Can I have your attention? : inspiring better work habits, focusing your team, and getting stuff done in the constantly connected workplace / Curt Steinhorst with Jonathan McKee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Steinhorst, Curt, 1983- author.

McKee, Jonathan R. (Jonathan Ray), 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teams in the workplace.

Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Inspiring better work habits, focusing your team, and getting stuff done in the constantly connected workplace

Place of Publication:

Wiley 2017

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"A must read for anyone in the business of leading others." Ken May, CEO of Top Golf; former CEO of Fedex "If you want your team to stay focused, you will want to read Can I Have Your Attention?" Chester Elton, New York Times Best-Selling author of All In, The Carrot Principle and What Motivates Me Inspire better work habits. Focus your team. Get stuff done in the constantly connected workplace. As our workloads expand, attention has never been more valuable. Or more difficult to keep. In Can I Have your Attention? , Curt Steinhorst shows business leaders how to cut through the noise and get their employees back to work. Curt has spent years helping Fortune 500 companies overcome distraction and achieve focus. With technology creating endless opportunites to "improve productivity", people spend so much time responding to the interruptions that they've lost the ability to focus and do their jobs. Yet, the potential for harnessing the power of your team's attention has never been greater--if you can capture it. You'll learn how to: Implement a comprehensive organizational strategy to increase focus and overcome digital distraction. Take back control of the technology in your organization and life. Establish a Communication Compact, defining how, when, and why your team will communicate with each other. Create a "vault" to increase productivity, decrease stress, and boost your creativity. Free yourself and your employees from the never-ending flood of emails and messages. Achieve unmatched focus in the age of distraction. The smartphone isn't going away. Learn the simple rules and guidelines that will improve focus and create the mental space needed for your people to work to their full potential.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Foreword

Prologue: You Don't Have Jack

Section One: Nobody's Working

Chapter 1: The Curse of the Overwhelmed

Hey, I'm Doing My Job

Chapter 2: It's Not Their Fault

More Valuable Than Cash

Chapter 3: Tools of Our Tools

Technology Is Not the Problem

Millennials Are Not the Problem

Poor Productivity Is Not the Problem

The Problem Is Much Deeper-and Much More Costly

The Problem

Are You Part of the Solution?

Now That I Have Your Attention. . .

Section Two: Finding Focus

Chapter 4: The Science of Attention

Our Two Systems of Attention

Broken Models

The Magical Mysteries of Multitasking

Full Focus, Medium Focus, Light Focus

Chapter 5: Focus-Wise in the Age of Distraction

The Raft

The Sailboat

Drop That Marshmallow

Allocating the Right Focus at the Right Time

Choices and Consequences

Chapter 6: The Four Elements of Focus

Energy

Environment

Emotion

Experience

Section Three: Focus-Wise Space

Chapter 7: In Praise of Walls

Environmental Protection

Mental Space

Chapter 8: Office Space

Open Office

Cubicles

Working Remotely

The Focus-Wise Space

Chapter 9: The Vault

A Gym for Your Mind

Forming the Vault Habit

Section Four: Focus-Wise Technology

Chapter 10: Relationship Status: It's Complicated

Thank God for the Gift (?!) of Modern Technology

Technology Meets Culture

Technology Meets Greed

Chapter 11: Message Undeliverable

Barriers to Access

Limits to Excessive Switching

Utility and Simple Design

Chapter 12: Free at Last

Capture and Share

Automate, Automate, Automate

Be Easy to Use

Chapter 13: Best Buddy or Big Brother?

My Buddy and Me

Big Brother Is Watching.

Finding Balance in Technology

Section Five: Focus-Wise Communication

Chapter 14: Can You Hear Me Now?

Lost in the Noise

Chapter 15: Digital Communication: E-mail, Messaging, and Everything in Between

Connected But Disconnected

Bring the Noise

Improving Quality

Reducing Quantity

Chapter 16: Face to Face in a Facebook World

Face Time (Not the iPhone Kind)

Efficiency

Emotional Connection

Section Six: Focus-Wise Workday

Chapter 17: The Balance Myth

Separating Work and Life

Not Either/Or But If/Then

Blurred Lines

Chapter 18: Managing the Minutiae

Delineation

Delegation

Take a Minute

Chapter 19: Can We Get an Extension?

Cut Bad Expenses

Spend Them Wisely

Section Seven: Focus-Wise Leadership

Chapter 20: The First Filter

Applying the First Filter

Chapter 21: Individual to Institutional

Change as a Value

Chapter 22: Filling the Digital Skill Gaps

The Skills to Train

How to Train These Skills

Chapter 23: Competing with Zuckerberg

Digital Disconnect

Analog Leadership

A Direct Link to Motivation

Chapter 24: After All, We're Here to Work

Your People Are Bored

Increase Your Expectations

Now That I have Your Attention. . .

Chapter 25: The Focus-Wise Leader

What Are Better Undercurrents for Power?

How Do We Shift Undercurrents?

About the Authors

Acknowledgments

Notes

EULA.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119390480

1119390486

OCLC:

1005004760