Improving Your Personal Productivity (1.25 Hours)*

Description

In this course, learners explore how to identify the people in an organization who help attain goals. Course participants learn the skills that maintain solid, mutually beneficial relationships to advance a career. The course covers the essential communication and professional networking skills needed to establish a solid network, including strategies for building rapport with new contacts during networking opportunities and best practices for maintaining a network so that business contacts can help with attainment of career goals. This course dives into the importance of managing relationships and ways to build effective relationships by recognizing agenda and management style. Finally, the course addresses strategies for building strong professional relationships with supervisors and for aligning with supervisors.

 CE Broker:
Approval Number: 20-867402
Provider Number: 50-31808

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Course Outline

Improving Your Personal Productivity – 1.25 Hours

Organize Your Physical and Digital Workspace

Organizing your physical and digital workspaces is a great way to be more productive. When you declutter your workspace, you can improve many aspects of your work day, including your ability to concentrate, achieve targets, and become more efficient. This course will help you increase your productivity by showing you how to organize and maintain both your physical and digital workspaces. You’ll learn the rewards of organizing your workspace and find out what a productive workspace looks like. You’ll learn how to use your organization skills to manage your digital workspace. And finally, you’ll find out how to make your new clutter-free life last by making organization a habit.

Avoid Procrastination by Getting Organized Instead

Procrastination reduces your productivity while causing you stress at the same time. Procrastinating is a habit that causes urgent and difficult tasks to pile up as you studiously avoid them. Developing and applying organization skills, you can declutter your schedule and avoid putting off work that demands your attention. In this course, you’ll learn about the reasons people procrastinate, and the benefits of organizing your time. You’ll learn how to build self-discipline and combat time wasters, as well as how to bring more organization to your day. And finally, you’ll explore how to set priorities and how to say no when you need to.

Maximize Your Productivity by Managing Time and Tasks

The amount of time available to you is constant – you can’t buy more and you can’t save it for later. However, by managing your time, you can increase your productivity. 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 how you can use task management to maximize your productivity. You’ll discover the benefits of using time management and assessing the value of your tasks. You’ll learn about benefits of setting goals and how productivity is tied to your ability to assess time and set priorities. And you’ll also learn about the process of “chunking” your time and how to use different types of to-do lists effectively.

Achieve Productivity in Your Personal Life

A busy personal life has a direct correlation to your productivity level at your job. By getting control of your productivity at home, you can improve your productivity work too, 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 learn how to prepare for trips, plan personal and household tasks, and become more organized as a parent. You’ll also explore tips for achieving an effective work/life balance and taking care of your personal health and well-being.