Organize Your Physical and Digital Workspace
Organizing your physical and digital workspaces is a great way to be more productive. When you declutter your workspace, you can improve many aspects of your work day, including your ability to concentrate, achieve targets, and become more efficient.
This course will help you increase your productivity by showing you how to organize and maintain both your physical and digital workspaces. You’ll learn the rewards of organizing your workspace and find out what a productive workspace looks like.
You’ll learn how to use your organization skills to manage your digital workspace. And finally, you’ll find out how to make your new clutter-free life last by making organization a habit.
40 Minutes
- Recognize the rewards of an organized workspace
- Recognize what a productive workspace looks like
- Apply the process for creating a clutter-free workspace in a given scenario
- Recognize appropriate examples of the principles of effective filing
- Recognize techniques for managing digital files
- Manage your e-mail in a given scenario
- Recognize how to maintain a productive workspace
Avoid Procrastination by Getting Organized Instead
Individuals wishing to improve their productivity in the workplace
50 Minutes
- Recognize the benefits of overcoming procrastination
- Recognize the causes of workplace procrastination
- Recognize ways to develop discipline in a given scenario
- Match the actions to take to combat time wasters
- Recognize how to set priorities and keep focused
- Identify ways to say “no” and avoid over commitment
Maximize Your Productivity by Managing Time and Tasks
The amount of time available to you is constant – you can’t buy more and you can’t save it for later. However, by managing your time, you can increase your productivity. And the better you understand your own personal productivity, the easier it will be to manage your time effectively.
In this course, you’ll learn about how you can use task management to maximize your productivity. You’ll discover the benefits of using time management and assessing the value of your tasks. You’ll learn about benefits of setting goals and how productivity is tied to your ability to assess time and set priorities.
And you’ll also learn about the process of “chunking” your time and how to use different types of to-do lists effectively.
30 Minutes
- Sequence the steps for assessing the time and value of your tasks
- Match the types of tasks that belong in four priority categories
- Recognize how to chunk your time
- Recognize the basic principles of scheduling
- Recognize what an effective to-do list looks like
- Analyze the use of a to-do list in a given scenario
Achieve Productivity in Your Personal Life
A busy personal life has a direct correlation to your productivity level at your job. By getting control of your productivity at home, you can improve your productivity work too, making you better able to stick to schedules and meet deadlines by reducing the stress and distractions that come from trying to juggle home and work at the same time.
In this course, you’ll learn how to prepare for trips, plan personal and household tasks, and become more organized as a parent. You’ll also explore tips for achieving an effective work/life balance and taking care of your personal health and well-being.
30 Minutes
- Identify tips to help you to get yourself and your family out the door on time
- Select tips that help you manage time when you’re on the go
- Identify tips that aid you in organizing personal and household tasks
- Choose actions that help you to organize your parental responsibilities
- Identify actions that help you maintain your health and well-being
Becoming an Accountable Professional
Most employees in business organizations must answer to someone else. From the top of the organization chart to the bottom, nearly every manager and employee must look to a supervisor, a director, or even a customer to establish priorities, assign tasks, set deadlines, and evaluate results.
Whoever gives this direction is called the boss. On one level, the boss decides how employees will perform their jobs. How well an employee meets requirements set by the boss determines whether that employee succeeds or fails, receives rewards or penalties, and earns praise or criticism. On another level however, the judgment of an external boss isn’t enough to make a job personally fulfilling and rewarding.
That’s something all employees of an organization decide for themselves. Everyone who works must also answer to an inner boss, a personal, internal voice that provides guidance on whether a job is worth doing and whether it is done well.
Accepting personal accountability for your work means your inner boss sets demanding standards and that you’re willing to commit to meeting those standards and answer for the results of your work.
In this course, you’ll learn how to listen to your own inner boss, how to identify your internal standards, how to create a plan to meet those standards, and how to apply your inner boss’s guidance to gain more control over your work, your goals, and your future.
