Sergiu Simmel » Productivity http://sergiusimmel.com/blog On STRUCTURING Business, Marketing, Learning, Teaching, Technology and Life Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:46:10 +0000 en hourly 1 Sergiu S. Simmel and Clepsydra Systems, Inc. Sergiu S. Simmel On STRUCTURING Business, Marketing, Learning, Teaching, Technology and ... Life Clean No 2004-2009 sss@sergiusimmel.com (Sergiu Simmel) sss@sergiusimmel.com (Sergiu Simmel) 1440 http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Sergiu Simmel http://sergiusimmel.com/blog 144 144 Business, Marketing, Learning, Teaching, Structure and Life Sergiu Simmel Sergiu Simmel sss@sergiusimmel.com no no Where does 28% of your time go? http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2011/04-20-where-does-28-of-your-time-go/ http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2011/04-20-where-does-28-of-your-time-go/#comments Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:40:55 +0000 SergiuSimmel http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/?p=558

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To the 33' free training: ProductivityForLife.com/just33minutes

Action Guide for the 33' free training: ProductivityForLife.com/33guide

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]]> http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2011/04-20-where-does-28-of-your-time-go/feed/ 0 0:02:32 . To the 33' free training: ProductivityForLife.com/just33minutes Action Guide for the 33' free training: ProductivityForLife.com/33guide I would love you to share your impressions and thoughts in the Comment box below. Thank you! . To the 33' free training: ProductivityForLife.com/just33minutes Action Guide for the 33' free training: ProductivityForLife.com/33guide I would love you to share your impressions and thoughts in the Comment box below. Thank you! Business, Life, Productivity sss@sergiusimmel.com no no Is Your Business Model Differentiated Enough? http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2011/03-17-is-your-business-model-differentiated-enough/ http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2011/03-17-is-your-business-model-differentiated-enough/#comments Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:50:57 +0000 SergiuSimmel http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/?p=542 Business productivity does not mean just producing more results in less time, but producing the "right" results, the Valuable Results. This brings us to the crucial notion of Business Model. I asked Bob Norton, an expert in the art and science of business strategic planning, to explain

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]]> http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2011/03-17-is-your-business-model-differentiated-enough/feed/ 0 0:05:39 Business productivity does not mean just producing more results in less time, but producing the "right" results, the Valuable Results. This brings us to the crucial notion of Business Model. I asked Bob Norton, an expert in the art and sci[...] Business productivity does not mean just producing more results in less time, but producing the "right" results, the Valuable Results. This brings us to the crucial notion of Business Model. I asked Bob Norton, an expert in the art and science of business strategic planning, to explain Why a well-differentiated business model is key to your business success What are the attributes of an optimized business model How to go about refining your business model How to create a business model that secures your competitive advantage in 4 steps, and What impact will a differentiated business model have on your business, once you have optimized it So first let's watch the video together, while following Bob's points on the mindmap: . [Click on the image for an enlarged view.] Now think of the business you work in, or lead, or manage, or own, or are in the process of starting. Think of this business situation today: Is your Business Model differentiated enough? Take our 1-question quick poll at GetStructureNow.com/AskBob/poll and see how you fare against all the other respondents. (You must have a LinkedIn account to access it!) I also invite you to participate in a 70-minute interactive tele-webinar with Bob Norton on Optimizing Your Business Model, and ask him your questions about differentiating your business model. Register for FREE at: GetStructureNow.com/AskBob If you're reading this before the live event, I invite you to actively participate. Bob has been coaching small-to-midsize businesses for over a decade through his C-Level Boot Camp, and had himself grown two businesses from start-up to $100M in revenues. If the timing of the live event is not good for you, or you're reading this after the time of the interactive event, register and you will gain access to the full recording, the 17-page Action Guide and (again, at no cost) to Bob's own 122-page book on Designing A Business for Rapid Growth. GetStructureNow.com/AskBob ← ACCESS HERE If you do have any experiences or thoughts to share, use the Comment Box below. . Business, Productivity sss@sergiusimmel.com no no Focus and Distractions with Stever Robbins http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2011/03-15-focus-and-distractions-with-stever-robbins/ http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2011/03-15-focus-and-distractions-with-stever-robbins/#comments Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:03:25 +0000 SergiuSimmel http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/?p=523 Whether you are a business leader, a business owner, a professional info worker, a solopreneur, or even a stay-at-home parent, we are constantly faced with the need to focus and the reality of distractions. I know I am. Are you?

