Work Smarter, Not Harder

5 Lessons • 27m • Carson Tate

Work Smarter, Not Harder

Productivity consultant Carson Tate emphasizes that while you may feel overshadowed by others' natural abilities, there is no universal method for productivity; instead, it's crucial to tailor your approach to maximize your results.
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Identify Your Productivity Style

To effectively manage your attention at work, personalize your productivity by identifying your unique cognitive style—whether as a Prioritizer, Planner, Arranger, or Visualizer—and leverage tools and strategies that align with your preferences for optimal efficiency.

Identify Your Productivity Style

Explore Tools and Systems to Support Your Productivity Style

In this lesson, Carson Tate guides you in aligning technology tools with your personal productivity style—whether you're a Prioritizer, Planner, Arranger, or Visualizer—to enhance efficiency by leveraging your strengths and preferences.

Explore Tools and Systems to Support Your Productivity Style

Push Past the “Shoulds”

Organization expert Carson Tate encourages questioning the importance of our "shoulds" using the POWER Method, which helps evaluate their purpose, opportunity, expectations, and truth, ultimately empowering us to prioritize effectively and confidently say "no" when necessary.

Push Past the “Shoulds”

Manage Across Productivity Styles to Create High-Performing Teams

Carson Tate teaches how to enhance team collaboration by recognizing and adapting to the unique productivity styles of direct reports—Prioritizers, Planners, Arrangers, and Visualizers—while tailoring communication to their specific needs and strengths.

Manage Across Productivity Styles to Create High-Performing Teams

Start a Meeting Revolution

Productivity expert Carson Tate advocates for a meeting revolution by encouraging intentional goal-setting, respectful time management, and effective planning, emphasizing the importance of questioning meeting value, selecting necessary attendees, creating action plans, and gathering feedback to enhance overall meeting effectiveness.

Start a Meeting Revolution

At some point in your career, you’ve probably felt surrounded by people who seem able to excel more naturally than you. But when it comes to productivity, there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Productivity consultant Carson Tate shows you how to manage your style to achieve maximum results.

Learning Objectives

  • Identify your productivity style.
  • Discover productivity tools and systems.
  • Evaluate obligations with the POWER method.
  • Communicate across productivity styles.
  • Reassess your meeting agendas and goals.