WORK SIMPLY

Most productivity solutions are one-size-fits-all, but not everyone does their best work in the same way. Here Tate outlines four different productivity styles, provides invaluable tools and tactics for adapting your day to fit your individual style of working, and shows how you can use knowledge of these styles to work more effectively with bosses, colleagues, and employees.

Getting Things Done, The Pomodoro Technique, 43 Folders: These stringent productivity solutions might work for some, but not for all. What if your brain just doesn’t work that way? Ever feel like you spend more time managing your productivity system than doing actual work?

Carson Tate has worked with thousands of people, from professionals and corporate managers to entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, government officials, and busy homemakers and parents, to help them better manage their time and be more productive. Out of that work she developed a unique new assessment tool to help the millions of us who just can’t find all the time we need. In a Productivity Style Assessment readers discover their individual productivity type: Prioritizer, Planner, Arranger, or Visualizer. The Prioritizer sees the big picture and wants to know why, while the Planner wants deadlines and details. The Arranger is sensitive to the needs of others and makes decisions intuitively, and the Visualizer thinks holistically and can integrate disparate ideas into one cohesive whole.

WORK SIMPLY not only allows readers to find their own style, but it also helps them determine the styles of their colleagues. Recognizing differences in productivity styles helps people understand why, for example, it’s more effective to email a Planner but to deliver that same message in person to an Arranger.

Carson Tate is founder and principal of Working Simply. Her mission is partnering with clients to bring productivity with passion back to the workplace. Tate also serves as a consultant, coach, and trainer to executives at Fortune 500 companies including Deloitte, Wells Fargo, and Coca-Cola Consolidated Bottling Company. She is a nationally renowned expert on workplace productivity whose views have been included in top-tier business media including Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Forbes, Fast Company, The New York Times, and more.