Mike St. Pierre gave this presentation at NCEA on April 23, 2014. In this presentation, he provides an overview of the sources of stress than hinder productivity, an explanation of GTD and the 7 simple steps you can take today to leverage your own productive leadership.

1. P R O D U C T I V E L E A D E R S H I P
M I K E S T. P I E R R E
7 Ways to Get More Done in Less Time

2. A B O U T M E
• H U S B A N D
• D A D
• P R E S I D E N T, M O R R I S
C AT H O L I C H . S .
• B L O G G E R
W W W. S P E A K D I G I TA L . O R G

4. O B J E C T I V E S
• Define productive leadership
• Stress as an tension to be
managed, not solved
• How to achieve a “less is
more” approach
• Ideal week
• GTD (Getting Things Done)
• What can you do TODAY?

5. Productive people cultivate small advantages.

10. N O W T H AT ’ S
P R O D U C T I V E !

11. S O U R C E S O F S T R E S S
• Employees
• Students in crisis
• “Tough parents”
• Budget
• Enrollment
• Diocese
• Family

13. S E C O N D A RY S C H O O L L E A D E R
“Identify your stress and you can leverage
your leadership”

14. In everything, love
simplicity.
Saint Francis de Sales

15. S T R E S S I S R E A L …
I T ’ S WA I T I N G F O R Y O U

16. What if you
could pin-point
the sources of
stress?

18. H O M E N O I S E

19. A N T H O N Y P. G R A E S C H , C O - A U T H O R ,
"It's difficult to find time to sort,
organize and manage these
possessions… Thus, our excess
becomes a visible sign of
unaccomplished work that
constantly challenges our deeply
ingrained notions of tidy homes
and elicits substantial stress."

20. O F F I C E N O I S E

23. C O M P U T E R N O I S E

25. B R U C E L E E
“It is not a daily increase, but a
daily decrease. Hack away at
the inessentials.”

26. S T. A U G U S T I N E
“Peace is the
tranquility of
order.”

28. What if less really is more?

29. M E I S T E R E C K H A R T
"God is not found in the soul by
adding anything but by a process
of subtraction."

30. Y O U R
S C H E D U L E
• Meetings
• Interruptions
• Crisis events
• Needy people
• Fatigue

31. PAT R I C K L E N C I O N I
Adding up all of the time that these meetings require
amounts to approximately twenty percent of a
leader's time.
!
If you think about it, a leader who hates meetings is a
lot like a symphony conductor who hates concerts.
Meetings are what leaders do, and the solution to bad
meetings is not the elimination of them, but rather the
transformation of them.

32. I N T E R R U P T I O N S
• Be interruptible (Jesus certainly
was!)
• Use 6:00am-7:00am
• Use 3:30pm-5:30pm
• Use an occasional Saturday

33. S T U D E N T S I N
C R I S I S
• Delegate anxiety
• Leverage your
team
• Who is the point
person?
• Scheduled follow
up?

34. M I C H A E L H YAT T
“Surround yourself with enough positive
people so you can keep your energy level
up. And, you want to have this same kind
of effect on others. Sometimes, you just
have to tell people the truth. Not only for
your sake, but for theirs.

35. FAT I G U E
• The hidden enemy
• Weakens our will
• Isolates us
• Promotes bad behaviors
• Can hinder the Kingdom
of God

36. P R O D U C T I V E
L E A D E R S H I P D E F I N E D
• Leadership practiced for God,
for others, out of respect for the
gifts God has given you.
• It is generative.
• It is inspiring.
• It produces results.

37. A S M A L L E D G E C A N
P R O D U C E B I G R E S U LT S

39. G T D / G E T T I N G
T H I N G S D O N E
• Methodology
• Tool-agnostic
• Simple strategies

40. step 1: write it all down
step 2: use your inbox
step 3: become a list ninja
step 4: match tasks to energy
step 5: review 1x per week

41. Result = mind like water

42. 7 WAY S T O G E T M O R E D O N E I N
L E S S T I M E
• Plan your week.
• Batch your email.
• Match energy to tasks.
• Use your inboxes (like religion).
• Use a digital task manager.
• Try GTD.
• Write everything down.

43. T H A N K Y O U
M I K E S T. P I E R R E
@ T H E D A I LY S A I N T
W W W. S P E A K D I G I TA L . O R G
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