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Time Management for Knowledge Workers and IT professionals
Rating: 4.4 out of 5(211 ratings)
4,707 students

Time Management for Knowledge Workers and IT professionals

Make your dream come true with a toolset for achieving long term goals
Created byAnatoly Minaev
Last updated 8/2020
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What you'll learn

  • Simple practices that will enable you to increase your efficiency and productivity, and eventually achieve your long-term goals.
  • The course will enable you to assemble your own productivity system based on workings of our mind that you will feel firsthand.
  • You will receive a cheat sheet with 50+ immediately applicable productivity lifehacks.
  • Practices covered: 2 minutes rule, next action decision, 4D decision making model, Pomodoro, intrinsic motivation, habit list, 12 week year, bullet journal.

Course content

2 sections • 22 lectures • 1h 59m total length

  • Introduction2:11

    This course will teach you about the key principles of personal productivity

  • Course Overview3:04

    Course goal: let you EXPERIENCE THE WORKINGS OF OUR MIND so that you can ASSEMBLE YOUR OWN PRODUCTIVITY SYSTEM based on the takeaways


    Part 1 – Core part: Key productivity principles, 1 hour

    • Multitasking

    • How our brain works – fast and slow thinking

    • Illustrative brain model

    • A more scientific brain model

    • Brain fuel concept

    • Tips to increase productivity

    Part 2 – Bonus part: Productivity Methods (optional), 1 hour

    • Limit your WIP (Work in Progress)

    • The emotional cycle of change

    • Pomodoro technique

    • Fighting procrastination – Vision, Planning, Habit List

    • 12 week year

    • Bullet Journal

    Paste your answers as comments to this lecture

    1.Tell me about yourself (if you’re OK with revealing your info) - your occupation, hobbies, where you are from.

    2.Why do you take this course?

    3.What do you expect to learn?

    4.What would you like to improve?

  • Quick and Important Note1:12
  • Multitasking3:21

    Task: write your answer as comments to this lecture


    1.How many passes did you count?

    2.Did you spot the gorilla?

    3.What are the takeaways to your mind?

  • Video Takeaways1:49

    Focus on one task at a time to maximize attention capacity and reduce errors. Multitasking diminishes road and work safety, especially when driving or handling emergencies.

  • Multitasking Exercise2:42

    Task: write your answer into comments

    What are the takeaways?

  • Multitasking Takeaways2:51

    Explore how context switching and interruptions erode productivity, with a 2007 study showing 15 minutes to regain focus and 5–30 minutes to return to tasks such as writing or coding.

  • Brain Workings Exercises4:21

    Explore brain workings through quick intuition exercises, observing how feelings influence computation and what your first answers reveal about your reasoning during arithmetic problems.

  • an Illustrative Brain Model7:20
  • Illustrative Brain Model Quiz
  • How to Train the Monkey4:35

    Learn to train the monkey for time management by planning with the elephant, breaking tasks into simple steps, removing distractions, and advancing in small, frequent iterations.

  • Brain Fuel7:53

    Discover how brain fuel governs thinking power as you switch from fast, automatic system one to effortful system two, while learning to unload short-term memory to boost productivity.

  • Immediately Applicable Productivity Tips11:22
  • Simple Productivity Tips and Summary8:17

Requirements

  • No prior knowledge is required, although acquaintance with time management techniques, such as Pomodoro, is a plus.
  • The most important is to have a burning desire to make your dream come true and change your life.

Description

Do you have a dream and want it to come true? Then this course is for you!

If you have a dream, you understand that life is too short to waste! In the course we will discuss simple practices that will enable you to increase your efficiency and productivity, and eventually achieve your long-term goals. The course will enable you to assemble your own productivity system based on workings of our mind that you will experience firsthand.

- How our brain works – fast and slow thinking, monkey and elephant;

- Multitasking and its effects;

- Brain fuel and ego depletion concept, limiting our Work In Progress (WIP);

- The "Pomodoro" technique for focusing on tasks at hand;

- 2 minutes rule;

- 4D (Delete, Delegate, Do, Defer) decision making model for tackling tasks;

- Next action decision making for projects;

- Why any change is hard – the emotional cycle of change;

- Motivation, hedonic adaptation and the power of vision;

- How to fight procrastination;

- Bullet Journal technique for using a notebook to capture all your tasks and thoughts;

- The 12 Week Year goal setting and how to use it to achieve your long-term goals.


You will acquire a broad toolset to move towards your goals.


As a bonus you will receive:

- A cheat sheet with 50 productivity lifehacks

- Templates for the Pomodoro technique & 12 Week Year.

Who this course is for:

  • The course is intended for a broad audience of knowledge workers - managers, technical specialists, IT specialists and software developers, HR and recruitment employees, advertising and SMM specialists and others.
  • The course is for people who have a dream and are ready to work hard to make it come true.
  • For those who understand that they are capable of more and who are willing to change their life and be the best version of themselves.
  • Beginner level – no prior knowledge on personal efficiency is required, although it will be a plus.

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