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]]> http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2011/03-15-focus-and-distractions-with-stever-robbins/feed/ 2 0:09:17 Whether you are a business leader, a business owner, a professional info worker, a solopreneur, or even a stay-at-home parent, we are constantly faced with the need to focus and the reality of distractions. I know I am. Are you? But what is "fo[...] Whether you are a business leader, a business owner, a professional info worker, a solopreneur, or even a stay-at-home parent, we are constantly faced with the need to focus and the reality of distractions. I know I am. Are you? But what is "focus?" Here is how Stever Robbins, author of The Get-It-Done Guy's 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More, and renowned productivity podcaster (over 11 million downloads at the time of this writing), defines it: "Focus is lining your mind up either along a particular content are you're working on or a particular process that you're going through and getting every fiber of your being lined up behind that thing, and staying there long enough to make some serious progress. It's also the flow: you're just in it and doing it. When you're there, you're there 100%." As to distractions… . . "We have created a culture whereas we have elevated distractions and interruptions to the level of most desirable." Distractions are the opposite of focus. They manifest themselves in our switch-tasking from item to item to item. Research over research has shown how switch-tasking (or "multi-tasking") causes us (mainly our brains) to stop functioning well. Not only does it make us do poorly on each and every task we are switching from and to, but it makes us end up doing poorly all the time, on everything. "The more you multi-task, the worse you get at everything, across the board," says Stever. The result: we waste an average of 28% of our time, due to our substantially reduced productivity. So how do we re-establish focus and eliminate unnecessary distractions? One part of the solution many productivity experts suggest is organizing your activity along sequential "bursts of focus." Sometimes, these bursts are short (even as short as 5 minutes): this is what Stever calls "speed-dating your tasks." The trick is to be "100% there" during each and every one of these periods of focus. Another part is organizing our (physical and digital) space in such a way that it does not automatically create distractions. Yet most of us create and then live in environments that are "completely customized for distractions." Just think of the typical arrangement of an info worker in a cubicle around many other people with a telephone ready to ring at any time, an instant messaging program chiming every time a text comes through, a browser window with tens of tabs open, a mobile phone constantly telling us that we received yet another SMS from a friend, and the list goes on and on. Yet another part of the solution is training ourselves to … and this may surprise you … say "no." We constantly find ourselves committing to tasks that make no sense, that do not further our goals, and that are simply distractions. We say "yes" not only to others, but also to ourselves. Practicing the art of saying "no" (again, to both others and ourselves) is a crucial component to staying focused. I recently produced and hosted a tele-webinar with Stever Robbins where I "grilled" him on the why, what, and how of working less and doing more. Here is a 9-minute audio sampler from this program, focused (pun intended!) on focus and distractions: To instantly access the entire 60-minute FREE program (together with the 8-page Action Guide and two extra bonuses from Stever!), simply register at: GetStructureNow.com/AskStever Note: when you click on the link above, you will be asked to ask a question about productivity, so that Stever can answer them in future programs. If you have none at the moment, no worries: simply write "no question," and proceed with the free registration. Once you listened to the 60-minute program in a focused way (yes, try this one time to eliminate ALL distractions for 60 minutes), please share with us your thoughts, impressions, comments, [...] Productivity sss@sergiusimmel.com no no The Blessing and the Curse of Email http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2011/01-13-the-blessing-and-the-curse-of-email/ http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2011/01-13-the-blessing-and-the-curse-of-email/#comments Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:07:51 +0000 SergiuSimmel http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/?p=509 Email has transformed the way professionals (and beyond) both work and live. Its versatility, portability, ease-of-use and speed have made it the preferred way in which we digitally send and receive messages.

