Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Cut through digital distraction to maximize performance Studies show the average person will experience 3 distractions before they reach the end of this page, and the majority of those distractions will be self-initiated. Smartphones and social technology have blended endless opportunities to improve productivity with a barrage of distractions demanding our attention. People are spending more time being responsive to these technological interruptions than responsible for their job output. As a result, they aren't hitting deadlines or producing quality work, and don't understand why.
Can I Have your Attention? is the business leader's guide to cutting through the noise and getting your employees back to work. This book explains how a leader can turn chaos into focus, and implement a technology strategy with digital distraction in mind. The smartphone isn't going away. Learn some simple rules and guidelines to improve focus and create the mental space needed for your people to work to their full potential.
You'll learn how to:
- Overcome digital distractions and let your employees work
- Minimize interruptions and limit unnecessary interaction
- Establish a climate of focus and concentration
- Engage intelligently with emerging technology
As job descriptions and workloads expand, the last thing your employees need is a productivity drain. Can I Have Your Attention? shows you how to reverse the current paradigm and make the workplace once again a place of work.
Synopsis
"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.