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Practical Time Management - Personal Productivity Tools
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Time management tools that will improve your productivity and work and life satisfaction

Summary

Price
£19 inc VAT
Study method
Online, On Demand
Duration
1.9 hours · Self-paced
Qualification
No formal qualification
Certificates
  • Reed Courses Certificate of Completion - Free

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Overview

Time is precious. You can earn more money, but you will never get more time. Managing your time is managing your life. This course will help you take your time management skills to the next level.

Today, people have problems with ever-growing lists of tasks that seem to have no end. They multitask. Their life is filled with distractions, from office noise, through emails and chat, to social media and news. In the end, they blame themselves for procrastination and the inability to work regularly. In all this, they usually do their best to get stuff done and also help their colleagues.

This course will help you with those issues. You will be more productive and find a balance between achieving your goals, relationships, leisure, and creative time.

It is the essence of over 40 books, ten years of practice, and feedback from over 2000 students - online and offline.

If you want to know the core of "Getting Things Done," "Essentialism", "The power of habit", "Your brain at work," and many more and how they fit together - this course is for you. All comes from a teacher passionate about the topic, who has over 10 years of experience in large corporations and smaller companies and spent over 6 years in learning and development.

Certificates

Reed Courses Certificate of Completion

Digital certificate - Included

Will be downloadable when all lectures have been completed.

Curriculum

7
sections
31
lectures
1h 55m
total

    • 1: 1_Welcome and how to use this course 02:46
    • 2: 3_You are not a robot 03:10

    • 3: 4_Levels of information processing 04:46
    • 4: 5_How habits are formed (and how to help it) 03:31
    • 5: 6_The role of Urgency 02:31
    • 6: 7 _The curse of Open Loops. How hormones take control- 03:40
    • 7: 8_A new look on the Eisenhower matrix 03:34
    • 8: Summary of "How our brain functions" 03:00

    • 9: 9_Get it out of your head - and why you should 03:08
    • 10: 10_List of useful apps and plugins (free and paid) 03:45
    • 11: 11_Effective list segmentation 04:16
    • 12: 12_Breaking down projects 03:50
    • 13: 13_Clarifying the goal 03:59
    • 14: Summary of "Effective task list and its real role" 04:00

    • 15: 14_Task list vs Calendar 04:02
    • 16: 15_List of useful apps (free and paid) 02:10
    • 17: 16_Calendar layers 02:49
    • 18: 17_Useful calendar integrations 04:51
    • 19: 18_High focus blocks 02:46
    • 20: Summary of "Best Calendar Practices" 04:00

    • 21: 19_The anatomy of focus 04:21
    • 22: 20_7 sources of distractions 04:27
    • 23: 21_Working in blocks and Pomodoro Technique® 03:42
    • 24: 22_Useful apps and plugins 04:19
    • 25: 23_Coping with office distractions 05:04
    • 26: Summary of "Focus and Distractions" 04:00

    • 27: 24_Daily planning strategies 04:45
    • 28: 25_Weekly planning strategies 04:55
    • 29: 26_Energy level management 03:22
    • 30: Summary of "putting it all together" 01:00

    • 31: 27_How to waste this course 03:32

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Description

I believe this is a missing piece in our education system, so we will learn:

  • How our brain functions and why we sometimes need lists. Also, how to form sustainable, long-term habits.

  • 4 common mistakes that people make with their task lists and how to solve them.

  • 7 strategies to overcome distractions.

  • Over 30 best apps and plugins that support everyday organization.

  • How to effectively plan our days in under 5 minutes.

  • How to effectively prioritize in the short-term, mid-term, and long-term.

When you finish the course, you will:

  • Be able to stay organized, even with changing priorities and distractions - this will lower your stress and give you the feeling of control.

  • Be more effective and have more time and energy for things that are important to you - family, friends, hobby, development, leisure.

  • Be able to focus on what is the most important and make progress

  • Be able to understand various time management techniques and how they fit together.

  • Be able to create your own productivity system that fits your personal style and way of living - this will help you live your own way instead of copying others and wasting your time on things that won't work.

You will also:

  • Be much more focused and feel better about work satisfaction.

  • Have much better prioritization skills and more easily say "no" to less important things.

  • Spend less time on distractions, social media, and multitasking.

Who is this course for?

This course is for professionals who want to organize the chaos and have better work satisfaction while having more time for family, friends, hobbies, development, and relaxation.

This course is not for highly organized people who successfully implemented GTD - they need an advanced course. This course is also not for people who hate organizing because we will have to give some structure to our tasks and projects. If you hate organizing, you will quickly get tired.

Requirements

No prior knowledge is required. However, some experience with paper or electronic calendars and task lists would help.

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