A seminar based on the principles found in Your Best Just Got Better: Work Smarter, Think Bigger, Make More (Wiley, hardcover, 2012). Here's a link, to the table of contents, prologue and Chapter One: http://amzn.to/bestbetter

1. MASTERING WORKPLACE
PERFORMANCE
Jason W. Womack
Jason@WomackCompany.com
805-798-1362

5. Questions /
Comments
Jason@WomackCompany.com

6. Time Management
The Myth ...

19. PRODUCTIVITY
MEANS...
Please list THREE
(3) words to describe
“Productivity” on
Page 1.

20. PRODUCTIVITY
MEANS...
Please list THREE
(3) words to describe
“Productivity” on
Page 1.

22. WHAT DOES
“Better” mean?

26. WHAT DOES
“Better” mean to you?

29. Time Management
The Goal

33. 3 AREAS OF FOCUS
FOR TODAY’S PROGRAM
Maximize your productivity
Be, work and live at your best
Achieve greater and more
rewarding results

34. Please identify the
three words that
most relate to your
goal for attending
this course today.

35. Please identify the
three words that
most relate to your
goal for attending
this course today.

36. Resources See
Quality Hear
Principles Practice
Performance Utilize
Productivity Improve
Opportunities Being
Priorities Managing
Team Taking
Organization Work
Behaviors Live
Systems Have
Improvement Synchronize
Seminar Design
Sustainable Leading
Vision Resulting
Role Coach

37. WORD TO IDENTIFY A
CLASS OF THINGS
NOUN
design
vision
process

38. WORD TO DESCRIBE
AN ACTION
VERB
action
task
delegate

42. Time
1

43. TIME
96
15-minute blocks
- sleep
- commute
- meals
- everything else

46. Time
1
2 Energy

47. ENERGY

48. THIS INCLUDES BOTH
mental AND physical energy

49. THE BRAIN
Functions
intellect
memory
comprehension

50. THE BODY
Composition
water
nutrients
bone

51. Time
1
Focus 3 2 Energy

52. FOCUS
the center of interest or activity
an act of concentrating interest or
activity on something

58. Time
1
Focus 3 2 Energy
4
Ecosystem

59. ECOSYSTEM
Ecosystem: a biological community
of interacting organisms and their
physical environment

63. How it works...
•Ecosystem
•Focus
•Energy
•Time

64. How it works...
•Ecosystem
•Focus
•Energy
•Time

65. How it works...
•Ecosystem
•Focus
•Energy Please turn to Page 6
•Time and write things you
know need your
time, energy or
focus.

66. GO FOR 40 ...
What’s Really Going On?
(Work To Think About)

67. How it works...
• Ecosystem
• Focus
• Energy
• Time

73. How it works...
•Ecosystem
•Focus
•Energy
•Time
“IF” this is is interesting to you, turn to
page 6, and please add:
google alerts

74. •Ecosystem
•Focus
•Energy
•Time

84. OPTIMIZING YOUR TIME
AND FOCUS
Presented by:
Jason W. Womack
805-798-1362
Jason@WomackCompany.com

85. Please take out your
BlackBerry / iPhone ...

86. Open to a NEW email message

87. In the body of that message,
type the word:
cant (just like that)
Press the space bar...

88. What happened?

89. cant became can’t

90. oo = (805) 640-6401
ce = (805) 798-1362
lm = 020 8144 7000
ol = (600 word email about
how to maximize the Microsoft
Outlook Dashboard I write
about)

91. Jason@WomackCompany.com

94. Practice

95. Practice
makes

96. Practice
makes
habit.

97. Comfort doing the same thing
+
Number of Repetitions 1 2 3 4

98. What takes up your time,
energy and focus by mid-
morning most work days?
(Start with the obvious/easy ones!)

100. Page
37

101. What tools, systems,
technology, gear do you
use during the work-day?
(Start with the obvious/easy ones!)

103. Page
110

104. What do you do regularly
to re-invent and re-engage
with your life and work?
(Start with the obvious/easy ones!)

106. Page
171

107. Could
practicing
something
new build a
new habit?

108. If it could,
what habits would
you practice?

109. Our Philosophy of Productivity
Be, work and live
at your 100%
94

111. In order for
you to “be,
work, live”
at your
100%...

112. What will you need
to have done...

113. What will you need
to have done...how
will you need to
have been...

114. 8

115. I am at my best when ...
page 7

116. JASON@WOMACKCOMPANY.COM

119. Set up your
Daily Dashboard...
and review it several times each
day.
http://www.womackcompany.com/odcs

121. Use signatures as templates to
answer frequently asked
questions or provide the same
information to a different group
or person.
Knowledge Base...

