of the same title, 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.

Leaders are bombarded with strategy. They talk about it. Meet about it. Learn about it. However, here’s the real struggle: execution of those strategies. How do you get team members to adopt New ideas, solutions, and systems? Advance your strategic initiatives and get things done? How do you turn pressure into positive action? How do you leverage time in such a way that you’re able to break new barriers and empower individuals? That’s where Motivational Leadership Speaker and Productivity Pro Laura Stack delivers the showstoppers: real answers to the questions and more. Easy-to-implement execution plans. Put-to-work-today solutions. Mindset-shifters. Team-builders. Using her l-e-a-d Formula, you’ll take your leadership team to the next level and beyond.

The truth is there are times when we ALL feel like overwhelmed, inefficient plate-spinners. The solution? Putting the right tools, strategies, and mindsets in place to turn that experience around (and keep it from coming back.) Enter Motivational Keynote Speaker and Productivity Pro Laura Stack! In this action-packed session, Laura uses her step-by-step Productivity Workflow Formula to teach audiences how to invest and re-tool their valuable time. Put their energy into their highest-yielding tasks. Give themselves permission to ditch and delegate
time-wasters. Focus on execution and deliver unstoppable results. What do you get? More confident, competent,
high-energy, high-efficiency, super-productive contributors and teams…with a bonus: They’re happier. Work better together. Are more creative. Less stressed. The kind of things that make for incredible organizations.

Based on Laura’s book of the same title this is her work/life balance keynote that adds in the element of your personal life. 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 to success; work smarter at work; and balance time across their lives. Perfect for audiences of busy men and women who work hard all day and go home to-the second shift-the job they don’t get paid for. Learn to match time to values while juggling work, kids, chores, volunteering, errands, and household projects. Laura’s ideas will help you improve your productivity at home, get more done than ever before, and have more time to enjoy your life.

Based on Laura’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! Perfect for the pooped. You can know all the productivity tips in the world, but nothing will work if you don’t have the energy to give 100 percent. Laura boosts your energy with physiological strategies (such as diet, exercise, and sleep), behavioral strategies (such as tolerations, 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.

This is Laura’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. 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 toward the accomplishment of organizational goals. Managing the clock isn’t the answer-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 in for guidance. This program teaches you how to coach employees to peak performance; manage meetings; use your admin more effectively; improve process efficiencies; delegate instead of do; 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.

Based on Laura’s fourth business book of the same title this is her program on how high potentials can achieve peak performance in the workplace. The new mantra is “buckle down!” These times are about a return to quality rather than quantity; all of us must learn to be competent—and not just plain, old-fashioned competent, but SuperCompetent®.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 your and your team’s maximum potential and achieve breakthrough results. You’ll get to your productive best by mastering six keys to peak performance:
•  Activity: the value and importance you place on your work
•  Availability: your ability to master your schedule
•  Attention: the capacity to focus intently and concentrate on tasks
•  Accessibility: the ability to organize the inputs and outputs in your life
•  Accountability: the extent to which you take personal responsibility for your actions and outcomes
•  Attitude: your motivation, drive, and proactiveness
SuperCompetency is not about mantras but about mindsets. SuperCompetent will transform how you think. Let Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro®, give you a clear and practical system for achieving Maximum Results in Minimum Time®. YOU Can Be a Productivity Pro®!

This is Laura’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, multi-media, singing, and an audience-participation game show!

This is Laura Stack’s LEADERSHIP EXECUTION keynote that teaches leaders how to create agile organizations by executing real-time strategic priorities. Laura believes a leader’s biggest challenge isn’t creating the strategy—it’s executing the strategy. Today, strategy and execution are part of the same process, because of the speed at which organizations need to change. So if we presume your strategy is right on, how do you get your team to nail it? In this innovative program, Stack discusses how her LEAD formula has helped her clients’ leaders quickly drive strategic initiatives and get great results from their teams She discusses the Four Factors in Successful Execution:

L = Leverage
E = Environment
A = Alignment
D = Drive

Due to competitive pressures, leaders don’t have time to do “strategic planning” as they did in the past, but there is plenty of time to design a culture where your people will tell you how to achieve your priorities. The pressures on an organization to move quickly mirror the pressures individuals face on a personal level, so leaders will create better results if they engage their team members and create high-performing cultures, full of strategic thinkers

You work hard. You know how to make lists and check things off. You really want to be productive. But everyone and everything else keeps ruining your plans! So many things keep us from doing what we know we should be doing. In this funny, high-energy program, Laura Stack, aka The Productivity Pro®, reviews the four main things that suck the productivity right out of you! You’ll discover your biggest productivity sucker and take away some practical tools to defend yourself.