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Workplace Productivity: Time, Focus & High Performance [EN]
Time management | personal productivity | GTD | Pomodoro | focus and deep work | remote work | delegation skills | OKR
Last updated 8/2026
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What you'll learn
- Run a personal audit of your talents, engagement, burnout risk and current results, and turn it into a concrete improvement plan
- Build a working time system: SMART goals, the Eisenhower matrix, weekly planning, GTD, Kanban and time blocking
- Protect deep work: identify your time wasters, apply Pomodoro and the Golden Hour, and beat procrastination with the Eat the Frog principle
- Delegate properly using SMART, RACI and GROW, so that routine leaves your calendar and does not come back
- Manage your own energy and emotional state so that stress stops eating your focus
- Stay productive in remote and hybrid work: workspace, self-control, asynchronous communication and healthy boundaries
- Work with your manager the way high performers do: managing up, useful reporting and no micromanagement
- Choose the right tools instead of collecting them: Trello, Asana, Todoist, timeboxing and mind mapping
- Learn alongside Mike's 1.6 million students from 185 countries
- Get the author's experience from Preply, Wargaming, iDeals and Alfa-Bank
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Course content
15 sections • 39 lectures • 23h 7m total length
Requirements
- No prior productivity training is needed — every method is explained and demonstrated from scratch
- A real job with real overload, so you have something to apply the system to
- Willingness to run the personal audit honestly in the first lessons
- English at an intermediate level or above, since all lessons are in English
- A calendar and a task manager of any kind — you will restructure how you use them
Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
You are not short of time. You are short of a system, and every productivity book you have half-finished proves it.
The pattern is always the same. You start the week with a plan, and by Wednesday you are answering messages, sitting in meetings you did not need to attend, and pushing the one genuinely important task to Friday. Then Friday arrives and it moves to next week. You end the month exhausted, having worked constantly, with nothing you would actually put on a performance review. Meanwhile someone in the next team is doing visibly better work and leaving on time.
This course replaces effort with a system. You will know what you are actually optimising for, because you will start with an honest audit of your own results, energy and burnout risk. You will have one planning method you keep instead of five you abandoned. You will protect blocks of deep work rather than hoping for them. You will hand over what does not need you and get those hours back permanently. And you will hold this together on bad weeks, because the course treats your emotional state and your remote setup as part of the system rather than as excuses.
Your instructor: Mike Pritula, the number one HR instructor on Udemy, with more than 1.6 million course enrolments and over 150,000 professionals trained. Holder of PHRi and SHRM-CP certifications and HRCI representative in more than 10 countries. Built the people function of the unicorn Preply and worked at Wargaming, Alfa-Bank and iDeals.
The course is built in five layers, each one supporting the next. It opens with the high-performance mindset: what companies like Google and Netflix actually reward, how to manage yourself, how to work with your manager and how to make your contribution visible. Then comes the time system itself, from SMART goals and the Eisenhower matrix through GTD, Pomodoro, Kanban and timeboxing to the tools worth keeping. The third layer is emotional self-management, because focus collapses when your state does. The fourth adapts everything to remote and hybrid reality: workspace, self-control, asynchronous communication, wellbeing and digital skills. The course closes with delegation, the only method that gives you back hours rather than rearranging them.
What is included:
Lifetime access to all course materials
Active instructor support in the Q&A section
Udemy Certificate of Completion
Practical assignments and real business cases
A section with additional courses, tools and resources
Every week without a system is another week of hard work that leaves no trace. The people being promoted around you are not working more hours than you are — they are working on different things. Enrol now and start the first lesson today.
Who this course is for:
- Professionals who work long hours and still end the week with the important task untouched
- Remote and hybrid employees whose working day has lost its boundaries
- Team leaders and new managers who need to deliver through others instead of doing everything themselves
- Specialists who want to be seen as a top performer, not just a busy person
- Entrepreneurs and freelancers with no manager to set their priorities for them
- Anyone recovering from a period of overload who wants a system that is sustainable this time
- People who have tried GTD, Pomodoro or bullet journals and abandoned each of them within a month