Reviewed by Rama Gaind.
By Donna McGeorge, Wiley, $24.99.
Are you looking to improve effectiveness and side-step snares that can come up in shared output? McGeorge has the knack to enlighten you on how to accomplish more from your day.
You need to take back control of your work life by creating a workflow designed for you. To maximise productivity, you should do your most important work at the right time of day so it gets the resources it deserves.
Donna is passionate about taking steps to ensure that the vast amount of time we spend in our workplace is not only effective, but productive and enjoyable as well.
She is an expert in making work work and helping managers and leaders unlock their potential, as well as those of her team. Donna uses a creative, practical approach. She improves workplace effectiveness while challenging thinking on leadership, productivity and virtual work.
The speaker, author and mentor asks some pertinent questions. Being busy does not mean being productive. Most workers are being asked to take on more responsibilities with less support, advised to simply ‘be innovative.’ However, you only have a ‘finite amount of energy and thinking capacity’ available to you in a day. Most of us are wasting it on things that aren’t contributing to our most important work: the activities that require problem solving, decision making and critical thinking.
In a time of near-constant information overload, this practical handbook helps you focus on getting done what you need to get done and when you are best able to do it. By learning to invest your energy strategically, you can be in the driver’s seat every workday and achieve a level of productivity beyond what you thought possible.
Developed for business professionals, through using evidence, The First 2 Hours teaches you how to design your day, rather than be at the mercy of it.
