Improve your productivity, get things done, and find more time for what's most important. Get new time management tips from this series.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Power tips for sending email
- Reduce interruptions with 1:1 meetings
- Positive procrastination
- Set voicemail and email expectations
- How to deal with feeling overwhelmed
- Make the most of an inbox and outbox
- Remove the "busy" tag
- How to respond to quick questions
- Follow through on your commitments
- Fight negative procrastination
- Ergonomics' impact on productivity
- Replace to-do lists with a schedule
- Establish boundaries in open workspaces
- Manage digital interruptions
- Find your productivity rhythm
- Craft a visually productive workspace
- Use background tasking to get more done
- Make the most of meetings
- Participate wisely in social media
- Follow up on delegated items
- Overcome opportunity addiction
- Make sound your productivity ally
- Embrace the power of doing nothing
- Implement a closed door, open calendar policy
- Become tech savvy
- The two most important hours of your day
- Make investments to gain time
- Maximize your energy each day
- Focus on the person
- Use your email archive effectively
- How snacks and scents affect productivity
- Stay engaged in video meetings
- Embrace harmless distractions
- Find focus in an interruption-heavy environment
- How to check email and still stay focused
- Manage time before and after vacations
- Handling tasks that take too long
- Using quarterly planning for maximum benefit
- Clearing your mind with note-taking apps
- Overcoming analysis paralysis
- Protecting your processing time
- Time management for moms and dads
- Efficiently setting appointments with others
- Creating your digital-free zone
- Prioritizing your work to free up time
- Understanding virtual assistants
- Regaining focus with reminders
- Getting the most from learning opportunities
- Power tips for frequent travelers
- Staying engaged in conference calls
- Building transition time into your day
- Increasing follow-through by making yourself accountable
- Time management for students
- Handling the inefficiency of others
- Time management for managers and leaders
- Making the most of extra time
- When work and personal matters collide
- Time management for assistants and gatekeepers
- Avoiding less valuable activities
- Ending meetings with action
- Establishing a productive daily routine
- Time management for working in teams
- Setting achievable expectations
- Tips for bill-by-the-hour professionals
- Helping others improve their time management
- Make the most of your commute
- How to handle interruptive ideas
- Dealing with overlapping responsibilities
- Stop coworkers from encroaching on personal time
- Organizing and using stacking trays
- How to avoid unnecessary meetings
- How to deal with a reading pile
- Handling unexpectedly long tasks
- Processing long projects with many steps
- Connecting personal values to productivity
- Building a not-to-do list
- Putting news in its proper place
- Making peace with the truth of time
- Avoiding the crowd mindset
- Placing a value on your time
- Celebrating success for improvement
- Exploring the weekly planning session
- Coordinating family schedules
- Tracking your daily activity
- How to schedule a meeting
- Prioritizing learning opportunities
- Finding your optimal break cycle
- How to develop flexibility
- The trouble with texting
- Yearly planning to support goals
- Create a perhaps list
- How to deal with incomplete tasks
- Reduce attention switches
- When to fix, and when not to fix, a problem
- Make time to build relationships
- How to take notes productively
- Time management fundamentals at home
- How to cultivate more patience
- Adapt your favorite app
- Make time to get more time
- Read vs. unread email
- Use typing shortcuts to save time
- Work across multiple time zones
- Make time to have fun
- Set boundaries with your smartphone
- Make phone calls more productive
- Prepare your schedule for emergencies
- Tips for the paperless office
- Create a nightly ritual for sleep
- Create a morning ritual
- Help others keep appointments with you
- Get your time management back on track
- Meetings and conversations that run long
- When to create new homes
- Negotiate deadlines with coworkers
- Take responsibility for finding answers
- Stop perfectionism from hurting productivity
- What to do with business cards
- Manage the rate of communication
- Share email with a team member
- When and how to use video in email
- How to reduce spam
- Why repetition saves time
- How to be prepared for anything
- How to shake off negative experiences
- When someone doesn't respond to your email
- What to do when appointments are cancelled
- How to leave an effective voicemail message
- Gambling with time for profit and fun
- When others fail to keep their commitments
- How being kind improves productivity
- What to do about unsolicited phone calls
- What to do when someone is multitasking on you
- How to deal with feeling overwhelmed
- What to do when major life events occur
- Productive passwords
- Productive web browser tips
- Using reply to all and carbon copy
- Writing a productive email
- What to do before sending an email
- Understanding why you procrastinate
- Use your calendar to stop procrastination
- Use positive procrastination
- Commit to your calendar
- What to say instead of ASAP
- Set voicemail expectations
- Set email expectations
- How to use an inbox
- How to use an outbox
- Dealing with distracting coworkers
- How to stop ignoring recurring reminder
Taught by
Dave Crenshaw
