productive leadership by mike st. pierre (7 ways to get more done in less time)

P R O D U C T I V E L E A D E R S H I P

M I K E S T. P I E R R E

7 Ways to Get More Done in Less Time

A B O U T M E • H U S B A N D • D A D • P R E S I D E N T, M O R R I S

C AT H O L I C H . S . • B L O G G E R

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O B J E C T I V E S

• Define productive leadership

• Stress as an tension to be managed, not solved

• How to achieve a “less is more” approach

• Ideal week

• GTD (Getting Things Done)

• What can you do TODAY?

Productive people cultivate small advantages.

N O W T H AT ’ S P R O D U C T I V E !

S O U R C E S O F S T R E S S

• Employees

• Students in crisis

• “Tough parents”

• Budget

• Enrollment

• Diocese

• Family

S E C O N D A R Y S C H O O L L E A D E R

“Identify your stress and you can leverage your leadership”

In everything, love simplicity.  Saint Francis de Sales

S T R E S S I S R E A L … I T ’ S W A I T I N G F O R Y O U

What if you could pin-point the sources of

stress?

H O M E N O I S E

A N T H O N Y P. G R A E S C H , C O - A U T H O R ,

"It's difficult to find time to sort, organize and manage these

possessions… Thus, our excess becomes a visible sign of

unaccomplished work that constantly challenges our deeply ingrained notions of tidy homes

and elicits substantial stress."

O F F I C E N O I S E

C O M P U T E R N O I S E

B R U C E L E E

“It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at

the inessentials.”

S T. A U G U S T I N E

“Peace is the

tranquility of

order.”

What if less really is more?

M E I S T E R E C K H A R T

"God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process

of subtraction."

Y O U R S C H E D U L E

• Meetings

• Interruptions

• Crisis events

• Needy people

• Fatigue

PAT R I C K L E N C I O N I

Adding up all of the time that these meetings require amounts to approximately twenty percent of a

leader's time. !

If you think about it, a leader who hates meetings is a lot like a symphony conductor who hates concerts.

Meetings are what leaders do, and the solution to bad meetings is not the elimination of them, but rather the

transformation of them.

I N T E R R U P T I O N S

• Be interruptible (Jesus certainly was!)

• Use 6:00am-7:00am

• Use 3:30pm-5:30pm

• Use an occasional Saturday

S T U D E N T S I N C R I S I S

• Delegate anxiety

• Leverage your team

• Who is the point person?

• Scheduled follow up?

M I C H A E L H YAT T

“Surround yourself with enough positive people so you can keep your energy level

up. And, you want to have this same kind of effect on others. Sometimes, you just

have to tell people the truth. Not only for your sake, but for theirs.

FAT I G U E

• The hidden enemy

• Weakens our will

• Isolates us

• Promotes bad behaviors

• Can hinder the Kingdom of God

P R O D U C T I V E L E A D E R S H I P D E F I N E D

• Leadership practiced for God, for others, out of respect for the gifts God has given you.

• It is generative.

• It is inspiring.

• It produces results.

A S M A L L E D G E C A N P R O D U C E B I G R E S U LT S

G T D / G E T T I N G T H I N G S D O N E

• Methodology

• Tool-agnostic

• Simple strategies

step 1: write it all down

step 2: use your inbox

step 3: become a list ninja

step 4: match tasks to energy

step 5: review 1x per week

Result = mind like water

7 W AY S T O G E T M O R E D O N E I N L E S S T I M E

• Plan your week.

• Batch your email.

• Match energy to tasks.

• Use your inboxes (like religion).

• Use a digital task manager.

• Try GTD.

• Write everything down.

T H A N K Y O U

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