Personal Productivity
- 9 Courses | 3h 3m 31s
- 10 Books | 15h 40m
- 9 Audiobooks | 47h 44m 28s
Increase performance and productivity! Gain ideas for better organizing your physical and digital workspaces. Learn how a happier workforce can increase its productivity and help your business grow. Here, you'll find out how just a few changes can make a big difference.
COURSES INCLUDED
Set Your Workspace Up For Success
With professional lives getting increasingly busy, everyone needs help keeping up their levels of productivity. Being organized helps you get your work done right the first time, allowing you to be more efficient and more productive, which boosts your ability to achieve important goals in your career. In this course, you will explore effective methods of organizing your digital and physical workspaces to aid productivity. You will learn about tools that can help simplify and automate common tasks. In addition, you will discover effective techniques to organize your work life and cement your efforts at self-discipline.
6 videos |
26m
Assessment
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Get Organized and Stop Procrastinating
Ever caught yourself mindlessly scrolling through social media despite having a pending task at hand? Do you get tempted to put off a difficult task? Then, like most professionals, you are exhibiting symptoms of procrastination, infamous for decreasing productivity in the workplace. In this course, you will learn to identify procrastination's root causes. You'll explore techniques to help you overcome procrastination and ways to strengthen your prioritization skills so you can stay on schedule. You'll also learn methods for resisting distractions that lead to procrastination.
6 videos |
22m
Assessment
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Be Productive by Working Efficiently
Regardless of our own unique jobs and lives, we are all bound by time. It never stops and you can never get it back. Most professionals suffer from the constant and gripping fear of not having enough time. Managing time and tasks poorly can create more stress. In this course, you will learn strategies that help you manage your time efficiently and ensure that it is aligned with your goals. You will learn to assess the value of your tasks and how you can block time according to the priority of each task. You will also learn to create effective to-do lists and schedules that will help improve productivity.
6 videos |
23m
Assessment
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How to Get Out of Your Own Way and Achieve Success
What stands between you and success? People who are the best they can be are empowered by a belief that throughout their lives and careers, within their organizations and in their relationships, they can take action to improve their current state. They see themselves as responsible for their own happiness and success. In this course, you'll learn principles and characteristics shared by people who have broken through the barriers holding them back from true success. You'll discover how to identify those barriers - as well as your own personal triggers and mental blocks - and overcome them. You'll also learn strategies to jumpstart your work mindset and to advocate for yourself to get you out of your own way and on a path to success.
7 videos |
25m
Assessment
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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.
7 videos |
17m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
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.
7 videos |
19m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
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.
6 videos |
14m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Procrastination: Admitting it is the First Step
Procrastinating can be a big obstacle to efficient time management. The good news is that there are ways to overcome a tendency to procrastinate. The trick is to figure out what your own personal reason is for putting off what you know you need to do. In this course, you'll discover what may be behind your tendency to procrastinate by learning the indicators. Then you'll explore many helpful techniques and strategies for dealing with procrastination and improving efficiency. There are four key areas covered in this course: improving focus, increasing self-motivation, taking action, and improving your ability to organize.
6 videos |
17m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Beat Procrastination by Boosting Your Creativity and Drive
Everyone could benefit from a boost in creativity. Whether you're in marketing and advertising, management, or software development, all professionals need to be able to come up with original ideas and think outside the box every now and then. But sometimes the pressure to think creatively is the very thing that blocks the flow of fresh ideas and results in the type of procrastination that is an obstacle to efficient time management. This course focuses on the relationship between procrastinating and creativity. You'll learn about how the optimal amount of procrastination actually boosts creativity and efficiency. You'll also learn how to use creativity boosters to help you past those times when you procrastinate a little too much.
6 videos |
16m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
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Digital badges are yours to keep, forever.BOOKS INCLUDED
BOOK SUMMARY
Five Keys to Powerful Business Relationships: How to Become More Productive, Effective and InfluentialThe Five Keys to Powerful Business Relationships thoroughly illuminates the skills you need to create, maintain, and nurture relationships through reflection, communication, and sincerity. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
11m
By Joseph Sperry, Sallie Sherman, Steve Vucelich
BOOK SUMMARY
Make Your Brain Work: How to Maximize Your Efficiency, Productivity and EffectivenessMake Your Brain Work shows how neuroscience is helping us better understand how our brain functions so that we can become more productive in our professional and personal lives. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
10m
By Amy Brann
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The Conscious Leader: Nine Principles and Practices to Create a Wide-Awake and Productive WorkplaceThrough the application of psychology, The Conscious Leader seeks to reduce suffering in the workplace as leaders become conscious of their idiosyncrasies and the reasons behind them. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
10m
By Shelley Reciniello
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The Productivity Habits: A Simple Approach to Become More ProductivePacked full of tips, hints, diagrams and anecdotes, this book offers a tool to help turn ideas into action, make the best use of time, make decisions more quickly, manage projects, achieve goals or just get tasks done.
