Productive Reading Strategies - Organizing and Tackling Your Reading Pile

by Laura Stack

Do you have too much to read and too little time? You'll benefit from these reading techniques, designed to boost your reading productivity! Getting through your reading tasks more quickly will free up time for other priorities. You'll learn from Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, how to:

• Apply a five-step process to help you become a more efficient reader.
• Recognize signs of brain overload and get your mind focused again.
• Get absorbed in your reading and achieve a state of ""flow.""
• Find some alternatives to reading.
• Organize your reading and tackle the pile.

If you apply these five simple reading techniques, you will greatly improve your concentration, speed, and retention. You will also have the upper hand by staying on top of important information in today's highly competitive work environment.

32 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 25, 2011

About the author

Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, CPAE, is best known by her moniker “The Productivity Pro®.” Stack is an award-winning keynote speaker, bestselling author, and noted authority on sales, leadership, and team productivity. She is the President & CEO of The Productivity Pro, Inc., a boutique consulting firm helping leaders increase workplace performance in high-stress environments.

For over 30 years, Laura Stack’s keynote speeches and seminars have helped associations and Fortune 1000 corporations improve output, increase speed in execution, and save time in the office. She is a high-energy, high-content speaker, who educates, entertains, and motivates professionals to deliver bottom-line results. Stack is a member of the prestigious CPAE Speaker Hall of Fame, which has fewer than 200 members worldwide). She has earned the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation from the National Speakers Association, of which she was its president in 2011-2012.

Laura Stack is the bestselling author of nine books published by Random House, Wiley, and Berrett-Koehler, including her newest, The Dangerous Truth About Today’s Marijuana: Johnny Stack’s Life and Death Story (Freiling, July 2021). Her books have been published in more than 20 foreign editions, and she is a featured columnist for the American Business Journal, LinkedIn, Time Management, and Productive magazines. Stack has produced more than 50 online productivity training programs.

Laura Stack has been featured nationally on the CBS Early Show, CNN, NPR, Bloomberg, the New York Times, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, and Forbes magazine. Stack has been a spokesperson for Fellowes, Microsoft, 3M, Skillsoft, Office Depot, Day-Timer, and Xerox. Her client list includes top Fortune 500 companies, including Starbucks, Wal-Mart, Aramark, Bank of America, GM, Wells Fargo, and Time Warner, plus government agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service, the United States Air Force Academy, the Census Bureau, the U.S. Senate, and the Department of Defense.

Reviews

[Cory · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nice quick read on, well, reading. The useful: Laura Stack expertly takes the snippets of advice we all know - set time aside to read, watch your posture, etc - and organizes them into a complementary pair of easy-to-remember 5 steps and 5 techniques to get through your magazines, books, and other wordy miscellany. The less useful: the author spends a few paragraphs recommending audiobooks, but - oddly for an ebook - otherwise largely ignores digital reading materials.

[Tom Panning · Rating 2 out of 5]

A quick read, with a few good tips on focus (getting into flow states, meditation-related exercises) and managing the reading pile. Considering it is an ebook, it really didn't have tips for managing ebooks and online articles.