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New 21st Century Strategies for Productivity and Time Management

Other Online Certificates and Courses

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Time is even more valuable in this century than in the last. How effective you manage your time and productivity can affect your business and personal life in so many ways. You’ll get tips and techniques you won’t get anywhere else for managing time and increasing productivity. Whether you are managing your own time, or others’ time, come away with proven tips to put into practice on Monday morning.

Course Outline

Unit 1

Time and Productivity Management – Evaluation

Time Management Personal Quiz
Workday Analysis Exercise
Being Busy vs Producing Results

Unit 2

Challenges to Time Management and Productivity

Distractions and Interruptions
Concentration and Focus
Stress Management
New Technology and Productivity

Unit 3

Strategies and Tips to improve Time Management and Productivity

Workday Analysis
Planning and Prioritizing
Techniques and Methods
Action Program

Unit 4

Managing Your Time, Yourself and Others

Goal Setting
Self Motivation
Time Trackers
The 4-Hour Workweek

About online learning

Online learning is a fun, enjoyable and very productive way to learn. Millions of people are learning online each year. You will engage with the instructor and other participants. You will get to know your instructor and other participants. You may make friends. It’s easy. It’s fun.

Gears How the Course Works

It is easy to participate in your online course. After you register, you will be given a web address to go to get into your online classroom. You will have a password and use your email address and password to gain access.

Once inside the online classroom, here’s what you can expect.

Calendar Participate when you want

You can participate any time of day or evening. The online classroom is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
There are no live real-time requirements or meetings. You decide when you participate.
For the best learning, participants should log into the course on 2-3 different days of the week.

Checklist What you will do

For each Unit, you will:

Read the print readings (about 20 pages a week)
Have the option of accessing the online readings
Listen to the audio presentation for the Unit and view the slides
Have the option of taking a self-quiz to see how much you have learned
Engage in written online discussion with your instructor and other participants

For best learning, you should make one or more comments at 2-3 different times each week.
The content (readings, audio lectures, slides) and self quizzes are accessible for the entire course, so you can work ahead, or go back and review again, at your convenience.

Discussion

The Discussion for each Unit lasts one week. All comments are made in writing and can be made at any time of the day or night.

Your instructor will log into the Discussion area at least once a day and answer questions, make comments, and respond to comments by you and the other participants.

We encourage you to make 2-3 comments each week to maximize your learning and enjoyment of the course.

It’s easy. It’s fun.

Next offering(s):
-Next session coming soon-

$ USD

$195 USD

Ave. hours 16, 1.6 CEUs/ILUs

About Your Instructor

William A. Draves, CAE, has forty years’ experience in managing others in the workplace. He was one of the first businessmen to create a virtual office for his organization. Draves has twenty years’ of experience in managing from a distance people working both at home and in offices around the country. He researches, speaks and writes about productivity, and trains executives and managers in leadership and management.

Dr. Jennifer Selke is dedicated to helping people find jobs they love that best utilize their strengths and to helping companies engage workers for maximum impact and value. Teaching people how to apply their strengths to their productivity systems is a part of her coaching practice as she has a natural tendency to maximize her time by finding the best tool for the job. She has worked with a wide range of companies and organizations both large and small developing high-potential individuals to become the next generation of thought leaders.

What some students say:

"Great discussions with class and professor! Would highly recommend." -Patricia Gerken, Dover, DE

Course Objectives

To help students understand how the workplace of today demands different time management and productivity strategies
To provide students with practical, how to tips on improving time management and productivity
To give students a framework for improving both their own time management and productivity, and that of others
To provide a key knowledge set in managing others and career enhancement.

Course Outcomes

At the end of this course, you will:

Know how to assess and evaluate time and productivity for yourself and others in the workplace
Gain a set of knowledge skills with which to improve time management and productivity;
Have the understanding to use goal setting, planning and action strategies to improve productivity;
Know how to manage others time and productivity in the workplace.

Completion Requirements