Got An Hour?

Everyone is busy.
But anyone can find an hour to learn how to run a better meeting, lead a team more effectively, enhance customer service, or improve business writing. Whether you need to brush up on your business acumen skills—or acquire them for the first time—commit just 60 minutes to reading a SMARTER IN AN HOUR book, and you are guaranteed to optimize your productivity and start getting the results you want. Each volume is complete with practical but powerful strategies and tools you can put to work right away. 
 
SMARTER IN AN HOUR is not just a book series. It is a movement to help people become leaders with greater impact and less stress. 

    What Problems Do YOU
    ​Need Solved in 60 Minutes?

    Share the topics you want future books in the series to address

Let’s redefine what meetings can and should be

​The secrets to successful, effective meetings aren’t complicated. With the strategies in Don’t Waste My Time and 60 minutes:
  • You can inspire meeting members instead of boring them.
  • You can engage participants instead of speaking to “attendees.”
  • You can achieve real results instead of closing meetings with “we can finish this up next time.”
People don’t mind meetings—just ones that waste their time. Got an hour?
“Don’t Waste My Time"
​is the debut title in the SMARTER IN AN HOUR series

I spent 16 years in corporate America and a lot of the time was wasted in meetings.  I SO wish I'd had this book (wish everyone in the company had) so we could have spent more time "doing" and less time "talking about doing." I like how it is broken down into easy steps, and since it is a super quick read, you can start implementing the tactics immediately. ​

Amazon Reviewer, Don't Waste My Time

I spent 16 years in corporate America and a lot of the time was wasted in meetings.  I SO wish I'd had this book (wish everyone in the company had) so we could have spent more time "doing" and less time "talking about doing." I like how it is broken down into easy steps, and since it is a super quick read, you can start implementing the tactics immediately. 

Amazon Reviewer, Don't Waste My Time

​"Become and manager," they said.
​"It'll be a great career move," they said.

So here you are, Ms. or Mr. Manager. All eyes are on you. You need new skills to keep employees engaged. You need to demonstrate new behaviors to manage others' performance. You are being held accountable for getting results. And, you are pressed for time. What you really need right now is guidance...
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Focus On This, Not That, the latest title in the SMARTER IN AN HOUR series, will:
  • Deliver techniques to avoid and fix three common mistakes managers make.
  • Help you craft work goals that take employees out of their comfort zones, into their growth zones, without encroaching on their panic zones.
  • Provide guidance and tools to deliver sincere, specific recognition and provide feedback in a flash to boost engagement, performance, and results.
  • Show you how to entrust employees with greater responsibility without micromanaging them.
  • Reveal no-nonsense strategies to address three threats to productivity: inefficient practices, time wasters, and bad habits.

​Whether you manage one employee or many, this book will be the best hour investment you can make to become the manager you always wanted to have—all backed up with tools, worksheets, and more.