Read your way to increased productivity
Over the last decade Dermot Crowley has written a number of books to support our programs and to codify the principles that help individuals and teams to work more productively.
Smart Work, Smart Teams and Lead Smart make up the Smart Productivity series that support our core programs. Urgent! Is a passion project of Dermot’s that helps the reader to create a sense of urgency, not senseless urgency.
Smart Work
How to Increase Productivity, Achieve Balance and Reduce Stress
Smart Work is the busy professional’s guide to getting organised in the digital workplace. Are you drowning in constant emails, phone calls, paperwork, interruptions and meeting actions?
This book throws you a lifeline. Whether your workforce is in person, hybrid, or remote, Smart Work shows you how to take advantage of your digital tools to reprioritise, refocus and get back to doing what’s important.
- Conquer the daily incoming deluge of emails
- Spend more time on the important work
- Leverage your desktop and mobile technology
Smart Teams
How to Move from Friction to Flow and Work Better Together
Smart Teams will help your team to go beyond personal productivity to build a culture where productivity thrives. This book shows you how to turn around the unproductive team behaviours that create friction. You’ll learn the ‘superproductive’ behaviours that promote flow and the most impactful productivity principles for working better together.
Email noise, unproductive meetings and poorly organised projects can stifle creativity and disrupt everyone’s workflow. A culture that isn’t productive results in long hours, more stress, and a lack of balance. But by raising awareness of how our behaviours impact our work and our colleagues, you build the desire and capability to change within your team.
- Foster a culture of ‘superproductivity’
- Run fewer, shorter and more effective meetings
- Reduce urgency, interruptions and email noise
Lead Smart
How to Build and Lead Highly Productive Teams
The simple truth is that leaders have never felt so distracted, so overwhelmed and so unable to find the time they need to make a real impact.
In Lead Smart, productivity expert Dermot Crowley delivers proven strategies for cutting through the busyness and working and leading more effectively, maximising productivity for you and your team.
You’ll discover specific actions and solutions for shifting your focus from activity to impact ― so you can direct your energy to the opportunities and challenges that matter the most.
- Level up your personal productivity so you can minimise distractions and noise
- Streamline how you interact with your team and delegate more effectively
- Lead the team culture by aligning priorities, managing urgency and fostering accountability
Urgent!
Strategies to Control Urgency, Reduce Stress and Increase Productivity
Urgency—that frantic feeling that we need to be doing more, and faster—is a destructive force in today’s workplace. Unnecessary urgency can be toxic, causing stress and burnout.
But not all urgency is bad, and sometimes we really do need to get things done quickly. Too little urgency can lead to inaction and lost productivity. So how do we find the right balance where we can use urgency as a meaningful tool to keep productivity up, without generating burnout?
Urgent! is a guide to using urgency for good to help achieve your goals, to drive success, and minimise stress for yourself, your teams, and your business.
- Eliminate stress and burnout for yourself, your teams, and your businesses
- Learn how to dial urgency up or down, depending on the situation
- Stay focused on what’s important and learn prioritisation skills to avoid burnout
Curious to go further? Our training programs take it to the next level
What better way to consolidate and implement the productivity strategies in these books than to organise a training program for your team?
Our Smart Work, Smart Teams and Lead Smart programs show you and your team how to build the habits and skills that lead to real behavioural change.
