Supercharge your productivity
The course will cover three essential areas of productivity: prioritisation, focus, and action. You will learn how to work sustainably and still achieve the important results that will drive you forward.
Welcome!
How to get the most value from this training: do as you learn
Your Why: What would you like to take away from this course?
The power of the Focus-Prioritisation-Action diagram
What will you learn? A list of actionable take-aways after this course
Why prioritise: you can never achieve everything.
Prioritising yourself: when you are happy and feel well, you’re more likely to be productive
Where do you invest your energy? High-level prioritisation
Action 1: Conducting a life investment audit
Action 2: Making sure projects actually fit into your day (please note this is not an attempt to plan your days in blocks)
What are your goals and strategy?
Action 1: Mapping out the priority areas of your life
Action 2: Defining some goals for each project in the priority area
Action 3: Mapping your projects/goals on a calendar
Action 4: Putting the goals & related tasks in a task manager
Don’t work until you prioritise your tasks + 10-30 min action
Most effective and simple prioritisation techniques
1. Looking at your goals/strategic plan & assessing urgency + importance
2. ABC or top three - the simplest and the one I use
3.Eisenhower Matrix - Urgent + Important
4.Pareto principle: 80/20
5.Practical and organised: Prioritising in a spreadsheet
6.Simple and effective: doing the most important task first thing
How to plan your day with priorities in mind
What is your daily chronotype? Find your most productive time.
Deep work vs shallow work
Prioritising your tasks in a task manager - how I do it everyday
What to do when you have an off-day
Some tasks will never get done (and that's ok)
My productivity secret: underpromise and overdeliver
Why focus is key to complete high quality projects creatively
Make an audit of all your distractions
Protect focus on the organisational level
Remove your distractions: your phone
Remove your distractions: your computer
Remove your distractions: your physical environment
Remove your distractions: your thoughts and needs
How to actually focus