893: How to Help Your Team Beat Distraction and Unleash Their Productivity with Maura Thomas

Maura Thomas shows you how to create a distraction-free work environment to make time for the tasks that matter most.  — YOU’LL LEARN —  1) The underlying cause of derailed productivity.  2) How multitasking hurts your productivity and attention.  3) The two questions that will help you eliminate distractions.  Subscribe or visit AwesomeAtYourJob.com/ep893 for clickable versions of the links below.  — ABOUT MAURA —  Maura Nevel Thomas is an award-winning international speaker and trainer on individual and corporate productivity and work-life balance, and the most widely-cited authority on attention management. Her proprietary Empowered Productivity™ System has been embraced by the likes of NASA, Dyson, and Google. She is a TEDx Speaker, founder of Regain Your Time, author of six bestselling books, and was named a Top Leadership Speaker in Inc. Magazine.  Maura is frequently featured in major business outlets including Business Insider, Fast Company, and Washington Post, and she’s also a regular contributor to both Forbes and the Harvard Business Review, with articles there viewed over a million times.  • Book: Attention Management: How to Create Success and Gain Productivity ― Every Day (Empowered Productivity, 1)  • Book: Everyone Wants to Work Here: Attract the Best Talent, Energize Your Team, and Be the Leader in Your Market (Empowered Productivity)  • Forbes article: "Why Leaders Should Want Their Employees To Quiet Quit"  • Website: MauraThomas.com  — RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —  • App: Blinkist  • App: Todoist  • App: Twist  • Book: The Gift of Fear: And Other Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker  • Book: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill  • Book: Younger Next Year: Live Strong, Fit, and Sexy - Until You're 80 and Beyond by Chris Crowley and Henry Lodge  • Company: Doist  • Personality: Frank Kick  • Personality: Gloria Mark  — THANK YOU, SPONSORS! —  • Factor. Get healthy, quick, delicious meals at factormeals.com/beawesome50. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.