Can I Have Your Attention?: Inspiring Better Work Habits, Focusing Your Team, And Getting Stuff Done In The Constantly Connected Workplace

Description

"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 MeInspire 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.

Author description

CURT STEINHORST is a speaker, business owner, entrepreneur, and founder of FocusWise. He equips professionals across the world to work smarter and stronger in this constantly-connected age. Steinhorst is a leading voice on strategic communications in the age of distraction and a certified speaker at the Center for Generational Kinetics. He is also the founder of a communications consultancy called Promentum Group. JONATHAN MCKEE is an expert on youth culture and Millennials, and the author of over twenty books.

Table of contents

Foreword ix Prologue: You Don t Have Jack xi SECTION ONE NOBODY S WORKING 1 Chapter 1 The Curse of the Overwhelmed 3 Chapter 2 It s Not Their Fault 7 Chapter 3 Tools of Our Tools 11 SECTION TWO FINDING FOCUS 19 Chapter 4 The Science of Attention 21 Chapter 5 Focus-Wise in the Age of Distraction 33 Chapter 6 The Four Elements of Focus 41 SECTION THREE FOCUS-WISE SPACE 47 Chapter 7 In Praise of Walls 49 Chapter 8 Office Space 57 Chapter 9 The Vault 67 SECTION FOUR FOCUS-WISE TECHNOLOGY 75 Chapter 10 Relationship Status: It s Complicated 77 Chapter 11 Message Undeliverable 83 Chapter 12 Free at Last 89 Chapter 13 Best Buddy or Big Brother? 97 SECTION FIVE FOCUS-WISE COMMUNICATION 105 Chapter 14 Can You Hear Me Now? 107 Chapter 15 Digital Communication: E-mail, Messaging, and Everything in Between 113 Chapter 16 Face to Face in a Facebook World 121 SECTION SIX FOCUS-WISE WORKDAY 131 Chapter 17 The Balance Myth 133 Chapter 18 Managing the Minutiae 145 Chapter 19 Can We Get an Extension? 153 SECTION SEVEN FOCUS-WISE LEADERSHIP 159 Chapter 20 The First Filter 161 Chapter 21 Individual to Institutional 169 Chapter 22 Filling the Digital Skill Gaps 177 Chapter 23 Competing with Zuckerberg 183 Chapter 24 After All, We re Here to Work 189 Chapter 25 The Focus-Wise Leader 195 About the Authors 203 Acknowledgments 205 Notes 209 Index 223