1h 27m
By Ben Elijah
Book
The Daily Edge: Simple Strategies to Increase Efficiency and Make an Impact Every DayIntroducing 35 high-impact ideas in succinct, quick-read chapters, this book will show you how it's possible to get more done, keep your energy up, and make sure that you're able to honor all your relationships, both personal and professional.
53m
By David Horsager
Book
Find Your Balance Point: Clarify Your Priorities, Simplify Your Life, and Achieve MoreEveryone today has too much to do and too little time-that's not going to change. This book will help you feel less stressed, but you'll accomplish more, and more efficiently, than you ever thought possible.
1h 16m
By Brian Tracy, Christina Stein
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Get Things Done: What Stops Smart People Achieving More and How You Can ChangeExplaining how to defeat the obstacles that stop us from achieving more in our everyday lives, this practical book helps us examine why we might have these tendencies and how to overcome them in order to feel more together, in control and on-top of everything.
3h 14m
By Robert Kelsey
Book
The Little Book of Clarity: A Quick Guide to Focus and Declutter Your MindWithout vague theory or superfluous anecdotes, this book shows you how to reduce stress and boost productivity by uncovering your mind's in-built "self-clearing" capacity. Learn how to cut the noise and clear the fog, and start working on what matters to you.
1h 54m
By Jamie Smart
Book
Make Your Brain Work: How to Maximize Your Efficiency, Productivity and EffectivenessUsing the latest insights from neuroscience about how our mind works and what really makes us tick, this practical, non-technical book explains how to be more effective in the workplace and to get maximum impact from minimum effort.
4h 30m
By Amy Brann
Book
The Now Habit at Work: Perform Optimally, Maintain Focus, and Ignite Motivation in Yourself and OthersFilled with practical examples that are thoroughly tested and easy to implement, this hands-on guide provides tools, tips and strategies that will have you increasing your mindfulness while reforming old habits and reducing your stress.
1h 55m
By Neil A. Fiore
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
The Productivity Habits: A Simple Approach to Become More ProductiveThe Productivity Habits shows you how to correctly categorize information, ideas, and tasks, and provides tools that help to guide productivity and ensure that your time is fully optimized. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
17m 18s
By Ben Elijah
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary ProductivityThe 5 Choices offers real and actionable steps to supercharge your productivity, and revolutionizes the concept of time management. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
13m 37s
By Adam Merrill, Kory Kogon, Leena Rinne
Audiobook
The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important GoalsThis audio edition presents a simple, repeatable, and proven formula for executing on your most important strategic priorities in the midst of the day-to-day whirlwind. Read by the authors.
7h 37m 5s
By Chris McChesney, Jim Huling, Sean Covey
Audiobook
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal ChangeThis audio edition presents a principle-focused approach to problem-solving, and offers a revolutionary program to breaking the patterns of self-defeating behavior that keep us from achieving our goals and reaching our fullest potential. Read by the author.
13h 53s
By Stephen R. Covey
Audiobook
Getting Organized in the Google Era: How to Get Stuff out of Your Head, Find It When You Need It, and Get It Done RightThis audio edition draws on the authors' intimate knowledge of how the brain works to help us develop fresh, innovative, and flexible systems of organization tailored to our individual goals, constraints, and lifestyles. Read by the author.
7h 35m 14s
By Douglas C. Merrill, James A. Martin
Audiobook
Maximize Your Potential: Grow Your Expertise, Take Bold Risks & Build an Incredible CareerThis audio edition will show you how to generate new opportunities, cultivate your creative expertise, build valuable relationships, and take bold, new risks so that you can utilize your talents to the fullest.
3h 32m 26s
By Jocelyn K. Glei
Audiobook
The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human PerformanceThis audio edition decodes the mystery of ultimate human performance, explaining how athletes are using "flow" to do the impossible and how we can use this information to radically accelerate performance in our own lives.
9h 23m 2s
By Steven Kotler
Audiobook
Singletasking: Get More Done - One Thing at a TimeThis audio edition explains exactly how to clear and calm your mind, arrange your schedule and environment, and gently yet firmly manage the expectations of people around you so that you can accomplish a succession of tasks, one by one¡ªand be infinitely more productive.
2h 52m 43s
By Devora Zack
Audiobook
Focus: Achieving Your Highest PrioritiesThis audio edition presents a fun and inspirational time management process that can-and will-change your life in ways you could never imagine possible.
3h 12m 10s
By Stephen R. Covey
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