Professional Effectiveness
Improving Your Personal Productivity
Achieve Productivity in Your Personal Life
Avoid Procrastination by Getting Organized Instead
Maximize Your Productivity by Managing Time and Tasks

Achieve Productivity in Your Personal Life

Course Number:
pd_32_a04_bs_enus
Lesson Objectives

Achieve Productivity in Your Personal Life

  • identify tips to help you to get yourself and your family out the door on time
  • select tips that help you manage time when you're on the go
  • identify tips that aid you in organizing personal and household tasks
  • choose actions that help you to organize your parental responsibilities
  • identify actions that help you maintain your health and well-being

Overview/Description
A busy personal life has a direct correlation to your productivity level at your job. Get control of your tasks at home and that will help your productivity level at work, making you better able to stick to schedules and meet deadlines by reducing the stress and distractions that come from trying to juggle home and work at the same time. In this course, you’ll explore some tips for getting yourself and your family out the door in the morning, as well as managing areas of your life such as personal appointments, personal organization, parental responsibilities, and your personal health and well-being.

Target Audience
Individuals wishing to improve their productivity in the workplace

Avoid Procrastination by Getting Organized Instead

Course Number:
pd_32_a02_bs_enus
Lesson Objectives

Avoid Procrastination by Getting Organized Instead

  • recognize the benefits of overcoming procrastination
  • recognize the causes of workplace procrastination
  • recognize ways to develop discipline in a given scenario
  • match the actions to take to combat time wasters
  • recognize how to set priorities and keep focused
  • identify ways to say "no" and avoid overcommitment

Overview/Description
The last time you were faced with a list of tasks, which one did you do first? Was it the most difficult? Was it a random choice, or did you choose the easiest task first? The latter points toward procrastination – a habit that causes urgent and difficult tasks to pile up as you avoid them. Procrastinators typically focus on the reasons not to do something, rather than just doing it. Don't think about working more hours, think about working better hours. Use your time to get organized and avoid procrastination. In this course, you'll discover some tips to become more organized and combat time wasters. You'll learn about the causes of procrastination, and the ways to develop your self-discipline. You'll also learn how to set your priorities and know when to say yes to a new task and when to say no.

Target Audience
Individuals wishing to improve their productivity in the workplace

Maximize Your Productivity by Managing Time and Tasks

Course Number:
pd_32_a03_bs_enus
Lesson Objectives

Maximize Your Productivity by Managing Time and Tasks

  • sequence the steps for assessing the time and value of your tasks
  • match the types of tasks that belong in four priority categories
  • recognize how to chunk your time
  • recognize the basic principles of scheduling
  • recognize what an effective to-do list looks like
  • analyze the use of a to-do list in a given scenario

Overview/Description
The amount of time available to you is constant – you can't buy more and you can't save it for later. What you can do is increase your productivity – the value you produce in the time you have. And the better you understand your own personal productivity, the easier it will be to manage your time effectively. In this course, you'll learn about managing tasks in a way that maximizes your productivity. You'll discover the benefits of setting goals and how productivity is tied to your ability to assess time and set priorities. You'll learn about the process of "chunking" your time and the principles of efficient scheduling. You'll also learn about the different types of to-do lists and how to use them effectively.

Target Audience
Individuals wishing to improve their productivity in the workplace

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