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]]> http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2011/01-13-the-blessing-and-the-curse-of-email/feed/ 0 How To Read Well-Structured Mindmaps http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2010/11-30-how-to-read-well-structured-mindmaps/ http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2010/11-30-how-to-read-well-structured-mindmaps/#comments Wed, 01 Dec 2010 01:44:59 +0000 SergiuSimmel http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/?p=330 Well-structured mindmaps help you absorb, review and apply rich business training content, for maximum productivity. What is a well-structured mindmap? How do we read it? Here is a quick introduction:

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]]> http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2010/11-30-how-to-read-well-structured-mindmaps/feed/ 0 0:06:47 Well-structured mindmaps help you absorb, review and apply rich business training content, for maximum productivity. What is a well-structured mindmap? How do we read it? Here is a quick introduction: . Didn't catch the mindmap of this present[...] Well-structured mindmaps help you absorb, review and apply rich business training content, for maximum productivity. What is a well-structured mindmap? How do we read it? Here is a quick introduction: . Didn't catch the mindmap of this presentation, shown at the end of the movie? Click below for… … and now Right-Click (Windows) or Ctrl-Click (Mac) HERE to download the mindmap. Have you encountered mindmaps in your business continuing education? Do they make sense to you? Have mindmaps helped your understanding of the material? How about review and recall? I invite you to ask questions or comment below about YOUR experience with reading mindmaps. Learning+Teaching, Productivity sss@sergiusimmel.com no no Productivity For Professionals http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2010/10-21-productivity-for-professionals/ http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2010/10-21-productivity-for-professionals/#comments Thu, 21 Oct 2010 19:20:04 +0000 SergiuSimmel http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/?p=317 "We get less done not as much due to WHAT we do, but HOW we do what we do." This is the central theme of a 60-minute teleseminar on Productivity for Professionals I recently offered to hundreds of professionals worldwide. Here is a 4-minute introduction:

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]]> http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2010/10-21-productivity-for-professionals/feed/ 0 0:04:03 "We get less done not as much due to WHAT we do, but HOW we do what we do." This is the central theme of a 60-minute teleseminar on Productivity for Professionals I recently offered to hundreds of professionals worldwide. Here is a 4-minut[...] "We get less done not as much due to WHAT we do, but HOW we do what we do." This is the central theme of a 60-minute teleseminar on Productivity for Professionals I recently offered to hundreds of professionals worldwide. Here is a 4-minute introduction: You can gain instantaneous access to the 60-minute replay and 11-page Action Guide at zero cost by simply introducing yourself below: Name Email Enjoy! Business, Productivity sss@sergiusimmel.com no no AGGREGATE to Succeed http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2010/09-06-aggregate-to-succeed/ http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2010/09-06-aggregate-to-succeed/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:59:11 +0000 SergiuSimmel http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/?p=134

5TracksOfWealth - August 2010

We live in a world of fragmentation: everything comes at us in small doses: lots of short messages over IM, lots of emails, lots of paperwork, constant voice messages, etc. With fragmentation of the flow of “stuff” comes fragmentation in time: our time is now divided into short spurts of attention to many items, jumping from one to the next in an never ending dance of coping. At the end of the week, we are exhausted.

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]]> http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2010/09-06-aggregate-to-succeed/feed/ 0 Brandon Allen interviewed me on 5TracksOfWealth http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2010/08-29-brandon-allen-interviewed-me-on-5tracksofwealth/ http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2010/08-29-brandon-allen-interviewed-me-on-5tracksofwealth/#comments Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:05:17 +0000 SergiuSimmel http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/?p=117

Brandon Allen

Brandon Allen is the CEO of TheBizBlueprint.com and producer of 5TracksOfWealth.com, an exclusive financial and business building coaching service for business owners.

Brandon produces and hosts regular teleseminars on topics of interest to his coaching clients. Last week he invited me to speak to this distinguished group on Personal Productivity–a topic of high interest of his clients and focus for the 5TracksOfWealth program.

