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Podcast: Productivity Guru Eb Schmidt

Monday, 14 July 2008

21st Century Techniques for Personal Productivity

Remember your last “promotion” - the one that came with fewer staff, more responsibility, and a budget cut?

Eb Schmidt

The letter usually reads something like this; “Congratulations! (name) on your recent promotion to (whatever) and 4% pay raise. We’re sure you are up to the exciting challenges we all face at XYZ, as well as your increased visibility, now that you are in charge of our (title), globally. As you know, about 50% of the individuals in your department have elected to take early retirement, and there are no immediate plans to replace them until we complete our current reorganization, and implement the recommendations of the McKinsey team, (who have made your life miserable for the last six months and cost us millions of dollars). As a friendly reminder, the new corporate travel policy states that business class travel is only allowed on flights of 15 hours or more. We’re all very proud of your continued success and advancement! Have a great day.”

Which is all to say that: Llfe is faster and more complex. We're deluged with information. Tortured by impossible deadlines. And overwhelmed by high-spiraling expectations. No matter how well-organized we are, we simply can't get it all done. Mission Control is a new approach to productivity that, according to our guest, Eb Schmidt, provides a dramatic increase in your productivity and effectiveness, while reducing your stress.

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Eb has worked in the areas of quality and operations in various global companies of the consumer industry. When starting his own consulting firm he looked at the expertise he had gained over the past 25 years, his strengths, what he really likes to do and what the market was looking for: He found that his own passion for organization, productivity improvement and cost reduction supported through the use of newly developed and highly effective tool sets (ERA 10 Step Process, Mission Control and Hoshin Kanri) were in real need across the industry. Shortly after starting the company it became more and more clear that teaching, coaching and in depth consulting of business tools for the 21st century was indeed a rewarding and needed area to engage in.

In short, Eb believes he can help us:
   1. save money,
   2. reduce waste, improve quality and increase production and
   3. experience power, freedom and peace of mind in the face of everything you have to do and handle.

You haven't learned to work in the 21st Century. The 20th Century techniques for personal productivity - tools that were developed more than 30 years ago - are simply insufficient for the demands of today's work environment. Where do the old techniques go wrong? They tell us that productivity is about getting more done. But that leaves us trying to get caught up. In reality, we just get farther behind.

An entirely new way of thinking about, organizing, and managing your work and your life. In our workshops and programs, you learn how you developed your work habits unconsciously over time - as a strategy for dealing with everything coming at you. You see how these familiar and established work habits are actually obstacles to your productivity. You will be able to build new work habits for dealing powerfully with the flood of demands, tasks, activities, problems and opportunities coming at you - work habits that leave you more confident, focused and effective.

Mission Control gives you a new system for dealing with everything - immediately making you more productive.

Learn how to be productive in the 21st Century. In Mission Control's award-winning programs, you will learn how to increase your productivity while reducing your stress. You'll develop the skills for better job performance, leading to raises and promotions. Find out more...

Using the Mission Control system, you will be able to focus completely on what is in front of you - and bring all of your intelligence, creativity, and natural ability to bear on your work. Using Mission Control, you will find yourself accomplishing what is important to you. You will increase your productivity, while cutting stress in half.