50 Minutes
- Recognize the intrinsic rewards of being an accountable professional
- Distinguish traits of accountable people
- Identify examples of people taking on responsibility
- Recognize the behaviors of unaccountable people
- Describe how to build accountability within a team
- Identify actions that encourage accountability in others
- Establish clear expectations to promote accountability
- Maintain accountability and professionalism at work
Becoming Your Own Best Boss
Have you ever thought that you could be the best boss you’ve ever had? By developing attitudes and skills that empower you, you can manage from within and become your own best boss.
Self-empowerment is the process of taking responsibility for your attitudes, behaviors, and actions at work to maximize your effectiveness. As an empowered employee, you will be driven by ownership, initiative, and performance.
This course focuses on attitudes and behaviors that promote self-empowerment. It provides strategies for empowering yourself through self-coaching, approaches for developing an entrepreneurial mind-set, and an opportunity to apply a model for self-empowerment to enhance your performance.
Applying these approaches will help you become a self-empowered contributor in your organization.
50 Minutes
- Recognize negative self-talk
- Replace self-defeating talk with the language of self-coaching
- Choose statements that reflect an attitude of job ownership
- Recognize actions that demonstrate initiative
- Sequence the steps in the self-empowerment model
- Choose examples of proper use of the self-empowerment model
- Identify professional strengths and areas for development
- Recognize relevant choices for professional development
- Demonstrate initiative and self-empowerment at work
Becoming More Professional through Business Etiquette
Your reputation often precedes you in any work environment. It can define your credibility, impact your career opportunities, and shape your relationships with your colleagues.
In this course, you’ll learn the basics of how to act professionally and practice proper business etiquette. You’ll learn how to project a professional image, both in your appearance and in your workspace décor. Finally, you’ll learn how to ensure your personal activities, including your social media presence, don’t negatively impact your work reputation.
30 Minutes
- Identify the key characteristics of business etiquette
- Recall the importance of dressing professionally
- Recognize examples of appropriate workspace presentation
- Recognize how to conduct yourself professionally beyond the office
Developing a Personal Accountability Framework
You are juggling a lot of competing tasks. Meeting deadlines, production targets, and business objectives are serious responsibilities. It’s tempting, at times, to find easy ways out of fulfilling them, or to use excuses as to why you can’t. But to be accountable is part of being a professional.
Demonstrating your personal and professional accountability is key to your ongoing success. Building accountability is a process of showing that you’re a reliable, organized, and dedicated person, and further, ensuring accountability means taking ownership of your responsibilities.
In this course you’ll learn how to show leadership accountability, implementing strategies for setting goals, developing an action plan, and seeing all those competing tasks through to completion.
40 Minutes
- Recognize an appropriate accountability goal for a given set of priorities, objectives, and passions
- Recognize examples of SMART goals
- Sequence the steps in creating an action plan
- Match different types of activities to their time and energy requirements
- Identify methods of staying focused
- Match energy types to the activities that help recharge them
Making the Most of Making Mistakes
Everyone makes mistakes, but knowing how to handle them well can turn potential failure into a success. The secret is to learn to view errors and opportunities to learn, developing a growth mindset, and applying what you’ve learned in order to mitigate against future mistakes.
In this course, you’ll learn to identify when mistakes can be opportunities for personal improvement and how mistakes can be avoided. You’ll also learn how mistakes can drive improvements, as well as techniques to mitigate and learn from mistakes.
30 Minutes
- Discover the key concepts covered in this course
- Identify how mistakes can lead to opportunities for improvement
- Identify strategies to help you change your perspective about mistakes
- Identify best practices for mitigation or avoidance of common types of mistakes.
- Recognize examples of steps to take to mitigate personal mistakes in the workplace
- Identify critical activities to help you effectively bounce back from mistakes
- Knowledge Check: Assessing Your Skills in Making the Most of Making Mistakes