Principles of Time Management

Hours: 16 / Access Length: 180 Days / Delivery: Online, Self-Paced
Retail Price: $275.00

Course Overview:

In this fast-paced world all too often it seems that time is a precious commodity. There never seems to be enough time in our day to do the things we need to accomplish.  In this course students explore various approaches to managing time and organizing our schedules so that anyone can find a method that works for them. We will explore ways to prioritize what we need to do but allow time to do what we want to do.

Students will:

• explore the factors limiting their ability to manage time effectively.
• use the WADE formula to begin managing time.
• understand how the approach to time management that will work best for them.
• identify their time management goals and create a plan to reach them.
• use the SPACE formula to help organize their time.
• take a look back at what they learned and look at ways their time management skills have changed.

Course Outline:

Lesson 1: Laying the Foundation

In this lesson we are going lay the foundation for improving our time management skills by first looking at what our time management issues are costing us. What will we gain by improving our time management skills. This goal will be something we will keep in front of us as we go through this course. Next, we will look at what may be holding us back. It could be that we lack the skills or knowledge, or that issues outside of our control keep throwing us off track. It could also be our selves standing in our way. We will end the lesson by looking at where we are spending our time so we know where we can begin improving our time management skills.

Lesson 2: The WADE Formula

In this lesson we are going to look at two ways of getting started with managing our time and dealing with the paper clutter in our lives.  For dealing with our time we will look at the WADE formula - Write it down,  Add it up,  Decide and Execute the plan.  We will also look at how to get a handle on our paper clutter.  We'll look at how to go through and sort the paper then what to do with the paper and how to keep it from getting out of hand again.

Lesson 3: Analyze

In this lesson we are going to explore our relationship to time.  We will start with choosing a planner that matches our personality.  We'll take into account how our minds work as well as our lifestyle.  Then we will explore how we relate to time - what times of day may be more productive and whether we prefer to work alone or in groups as well as what boosts our energy.  Then we will look at the categories of activities our life and how our time is spent. This can help us to find balance in our lives.

Lesson 4: Strategize

In this lesson we are going to look at setting goals, defining activities and creating time maps.  Before you can do something important, in this case effectively manage your time, you need to set a goal.  We will look at what makes a goal effective and set goals for the major areas of our lives.  Then we look at what activities will help us to reach our goals.  We will end by scheduling those activities on a time map so that we can make the best use of our time.

Lesson 5: Attack

In this lesson we begin the day to day management of our time.  We will use the SPACE Formula for dealing with our tasks.  As we encounter a task we will Sort it into what area of our life it goes with, Purge tasks we don't have to do, Assign a home to each task, planning when we will do it, Containerize our tasks so they don't take over our schedules and then Equalize our schedule by reviewing and adjusting it as needed.

Lesson 6: Putting it All Together

In the last five lessons we have explored the principles of time management and begun to apply them to our own lives.  Hopefully, you have found some techniques to help you more effectively use your time.  In this lesson we will look back at what we have learned and see what changes we have made to our time management practices.

All necessary materials are included.

System Requirements:

Internet Connectivity Requirements:

• Cable, Fiber, DSL, or LEO Satellite (i.e. Starlink) internet with speeds of at least 10mb/sec download and 5mb/sec upload are recommended for the best experience.

NOTE: While cellular hotspots may allow access to our courses, users may experience connectivity issues by trying to access our learning management system.  This is due to the potential high download and upload latency of cellular connections.   Therefore, it is not recommended that students use a cellular hotspot as their primary way of accessing their courses.

Hardware Requirements:

• CPU: 1 GHz or higher
• RAM: 4 GB or higher
• Resolution: 1280 x 720 or higher.  1920x1080 resolution is recommended for the best experience.
• Speakers / Headphones
• Microphone for Webinar or Live Online sessions.

Operating System Requirements:

• Windows 7 or higher.
• Mac OSX 10 or higher.
• Latest Chrome OS
• Latest Linux Distributions
  

NOTE: While we understand that our courses can be viewed on Android and iPhone devices, we do not recommend the use of these devices for our courses. The size of these devices do not provide a good learning environment for students taking online or live online based courses.

Web Browser Requirements:

• Latest Google Chrome is recommended for the best experience.
• Latest Mozilla FireFox
• Latest Microsoft Edge
• Latest Apple Safari

Basic Software Requirements (These are recommendations of software to use):

• Office suite software (Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice)
• PDF reader program (Adobe Reader, FoxIt)
• Courses may require other software that is described in the above course outline.