123. Please think of one topic/
question you know you type
repeatedly to anyone via e-
mail...

124. Please think of one topic/
question you know you type
repeatedly to anyone via e-
mail...
Directions...
Contact information...
How to...
What are the benefits of...
Where to find the...
etc...

125. Do you have a
signature with just
your contact
information?

126. Do you have a
signature with just
your contact
information?

132. This one “signature” is
1343 words long.
Enough to save me about
_?__ minutes of typing/thinking time.

133. This one “signature” is
1343 words long.
Enough to save me about
_?__ minutes of typing/thinking time.
If I typed 50 words a
minute...
26
minutes!

134. 9

138. www.OutlookDashboard.com

139. www.OutlookDashboard.com

140. www.OutlookDashboard.com

141. www.OutlookDashboard.com

142. www.OutlookDashboard.com

143. www.OutlookDashboard.com

146. CONTROL + SHIFT + M =
A New E-mail Message
(While you’re reviewing your calendar!)

149. Jason@WomackCompany.com

151. For complete directions on
setting up your Outlook
Dashboard…
Please visit:
! www.OutlookDashboard.com
We’ll send the 39-page eBook for free this
week…E-mail to request your own copy!

152. 10

153. Productivity is...
123

154. 14

155. 125

156. Productivity:
“Doing what I said I would do, in
the time that I promised.”
125

157. 126

158. Productivity:
“Doing what I said I would do, in
the time that I promised.”
I.
D.
e.
A.
126

159. 127

160. Productivity:
“Doing what I said I would do, in
the time that I promised.”
I. Identify
D.
e.
A.
127

161. 128

162. Productivity:
“Doing what I said I would do, in
the time that I promised.”
I. Identify
D. Define
e.
A.
128

163. 129

164. Productivity:
“Doing what I said I would do, in
the time that I promised.”
I. Identify
D. Define
e. experiment
A.
129

165. 130

166. Productivity:
“Doing what I said I would do, in
the time that I promised.”
I. Identify
D. Define
e. experiment
A. Assess
130

167. 15

168. 132

169. Create (and maintain, and
review!) agendas for people you
meet or speak with regularly
132

170. 133

171. Remember, all of these tips are
method first, technology second...
133

172. Remember, all of these tips are
method first, technology second...
This one tip can save you between
10-50% of the time you spend in
meetings, whether formal and scheduled
or impromptu “in the hallway.”
133

180. RIGHT-CLICK
Hold and Drag to
e-mail the agenda

183. 16

184. Work to Manage
Answer the question:
When am I finished on this?
140

185. Work to Manage
Using your lists of “think about/talk about” and
things to do, please write down several multi-step
outcomes you are managing
Answer the question:
When am I finished on this?
140

187. 16

188. Work to Do
Answer the question:
Where do I start on this?
143

189. Work to Do
Using your list of “think about/talk about” write
down several next actions you need to DO
as soon as possible
Answer the question:
Where do I start on this?
143

191. Important / Urgent
The “Eisenhower Principle”

192. Important / Urgent
The “Eisenhower Principle”
URGENT + NOT URGENT +
IMPORTANT IMPORTANT
URGENT + NOT URGENT +
NOT IMPORTANT NOT IMPORTANT

194. E
F
F
O
R
T
PAYO F F

196. Preparation
Prevention
Values Clarification
Planning
Relationship Building
True Recreation
Empowerment

197. Preparation
Prevention
Values Clarification
Planning
Relationship Building
True Recreation
Empowerment

198. 3 Kinds of Work We Have
151

199. 3 Kinds of Work We Have
Work we have to think about
151

200. 3 Kinds of Work We Have
Work we have to think about
Work to manage over time
151

201. 3 Kinds of Work We Have
Work we have to think about
Work to manage over time
Work to do sooner than later
151

203. Our specialty...the “-ologies”
What makes for a “productive” day?
153

204. Psychology:
What happens when you’re
thinking about working?
154

205. 155

206. Technology:
Wasn’t “gear” supposed to
make life and work easier???
156

207. 157

208. Sociology:
What happens when you sit
down with other people and
try to get things done?
158

209. 159

210. THANK
YOU

211. Mastering
Workplace Performance
presented by:
Jason W. Womack
Jason@WomackCompany.com