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Videos, articles and more...all about workplace performance and productivity

Looking forward into 2009, we're going to be posting more and more videos, audio interviews and new products on our website. Stay tuned, it's gonna be great!

This topic - the psychology and sociology of workplace performance - has me working overtime to research, test, and write about the topics that are most interesting to people all over the place...how to manage it all, while continuing to create, engage and experience even more success moving forward into tomorrow.

Maybe it's the time of the year, but I'm especially interested in taking those dreams and finding ways to make them realities. Kinda reminds me of Jill Taylor's presentation at TED...

"Parent pitfalls, pressures and preventing school burn-out" a presentation on 18 Sept. 2008

Joe and I have been friends for years now, and he continues to impress me with his enthusiasm and persistence. His first book will be published next year; in the meantime, he continues to provide some amazing information on his website:

www.Thinking-Forward.com

Here's the announcement (click here) for Joe's TeleSeminar on 18 September 2008:

Parent pitfalls, pressures and preventing school burn-out

Join Joe Bruzzese and Vanessa Van Petten of the web site, www.onteenstoday.com on Thursday, September 18th at at 11:00 am PST for a 30-minute teleseminar.

Vanessa will share her insights on the following questions:

1. What are some pitfalls parents make when talking to kids and teens?

2. What kind of pressure is on kids coming from parents and how does this affect kids differently?
3. How can parents help with school burn-out?

Writing and talking about "low productivity" days (and how to turn them around!)

I received an e-mail yesterday from the producer at TalkingHeadTV.com, who asked if I'd chat with him "live" about the most recent LifeHacker article that we had published. (By the way, as of 09/16/2008, at 11:31am, we've had over 24,000 views of that article! Very cool...

We spoke for about 10 minutes, and here's just a clip from that conversation...

TeleSeminar - last minute notice - today!

Here's the invitation that went out to a small group at a couple of organizations we work with. We have room for about 20 more people to call in...if you can make it, great!

Please join us on Monday, July 28th, at 2pm for our 2nd TeleSeminar with Jason Womack. Jason will share some of his ideas on Personal Performance as they relate to being Fit and Effective (www.FitAndEffective.com).

Jason is going to meet with us for a few minutes (10 minute presentation, 5 minutes of Question/Answer) in between his trips – he’ll just be returning from Washington DC, and he leaves for London the next day!

Please call in about 5 minutes early, just to get entered into the call and to get ready for our TeleConference. How do you do it? Pretty simple:

Call  (712) 451-6000

Listen to the welcome message and prompts and then:

Enter Code - 951197#   

How much sleep do we really need?

Last night, I reviewed some of my iTunes PodCasts that I had not yet listened to. Looking over the different sections is indeed inspiring (I've downloaded news articles, triathlon training programs, business reviews, biographies, seminars and more...all for free!).

So, I picked one to listen to: a "60-Minutes" presentation on "sleep deprivation." The scientists who are studying sleep and neural function are continuing to make some stunning discoveries.

*UPDATE: It was one of the 60 Minutes Podcast - The Full Broadcast...

A couple of things I picked up, as related to what I do for a living...

- Our performance, ability to generate new ideas, and focus go UP with each extra bit of sleep we get at night.

- 8 hours is indeed a benchmark, although some people need more.

- When our sleep is interrupted (either by our own "thinking, worrying, stressing" or by our outside world), our ability to concentrate and recall information is compromised.

Here's an idea: For 5 nights, run your own experiment: What happens when you get a "little more" sleep each night? Try coordinating your work AND your life to get into bed one hour earlier...just for 5 nights, and see what your experience is like!

A ten-minute TeleSeminar recording...

...on "getting started with your fitness program."

Ok, so I've gotten so many e-mails about this, I figured I'd post it here for a while...

If you'd like to listen to a recording of our last call, click here...

...and here's the info you'll need to get in:

username: audio
password: files

Click the picture below for an overview before you listen!

Our latest interview on Life and Work...in balance (or, as some would say: imbalance!)

Click here - Putting the “Life” in Work Life Balance

In this episode, brought to you from studio 315 in Madison, Wisconsin, we interview Jason and Jodi Womack, a husband and wife team who help people manage time and increase personal productivity. They are a great example of how to put more life into work life balance.

Kim and Jason interviewed us last week, and JUST published the completed PodCast. (While you're on the site, consider subscribing via iTunes...they've got some GREAT stuff!)

A short (20-minute) interview in Dallas, TX

In mid-February, I was doing some work in Dallas, TX, and the morning I left, David Randle met me in the hotel lobby for an "impromptu interview."

We cover just a few topics such as: influential books, ideas on work/life balance, life-long learning, and expanding our comfort zones. We hope you enjoy this conversation!

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Online Time Management Interview 12 January - (9am PST, 12pm EST, 5pm London)

Hello all! Here is the "last minute" announcement about the interview I am participating in later today...(I will come on about 10:10am California 12:10pm New York, 6:10pm London).

Here's a chance to make your Saturday Lunchtime Productive... REALLY Productive.

This Saturday's BizzBuzzLive! Radio Show could be the best ever. Our theme for this Saturday's show is Time Management. We have two of the best time management, organization, and productivity gurus on the planet! Jason Womack was just named as one of the Top 100 Minds in Personal Productivity by Personal Excellence Magazine. Peggy Duncan IS the Personal Productivity Expert(R).

We will answer such questions as:
* Is there a better way to do things at home?
* What does the Super Bowl have to do with time management?
* How can I be more productive?
* How does organization fit into productivity?
* How can I maximize results while minimizing time spent on tasks?
* What is a Time Management System?
* What are the "Productivity Gurus" claiming will be the time-savers of the future?
* What shockingly simple truths could save our career or even our life?
* Wait until you hear the lineup of Time Management and Productivity Gurus we have for this Saturday's show?! You could fill a library with their books!

All this and more in the fastest two hours on radio at www.BizzBuzzLive.com or www.1510.com. If you are in Kansas City, you may listen to 1510 AM as always.

Remember, it is this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Central. January 12.

BigMediaUSA - interviews by Dianne Gubin

I had the honor of sitting with Dianne Gubin early in 2007 to discuss some of my approaches to "engagement and time management."

To see a link to the episode, just scroll to the bottom of this page.