Personal Efficiency Program

How to Stop Feeling Overwhelmed and Win Back Control of Your Work!

By: Kerry Gleeson

Narrated by: Erik Synnesvetd

Length: 7 hrs and 23 mins

Publisher's summary

More than one million people worldwide are getting their work done and improving the way they feel at work thanks to Kerry Gleeson's revolutionary program, The Personal Efficiency Program. Now, it's your turn.

Find out how to get organized, navigate technologies like portable communication devices and e-mail, run a no-nonsense meeting, juggle all the players in the new global business environment, and carve out more time to do what you really want to do. We all struggle to balance work life and personal life; this audiobook will help you work more quickly and efficiently, freeing time for you to fulfill your other duties as a parent, a spouse, or a friend.

This updated Fourth Edition of the ultimate labor-saving, stress-busting, career-boosting guide helps you take complete control of every challenge and chore you face at work. Revised and retooled to address the evolving demands of the modern workplace, it shows you how to:

Learn to organize yourself to act.

Stop feeling overwhelmed and free yourself from stress.

Get things done with the least amount of effort.

End e-mail overload.

Are your meetings a waste of time? Make them effective and efficient!

Spend less time at the office and more time kicking up your heels.

©2009 Kerry Gleeson (P)2009 Gildan Media Corp

excellent practical approach

I loved this audio book. its all about how to develop good habits that lead to personal efficiency.

I've used it as a complete listening course with my subordinates and results almost immediate.

excellent piece of work, thanks.

Work at it's finest

The strategies and tactics in this book are excellent. You can easily adapt them to any situation - digital or paper based. I bought 20 copies for my team. Read it and do it now!

Great ideas!

I really enjoyed the book. The ideas were not necessarily new, but they were stated in such a way that it reminds you how simple it is to make positive improvements . It’s already been working for me.

Good Tips For Leveraging Today's Technology

Mr. Gleeson covers some tried and true approaches, and isn't afraid to mention the other authors whose work is consistent with his perspective. I like this, and I like his references to those similarities. What I like most, however, is the fact that he as updated his recommendations with approaches that describe how today's technologies -- e.g., PDA's, PIMs, web based tools -- can be used to help you be more effective. He has a chapter focused on how not to be overwhelmed by email! And another on using electronic task lists and journals. I have read many many books on prioritizing and organizing work so that I can be more effective, but this is the first one that has really talked about how to use the technology to help, and it doesn't require that you buy a tool developed by them.

The book is well organized and comprehensive. Mr. Gleeson provides easy to follow lists of instructions for how to implement the suggestions. There is also a very short executive summary of the book, and an overview of each chapter to describe what will discussed.

One point that I found slightly irritating -- the author starts out pumping his service,and descriptions of he work they have done with companies are peppered unnecessarily throughout the book.

Overall -- good book, good tips, love the technology focus!

Excellent. Many great ideas.

I must listen to it again. This book is packed with great tips and ideas. I'm certain I missed a bunch with just one listening. Another reviewer mentioned it was a "commercial?" He/She must not have listened past the first few minutes where the author offers jobs to folks who learn and understand these great concepts. I highly recommend this book to folks who want to make the best use of their precious time.

Good Points, But Just A Sales Pitch

Any additional comments?

They make good points in this book, however I found it mostly a sales pitch for their organizing program and I'm not keen on paying to buy a commercial.

Painful!

Not an easy listen...actually painful, not to mention boring, dry, and void of anything fresh or inspirational.