Prioritizing Tasks and Managing Time for Greater Productivity

By Jason Alba
This course helps you gain productivity by learning time management and prioritization techniques and systems that you can actually use. Learn easy-to-implement ideas and concepts to change how, and even when, you work.
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Rating
(176)
Level
Beginner
Updated
Dec 31, 2015
Duration
1h 56m
Table of contents
Course Overview
Course Overview 2m
Introducing Core Time Management Fundamentals
Introduction 1m Course Overview 2m Time Management vs. You 2m At the Heart of Time Management 2m Redefining Work 3m Managing Expectations 5m Saying No 5m Becoming a Finisher 2m Multitasking: Friend or Foe? 5m Effective Calendaring 2m Managing Distracting Tools 2m Distractions: From a Right to a Reward 2m Wrap-up 2m
Benefiting from the Power of Prioritizing
Introduction 1m Aligning Priorities 3m Covey's Four Quadrants 5m Step 1: Create the List 2m Step 2: Define Factors 4m Step 3: Assigning Priorities 6m Step 4: Get to Work! 2m Troubleshooting To-do Lists 3m Revisiting Covey's Four Quadrants 3m Priorities vs. Flexibility 3m When Everything Is a Top Priority 2m Wrap-up 2m
Becoming More Productive: Prioritizing + Managing Time
Introduction 1m Review of Tactics 2m Inspiration from a Productivity Machine 5m Understanding Productivity 4m Defining Goals and Objectives 2m Do the Right Work at the Right Time 3m Hacking Your Body and Brain to Be More Productive 5m Are You Doing Work Worthy of Your Rate? 3m 80/20 and Working on the Right Tasks 2m Mark LeBlanc's Daily HVAs 3m How to Be Flexible When Change Is Imminent 4m Log Time to Analyze What You Do 3m Quality-based Productivity: Do It Right the First Time 3m Planning: The Night Before, or in the Morning? 3m Wrap-up 3m
Description
Course info
Rating
(176)
Level
Beginner
Updated
Dec 31, 2015
Duration
1h 56m
Description

In this course, we talk about concepts and techniques of time management and prioritization, with the goal of increasing individual (and even team) productivity. We start with a good introduction to time management that helps us understand how to feel more in-control of our time and projects. Then, we talk about where we should spend our time, and how we can avoid doing things that are distracting us from our main priorities. When you implement even one of the many ideas from this course, you should see a considerable change in your productivity, and be on the path for more productivity enhancements.

About the author
Jason Alba
About the author

Jason Alba is founder of JibberJobber.com, an online relationship manager for professionals to manage their career and job search. Jason is the author of I’m on LinkedIn – Now What??? and coauthor of I’m on Facebook – Now What??? and specializes in helping professionals with career management, network, and personal branding.

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Section Introduction Transcripts
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Course Overview
Hi everyone, my name is Jason Alba. Welcome to my course Prioritizing Tasks and Managing Time for Greater Productivity. I run a website called jibberjobber. com, which is a software as a service model for job seekers and people who are passionate about networking. We're all interested in being a little more productive, right? Why is it that we try things to make us productive, but within a few weeks we're back to our same old habits? That's one of the challenges that we're going to address in this course. We'll talk about tactics to manage your time, tactics that you can really implement and actually use. We'll talk about prioritizing your tasks so that you are working on the most important highest return tasks first and moving away from working on things that you really shouldn't work on. The end result of these tactics is higher productivity. Implementing some of these tactics might give you marginal productivity improvements, but I've seen some of these tactics greatly increase the productivity of many people. By the end of this course, you'll know what you can do to greatly increase your own productivity. From there, continue your learning by diving into other soft skill courses like Becoming a Better Listener and How to Get Your Next Promotion. I hope you'll join me on this journey of improving your career and your productivity with the Prioritizing Tasks and Managing Time for Greater Productivity course at Pluralsight.

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