30+ Smarter Ways to Work

Around the world, teams are challenging old out of date work methods “other people’s thinking” as Steve Jobs called it, and replacing
this thinking with twenty-first-century smarter work methods. This working guide covers; how to Post-it reengineer, scrum meetings, Kanban boards, lean management techniques, and Toyota’s 14 management principles. This guide also explores some of the management lessons I have gathered on my journey to writing The Leading-Edge Manager’s Guide to Success.

This unique implementation working guide covers some of the techniques you can replicate that will make work more fun and more rewarding. The working guide contains 30 pages designed to help readers to implement quick wins that will save their team time.  The working guide comes with some electronic media, eg: templates, and checklists to assist in a swift implementation. I have spent around US$20,000 researching, writing and testing this working guide. I guarantee, if you purchase, read, and act you will save many times the cost of this guide.

This working guide gives you the answers to the following questions:

  • How can I work smarter instead of harder?
  • What tips are there to help me work smarter and faster?
  • How to increase productivity and achieve more in less time?
  • What are the ways to increase my team’s productivity?

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  • Making work fun
  • Have a grand finale
  • Recognition
  • Celebrate more
  • Off-site team meetings
  • Blue sky Fridays – making time to shape the future
  • Offer leading edge training opportunities
  • Work Habits
  • Beware of becoming a workaholic
  • Three Screens
  • Move to a stand-up desk
  • Greeting the guest
  • Remember you /remember me
  • Full attention at meetings
  • Returning phone calls
  • Network within your organisation
  • Cell phone etiquette
  • Have a cluster of mentors
  • Having a safe haven – a second passion
  • Using consultants effectively on projects
  • Look a million dollars
  • Embracing learning
  • Communication
  • Learn how to sell change
  • Have “Action Meetings”
  • Hold stand-up SCRUM meetings
  • Other ways to save time in meetings
  • Controlling the wild beast — your email
  • One-page reporting
  • Contribute to the organisation’s newsletter and intranet
  • Delivering bulletproof PowerPoint presentations
  • Innovation
  • The importance of Peter Drucker’s abandonment
  • Embracing Kaizen
  • Jim Collins’ five step innovation blueprint

Winning Personal Habits

From lessons gathered from forty years of observation, reading and discovery. I have broken the winning personal habits into the following categories. 

  • Creating Behavioural Traits That Will Make You A Better Person and Leader, including how to minimise personal baggage, improving decision making.
  • Using NeuroLinguistic Programming to Achieve Greatness, including how to create your future through treasure-mapping.
  • Safety Net, includes the importance of having a cluster of mentors and a safe-haven. 
  • Maintaining Effective Relationships, includes how to handle those difficult ones.

This unique implementation working guide covers some of the techniques you can replicate to improve your behavioural habits. The 25 page working guide comes with some electronic media, eg: templates, and checklists to assist in a swift implementation. I have spent around US$20,000 researching, writing and testing this working guide. I guarantee, if you purchase, read, and act you will save many times the cost of this guide.

This working guide gives you the answers to the following questions:

  • How to win habits for success?
  • How to create winning habits?
  • How to master successful personal habits?

Contents click here to buy the working guide

  • Creating behavioural traits that will make you a better person and leader
    • Self-regulation
    • Hostmanship
    • Empathy
    • Humility—treat everyone as equals
    • Improve your decision-making ability
    • Seeing future opportunities
    • Maintain your learning agility
  • Using neuro linguistic programming to achieve greatness
    • Neuro linguistic programming
    • Treasure mapping – a way to use NLP
    • The Winner’s Bible
  • Safety net
    • Have a cluster of mentors
    • Having a safe-haven – a second passion
    • Do not run out of fuel
  • Maintaining effective relationships
    • Giving recognition freely
    • “One-minute manager” reprimand
    • Embrace dissidents
    • Aim to have at least three breaks a week with colleagues, peers, and dissidents
    • Managing difficult relationships

Next steps

  1. Read my article on leadership in an era of distraction
  2. Buy the leadership toolkit called Winning Leadership: A Model on Leadership For The Millennial Manager” – Toolkit (120 page PDF whitepaper + e-templates).