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]]> http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2010/08-29-brandon-allen-interviewed-me-on-5tracksofwealth/feed/ 0 Productivity = Results / Time http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2010/06-29-productivity-results-time/ http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2010/06-29-productivity-results-time/#comments Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:57:02 +0000 SergiuSimmel http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/?p=101 During my recent trip to London, Elizabeth Walshe interviewed me on the why, what and how of personal productivity.  During this short [4'34"] interview, I explain WHY I have been focusing on productivity, WHAT productivity really is and HOW can you and I increase our productivity through the Productivity Boot Camp.

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]]> http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2010/06-29-productivity-results-time/feed/ 0 0:00:01 During my recent trip to London, Elizabeth Walshe interviewed me on the why, what and how of personal productivity.  During this short [4'34"] interview, I explain WHY I have been focusing on productivity, WHAT productivity really is and HOW can you[...] During my recent trip to London, Elizabeth Walshe interviewed me on the why, what and how of personal productivity.  During this short [4'34"] interview, I explain WHY I have been focusing on productivity, WHAT productivity really is and HOW can you and I increase our productivity through the Productivity Boot Camp. Business, Life, Productivity sss@sergiusimmel.com no no Productivity Tip #003 http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2010/06-14-productivity-tip-003/ http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2010/06-14-productivity-tip-003/#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:23:04 +0000 SergiuSimmel http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/?p=98 Schedule blocks of time to deal with individual items together, instead of sprinkling the entire day with them.

Why?

Because you'll reduce how much you switch-task during the day, meaning the number of times you switch from one kind of task to another kind.

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]]> http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2010/06-14-productivity-tip-003/feed/ 0 Productivity Tip #002 http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2010/06-02-productivity-tip-002/ http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2010/06-02-productivity-tip-002/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:10:56 +0000 SergiuSimmel http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/?p=94 Before the end of the day, prepare your prioritized to-do list for the next day.

Why?

Because …

  1. You'll get a better rest not worrying about planning your day, AND
  2. You'll be "background processing" these items for higher productivity next day, AND

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]]> http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2010/06-02-productivity-tip-002/feed/ 0 What is a Productivity Boot Camp? http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2010/05-29-what-is-a-productivity-boot-camp/ http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2010/05-29-what-is-a-productivity-boot-camp/#comments Sun, 30 May 2010 00:11:40 +0000 SergiuSimmel http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/?p=85 Being recently certified as a Productivity Coach by Dave Crenshaw, best-selling author and the President of the National Association of Productivity Coaches (NAPC), I am in the process of launching a new suite of services aimed at personal, group and organizational productivity. The Productivity Boot Camp is the first such service. It is a package that includes a 1.5 day 1-on-1 Productivity Intensive coaching, a 21-day Productivity Accountability service, and even a copy of Dave Crenshaw's latest book (Invaluable: The Secret to Becoming Irreplaceable).

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]]> http://sergiusimmel.com/blog/2010/05-29-what-is-a-productivity-boot-camp/feed/ 0 0:00:01 Being recently certified as a Productivity Coach by Dave Crenshaw, best-selling author and the President of the National Association of Productivity Coaches (NAPC), I am in the process of launching a new suite of services aimed at personal, group an[...] Being recently certified as a Productivity Coach by Dave Crenshaw, best-selling author and the President of the National Association of Productivity Coaches (NAPC), I am in the process of launching a new suite of services aimed at personal, group and organizational productivity. The Productivity Boot Camp is the first such service. It is a package that includes a 1.5 day 1-on-1 Productivity Intensive coaching, a 21-day Productivity Accountability service, and even a copy of Dave Crenshaw's latest book (Invaluable: The Secret to Becoming Irreplaceable). I am still working on posting the full information about the service, but if you'd like to explore how you can reclaim 20% of your professional time, please contact me at ProductivityForLife.com/PBC. For a Quick Facts Sheet, check ProductivityForLife.com/PBC/info. Here is what one of my early clients had to say about his experience with the Productivity Boot Camp [2:48]: Business, Life, Productivity sss@sergiusimmel.com no no