Get Productive!: Boosting Your Productivity and Getting Things Done

Rewire your brain and overcome the 20 key time drains that diminish productivity

For anyone who's felt valuable time frittered away in checking emails or answering wrong phone numbers, or listening to a coworker giving you a minute-by-minute account of their previous night's date, help is finally here. Your time is, indeed, your own. And this handy guide, written by a leading executive coach, shows you how to retool your brain, reclaim your schedule, become a master of each minute, and make yourself more productive.

Using a method that is intuitive, easy to remember, and simple to use, this book will help you transform how you think, what you focus on, and what you do so that you can begin to create tangible results.

• Includes exercises that help you learn important thinking skills―essential to tackling important projects and attaining all those once elusive goals
• Features highly visual exercises that are quick to complete, allowing you to change your habits and see improvements right away
• Identifies the 20 key time drains that interfere with productivity and happiness

Full of creative, fun, and proven solutions to the common bugaboos of procrastination, feeling overwhelmed, and a general dissatisfaction with results, Get Productive! offers concrete steps toward rethinking how you work and reworking how you think.

Dr Magdalena Bak-Maier is a personal development expert, successful coach and bestselling author with over 12 years experience in the field of people development and a passion for sharing learning.

Trained neuroscientist, learning and development expert, Magdalena's approach is grounded in decoding how minds really work, combining logic with emotion to inspire and equip others for holistic productivity. For the last five years, Magdalena has largely focused on developing the talent and leadership skills of top scientists around the world, young global leaders with an inspiring vision and 1:1 practice to develop her specific style of coaching. 

Magdalena regularly speaks at staff development and coaching events, professional conferences, business and professional forums and interest groups including Tedx Superhuman through ideas in London. Dr Bak-Maier has worked with staff from Imperial College London, Imperial Business School, KLM/AirFrance, Ashoka UK, the London School of Economics, Royal College of Music, the National Health Service (NHS) and financial service firms.