This session was presented at the 2015 ASAE Annual Meeting with KiKi L'Italien. All of us are bombarded with things to do every day. Getting those things under control to reduce stress and help provide work-life balance is important for everyone. We provide tips and tricks and tools to help increase your productivity.

1. Power Tools: Hacking Your
Way to Productivity
Monday, August 1, 2015
9:00 am – 10:00 am
KiKi L’Italien, Amplified Growth
Scott Oser, Scott Oser Associates

3. In 2010, 46 percent of working men and women
reported that their job demands interfered with
their family life sometimes or often, up from 41
percent in 2002. In contrast, less than 30 percent
report that their family interferes with their work
life.
(June 2014 - The Council of Economic Advisers for
the White House)

4. •Half of all American workers no longer take their
vacations due to fear of something bad happening
while they are gone for more than a day.
(August 2014 - Forbes)
•Workers in the U.S. now log 1,788 hours of work
per year, besting the Germans (1,388), the French
(1,489 hours), and even the Japanese (1,735).
(Organisation for Economic Co-operation and
Development's Better Life Index website)

5. •Nearly 30 percent of us (Americans) work
weekends
(Sept 2014 - Hamermesh and Stancanelli)
•More than a quarter of Americans toil away after
10 p.m.
(Sept 2014 - Hamermesh and Stancanelli)

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12. Managing Email

13. FollowUp.cc

14. Unroll.Me
• Identifies your subscription emails and lists them for you
in one email once a day
• Unsubscribe from junk emails with one click.
• Combine favorite subscriptions into one daily digest

15. The Email Game

16. Managing Workload

17. Pomodoro Technique
• Project based
• 25 minutes (Pomodoro) on, 5 minute break
• Every 100 minutes take a 15 minute break
• Track # of times got distracted during each 25 minute
Pomodoro

18. RescueTime
• Detailed reports show which
applications and websites you spent
time on
• Weekly email summary
• Set weekly goals
• Set timers for websites

19. Delegation
• Keep team better organized/centralized communication
• Assign tasks
• Set notifications/reminders
• Track workflow/progress
• Status always available

20. Managing Schedule

21. ScheduleOnce & Doodle
• Multiple users
• Calendar integration
• Offer multiple appointment options

22. Task Management
• Create tasks, subtasks (one time or recurring)
• Manage start dates and deadlines
• Set alerts/reminders
• Prioritize by importance or by date
• Sync across devices and apps (Swipes/Evernote)
Swipes

23. Stickk
• Free goal-setting platform created by
behavioral economists at Yale
University
• Empirically proven to increase people’s
chances of success by up to 3x

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29. • Capture
• Clarify
• Organize
• Reflect
• Engage

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31. Contact Us
KiKi L’Italien
President
Amplified Growth
kiki@amplifiedgrowth.net
@kikilitalien
Scott Oser
President
Scott Oser Associates
scott@scottoserassociates.com
@scottoser