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Work Smarter, Not Harder: Time Management for Personal & Professional Productivity (University of California, Irvine)

You will be able to gain and apply your knowledge and understanding of personal and professional awareness, organization and commitment, and use the tools, methods and techniques that you have learned in goal setting, prioritization, scheduling, and delegation to overcome time management challenges and enhance productivity.

Get Beyond Work-Life Balance (Catalyst)

Through research and real-world examples from a variety of situations, you will learn strategies for managing workplace flexibility, and you will learn how you have the power as an individual, a team member, or a leader to make positive change. You will understand the value of a flexible work environment and see what sets successful flexible workers and managers apart.

Organize yourself as a remote worker or self-employed (Coursera)

In this 2 hour long project-based course, you will learn how to manage yourself as a remote employed worker or self-employed, with essential practices, tips and tools. You will create a browser work persona and set up tasks, time and productivity management tools, use online shared documents and video meetings, professional messaging, accounting and invoicing, and even relax and focus with meditation noise and productivity management techniques. The ultimate starting guide for remote and self work!

Intro to Scheduling: When I Work (Coursera)

This course will provide step-by-step guidance on how to create a detailed schedule for a small business. The scheduling tool When I Work is a free and user-friendly application which allows users to easily customize, create, and share work schedules. When I Work has a large number of free features, making it a budget friendly option for any company looking for a user-friendly, versatile, and effective scheduling program.

How To Make The Most Out Of Your 24 Hours

Does it ever feel like there aren’t enough hours in a day to accomplish everything you hope to accomplish? While balancing work and life in a 24-hour period can be a tricky act, there are simple steps you can take to make your daily routine more manageable in order to achieve more in the short term and long term.

Managing Family Life During a Crisis Using Best Practices from Enterprises and Startups

This webinar will focus on some rather basic best practices of successful businesses that can be integrated into family life for more certainty and sanity. We'll also discuss the concept of RACI (Responsible, Accountable, Consulted and Informed) and how it can be implemented.

Launching Your Startup in School (eCornell)

In this session, you’ll hear from a panel of startup founders who began their businesses while in school. They’ll share their motivations, the mistakes they made, the challenges they overcame, and the advantages of getting started while immersed in an academic environment.

Small Business Time Management & Productivity Episodes

These episodes of The How of Business podcast are on the topic of Time Management and Personal Productivity. These episodes provide insights, tips and techniques to help you better manage your time and improve your personal productivity so that you can start and grow your small business.

It's About Time | Time Management & Productivity for Work Life & Balance

Each week, host Anna Dearmon Kornick shares time management tips, productivity strategies and real-life advice to help YOU make the most of your time.

The Productivity Show: Time Management

At The Productivity Show we believe you should get your important things done without having to sacrifice your health, family and things that matter to you. This is a weekly podcast where we show you ways to save time, increase your productivity and happiness. We cover topics such as goal setting, time management, personal development and efficiency.

How to gain control of your free time | TED Talk

There are 168 hours in each week. How do we find time for what matters most? Time management expert Laura Vanderkam studies how busy people spend their lives, and she's discovered that many of us drastically overestimate our commitments each week, while underestimating the time we have to ourselves. She offers a few practical strategies to help find more time for what matters to us, so we can "build the lives we want in the time we've got."

Inside the mind of a master procrastinator | TED Talk

The struggle against procrastination is real, and it’s time management’s greatest foe. But, why do we do this to ourselves? Well, that was a question Tim Urban, founder of the site Wait But Why, wanted to answer.To better understand his own behavior, Tim went to an MRI Lab. His goal was to study the differences between the minds of a procrastinator and non-procrastinator.

Forget multitasking, try monotasking | TED Talk

People don't just cook anymore -- they're cooking, texting, talking on the phone, watching YouTube and uploading photos of the awesome meal they just made. Designer Paolo Cardini questions the efficiency of our multitasking world and makes the case for -- gasp -- "monotasking."

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4 Tips for Effective Virtual Collaboration

By being strategic about how your team’s time is spent and how you all communicate, you can collaborate more effectively, even at a distance. First, use regular meetings to set vision, align roles, agree on goals, or do other creative and strategic discussions.

Be More Realistic About the Time You Have

It’s no surprise that many of us overload our workday, assuming we can take on many tasks in a small amount of time. Yet, at the end of the day, we’re stunned to find that work remains unfinished. Despite past evidence, our predictive engines gum up, and we’re convinced we’ll be able to achieve the extraordinary in an ordinary day.

Align Your Time Management with Your Goals

Your Team's Time Management Problem Might Be a Focus Problem

“My team has a time management problem,” leaders often tell me. For example, an executive might say that their teams aren’t moving the needle on important projects, yet staffers seem busy and stressed. “Time management” becomes a catchall solution to this problem, and they want to hire me to offer tips and techniques on things like prioritizing and using their calendars better.

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• Allen, David, Brandon Hall, and David Allen. The Getting Things Done Workbook: 10 Moves to Stress-Free Productivity. 2019. Print.

• Duhigg, Charles. Smarter Faster Better: The Transformative Power of Real Productivity. 2017. Print.

• Hansen, Morten T. Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More. 2018. Print.

• Pink, Daniel H. When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. 2018. Print.

• Selk, Jason, Tom Bartow, and Matthew Rudy. Organize Tomorrow Today: 8 Ways to Retrain Your Mind to Optimize Performance at Work and in Life. Boston: Da Capo, 2016. Print.

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