What you'll learn
- Comprehensive self and time management for everyday work and in private life
- The focus funnel: How do you quickly get rid of tasks?
- Self-management vs. time management
- Getting Things Done (GTD) by David Allen explained
- Organise tasks in a structured and complete way
- Sorting tasks: How to set priorities correctly?
- Scheduling: How to realistically distribute tasks over the day (or any other time period)?
- Task Management: How to manage tasks, appointments and projects so that nothing comes to a standstill and no tasks are forgotten?
- Motivation: How to counter one's weaker self?
- Deep Work by Cal Newport explained: How to get into the Flow state?
- Task management for yourself and in a team
Requirements
- Before diving into the course, keep in mind which tasks you currently and regularly have in your daily life.
- Know in advance what goals you are pursuing in life, making it easier for you to use time management properly in the context of self-management.
Description
This master course covers a multitude of carefully selected time management methods and shows you the concepts behind the methods step-by-step - plus - what needs to be done such that you can apply these methods for yourself. Knowledge of psychological effects, the bio-rhythm, as well as coping with motivational pitfalls (or one's weaker self) complement the method training. At the beginning, the relationship between time management and self-management creates the right mindset, so that the later use of the methods does not result into a challenging task itself and ultimately costs more time than it saves. Important plus: This course is not only about different methods of time management as such, but also about the interleaving of the methods for a more general and all-inclusive self and time management for yourself as well as in a team.
This specific master course comprises five sub-courses that are available solely as well. With this master course, you get the full content within one package: From task identification over prioritisation and management of tasks to doing them with maximum motivation. Specially learning how to manage tasks with a system that will help you actively to reduce your stress level and increase focus while fulfilling tasks is part of this course.
Who this course is for:
- Employees with a stressful professional life
- Team leaders who want to retain control over delegated tasks in the team
- Self-employed / Freelancer with a challenging list of deadlines to follow
- Pupils and students who are looking for answers, how they can get submission deadlines, exam preparation and possibly a side job under control
- People with multiple jobs: main job, part time job, family, club ... Multiple roles can be a challenge sometimes
- People who are interested in personality development, self-management and time management
Course content
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Instructor
As an entrepreneur in IT, computer scientist and thanks to my experience in teaching and research at university, I collected a wide range of valuable knowledge that I am glad to share with you today.
My research interest is the field of software customisability, adaptivity and accessibility with a strong focus on user interaction with robotics (human-robot interaction as part of the human-computer interaction research community). Thus, I am currently working on strategies that help engineering assistants robots for people with special needs, e.g. the elderly or people with impairments. As robots are continuously advancing regarding their hardware, the software side is more and more becoming the bottleneck in this field which motivates me even more to work in that area. One crucial aspect that stands out here because of a very active research community, is the need for powerful voice interaction interfaces and systems that are able to really understand their users. Overall, a very dynamic research area with super motivating and interesting challenges.