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Productivity and Efficiency
In this course, Dr. Yvette Martinez-Vu guides learners through actionable strategies to decrease stress and boost productivity. She teaches effective methods to streamline workflows, manage stress, and cultivate habits that bolster resilience and continuous growth. By the end of this course, you will be able to develop personal strategies to increase your organization without becoming overwhelmed.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 42 minutes
Start E-course: How to Quiet Your Mind and Boost Productivity
Join world-renowned productivity and time management expert David Allen as he walks you through his five-step process for Getting Things Done®. He shows you how to stay on top of your work and avoid feeling buried by it, while carving out space in your life to do more meaningful things. Learn how to capture, clarify, organize, reflect, and engage with tasks that are demanding your attention, and come away with a clear head and a clear focus.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 30 minutes
Every day is a new beginning, with endless opportunities to successfully complete tasks. By starting each day with a productive mindset, you’re able to fully tap into your capabilities and accomplish your goals. In this course, Ali Schiller, performance management coach and entrepreneur, will unlock the secrets to starting each day with a productivity mindset. Perhaps you have a long to-do list that needs to get cleared, or you are managing multiple projects for competing stakeholders; maximize your daily efficiency and conquer your goals with these actionable strategies.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 25 minutes
Learn strategic time blocking with Nike Famojuro, a seasoned productivity consultant. This course teaches you how to design a flexible schedule that fits your lifestyle, making daily adherence a pleasure, not a chore. Nike provides effective tips to allocate time effectively for work, personal development, hobbies, or relaxation, transforming your time management skills. Say goodbye to feeling overwhelmed and embrace a new approach to scheduling.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 39 minutes
Start E-course: Transform Your Days with Strategic Time Blocking
In our hectic world, time management alone doesn't cut it. To truly increase your efficiency, it's crucial that you improve your focus as well as tend to your calendar. In this course, productivity expert and best-selling author Dave Crenshaw helps you develop the survival skills to both avoid daily distractions and stay focused on what's most valuable. Curate your digital and physical space to strengthen concentration, discover ways to keep your mind on task, and protect your relationships—both at work and at home—by focusing on what's most important.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 50 minutes
Time Management
What would you do if you had an extra 10 hours per week? Sounds impossible? In this course, productivity expert Dave Crenshaw shows you how to get more done in the shortest time possible and give you more of that precious free time. The course lays out the theoretical and practical foundations for being more productive and explains the obstacles that can get in the way. It then gives practical strategies for increasing productivity in three main areas: How to develop habits to be more organized and reduce the clutter in your workspace; how to stay mentally on task and eliminate the to-dos you have floating in your head; and how to develop a time budget to get the most done during your workday and focus on your most valuable activities. If you’ve been looking for strategies to help you manage your time more efficiently, this course may be well worth your time.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 1 hour 47 minutes
Feeling a sense of anxiety on a Sunday is a familiar feeling to many, starting when we’re kids and having to go back to school, to our lives as adults. Studies show over 80% of employees experience the “Sunday Scaries,” that feeling of dread that filters in as you realize the weekend is over and another work week is about to kick in. This course is based on research with successful executives on what they do on Sunday to make their week ahead more productive and successful. Each video in the course highlights a different habit that you can implement into your own Sunday routines. Habits include: borrowing an hour to get organized; creating mental space for the week ahead; setting cascading goals; and naming what it is that’s making you dread the week ahead to help break the power it holds over you.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 31 minutes
When it comes to time management strategies, one size does not fit all. To create your optimal workday, you must consider many factors, including the nature of your job, the level of interaction you have with others, and your personal preferences. In this course, productivity expert Dave Crenshaw expands upon the concepts covered in his other time management courses to help you boost your productivity by crafting a personalized approach to time management. Dave takes you through an assessment to discover your time management style and then shows how to adapt fundamental time management strategies to suit your unique needs. Plus, discover how to work productively with coworkers whose time management style differs from yours.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 1 hour 15 minutes
Prioritization Skills
When you know your priorities, you can make better and quicker decisions that will take your projects—and your career—to the next level. Mike Vardy, a seasoned productivity expert, shares his unique method of instantly unlocking productivity at work: by prioritizing tasks and working on the right things at the right time. Gain an understanding of what prioritization really means, how to really understand what's important, and how priorities create clarity. Additionally, you can learn to create an attention path that is meaningful to you—whether it's looking at goals, energy, activity, or time availability.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 48 minutes
Learn to prioritize your tasks efficiently and consistently. This short course from productivity expert Dave Crenshaw shows how to schedule your time in relation to what's most important and what will have the most significant impact on your work. Dave begins the course with an overview of his time value prioritization (TVP) philosophy. Next, he lays out a six-step process for determining how urgent a task is, how great an effect it will have, and whether it should be delegated to a colleague or automated through technology. Dave concludes the course with two quick walk-through examples, showing the TVP method in action. Using this innovative framework, you can get more done, more efficiently, while increasing the value of your time and saving more of it for the things you love.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 36 minutes
You probably have too much to do. Despite that, your friends, family, and coworkers still ask you to do more. Although you spend your day conquering your list of things to do, you find yourself struggling to make time for the projects that matter the most to you. In this course, Sam Bennett—best-selling author, successful entrepreneur, and expert in creativity and productivity—shows you how to make that time by learning the secrets of effective prioritization. Sam walks you through how to figure out what’s really an emergency and what can wait. She emphasizes concrete ways to put yourself first, including how to say that terrible, essential word, “No.” By the end of this course, you will understand how to protect your most important tasks and avoid getting overwhelmed.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 33 minutes
The key to enhancing your productivity is to build to-do lists that actually work. In this course, learn a new approach to creating to-do lists, find out how to better prioritize tasks, and discover proven day-to-day workflows to put into practice immediately. Join productivity expert Mike Vardy as he shares the anatomy of a to do, revealing what goes on a list and what doesn't go on a list. Mike also explains how to gauge your progress and how to create a process that keeps your attention. Plus, explore popular to-do list apps—and learn how to eliminate apps altogether and embrace paper.
LinkedIn Learning E-Course, 50 minutes
Getting Organized
You’ve probably heard it a thousand times: “Time is money.” But how can you capture all of that revenue when you feel constantly bogged down by disorganization and disruption? The steady barrage of technology, clutter, procrastination, and a never-ending to-do list of tasks—how can you ever hope to reach your potential when you can’t even control your time? Not to worry—in this course, join best-selling author and executive coach Dr. Don Gilman as he shows you how to make the most of your time by getting a grip on your time management workflow and lending structure to your work environment. Learn to use strategic-planning tools more effectively and with ease, delegating some of your work to others and managing that vicious beast: your dreaded email inbox. If you're ready to reach your goals and achieve peak performance, why wait when you can start today?
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 41 minutes
One of the biggest drains on time, money, and mental well-being is the time you spend working that is not focused on your actual work. Whether you’re in an office or working remotely, if your workspace and work routine are unorganized, you may constantly feel like you’re behind in your tasks. The time you spend organizing and cleaning up your workspace robs you of time you can spend completing your work, which just lengthens your workday. In this course, organization expert Amy Fritz teaches you how to organize your workspace and prepare your work environment to get the most done every day. From organizing your desk and managing your calendar, to managing your to-do list, Amy shows you how to stay organized. She also offers specialized advice for multitasking, maximizing break times, and ongoing maintenance for a perfect workspace.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 33 minutes
Start E-course: Staying Organized While Working Remotely or On-Site
Looking for an organizational system that fits your specific needs? Don’t just follow the trendiest new productivity hacks. In this course, adapted from the podcast How to Be Awesome at Your Job, join organization guru Julie Morgenstern as she discusses how to manage your time for greater productivity and build a system tailored to your needs. Julie goes over the importance of considering your goals and personality when designing your system. Figuring out what works best for you will ensure your system feels natural and functions optimally. Julie also covers how to troubleshoot your organizational systems in order to narrow down what’s working and what’s not, reclaim your creative time, keep your inbox from taking over your day, and more.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 23 minutes
Project Management
Almost everything you do in the workplace is a project, from the smallest task to the largest endeavor. All of this work can benefit from some basic project management skills. Once mastered, you will be able to transfer this valuable skillset to any project, of any size, in any industry. In this course, management trainer Chris Croft outlines the twelve steps to managing projects without creating a lot of extra overhead, and shows how to use traditional project management tools—such as Gantt charts and network diagrams—to help you succeed. Learn how to plan a project, manage resources, monitor progress, and deliver your project on time and on budget.
LinkedIn Learning E-Course, 1 hour 45 minutes
Dive into the world of project management with Kerry Hoffman, an expert in operations and project management. Kerry demystifies how to apply project management techniques to both professional and personal projects. Discover best practices for initiating, planning, executing, and monitoring your projects. Learn to close and evaluate your efforts, identifying paths for continuous improvement. After this course, you'll be able to use a project management approach for success in any aspect of life.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 39 minutes
Start E-course: Project Manage Your Life: How to use PM Methodologies to Organize Anything
The more complex a project is, the more likely it is that you'll need help from outside vendors and partners. This is especially true for new and aspiring project managers who are still learning the tricks of the trade. Procurement is the process of planning, managing, and executing purchases of outside goods and services for your organization. Join author, speaker, and trainer Oliver Yarbrough as he provides an overview of procurement management and how you can implement procurements on your projects. Review key concepts, pitfalls, critical success factors, and best practices. Learn how to collaborate more effectively with your vendors and contract management teams by understanding different procurement contract types. Plus, explore agile procurement, along with emerging trends in the field such as rapid procurement, reverse auctions, and how to leverage AI and automation tools to streamline procurement processes.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 1 hour 15 minutes
While quality may be a subjective measure when it comes to products like cars, clothes, or food, you can still loosely think of quality as a measure of expectations versus reality. When it comes to the realm of project management, defining quality is a little more cut and dry: To what degree did the project meet its requirements? In this course, Daniel Stanton provides project managers with an introduction to key quality management concepts. As Daniel points out, quality could be the main factor in making a sale and earning repeat business, and understanding the basics of quality management can help you deliver better results. He covers topics like metrics, Six Sigma techniques, quality function deployment, and Pareto analysis, and explains the difference between qualitative and quantitative quality metrics. After this course, you’ll have a better idea of the role quality management plays within project management.
LinkedIn Learning E-Course, 31 minutesl