Time management for life: how to take control of your time

Do you want to be more efficient, effective and productive in your life?

Do you want to learn more about time management?

Do you want to understand your own time management challenges and how you are currently spending and managing your time?

This course is a practical, action oriented course designed to give you the time management and productivity tips, tools and strategies to be more efficient, effective and productive in your life.

The course aims to give you an insight into time management and the challenges of managing your time and being productive. You will understand your own time management challenges and how you are currently spending and managing your time. The course will give you a wealth of time management and productivity tips, tools and strategies to put in place and to use in your life to manage your time so that you are more efficient, effective and productive. As you go through the course you will develop your  own personalised time management action plan and put in place time management strategies so that you manage your time in the best way now and going forward.

The course is designed to be practical and relevant to real life. It is not a theoretical or academic course on time management and productivity.

What are the course aims?

The course aims to:

* Give you an insight into time management and the challenges of managing your time and being productive.

* Look at your own time management challenges and how you are currently spending and managing your time.

* Provide you with a wealth of time management and productivity tips, tools and strategies to put in place and to use in your life to manage your time so that you are more efficient, effective and productive.

* Enable you to develop a personalised time management action plan and put in place time management strategies so that you manage your time in the best way now and going forward.

What is included in the course?

The course has the following sections:

* Introduction: including an introduction to the course and the tutor

* Time management challenges: including the costs of poor time management, the challenges of managing your time and looking at time management from a different perspective

* How is your time management? including looking at your own time management challenges and how you are currently spending your time

* Time management tips and strategies: including lots of practical time management tools, tips and strategies to help you manage your time and that you can use to be more efficient, effective and productive in your life.

* Your time management plan: including your own time management challenges, how you currently spend your time and the strategies you are going to put in place to be more efficient, effective and productive in your life.

* Course summary: including a short summary of the course, a course quiz to self assess your learning and a checklist of all the tips and strategies covered in the course.

We have also included introductions and summaries throughout the course to help with learning.

The course is in short bite sized lectures and you can see the detailed course content in the course curriculum.

Practical activities - Developing your own time management plan and a course quiz

There are exercises to complete as you go through the course to develop your own personalised time management action plan. These include understanding your own time management challenges, how you are currently spending your time and what actions you are going to take and what strategies you will follow to manage your time to be more efficient, effective and productive in your life.

There is also a short multiple choice quiz in the Summary section of the course for you to use to self assess your learning from the course.

You will need to allow additional time in addition to the duration of the videos to complete the worksheets and quiz.

What will you cover on the course and what will you learn?

As you go through the course you will be looking at your own time management, how you are spending your time, the impact on you, your work and those around you of your current time management practices, how to manage your time to be more efficient, effective and productive in your life and time management tools, tips and strategies.

By the end of the course you will have a better understanding of time management, know what your time management challenges are, have an action plan for managing your time better now and going forward and have time management strategies in place to manage your time to be more efficient, effective and productive in your life.

Even if you are not finding it difficult to manage your time at the moment you will have the opportunity to review you and your work and to decide on actions to take to support you in managing your time efficiently, effectively and productively going forward.

Important notes and more about the course

If you are already very knowledgeable about time management and productivity, this course may not be for you. It includes an insight into time management and the challenges of managing your time and being productive, practical time management tools, tips and strategies that you can use to be more efficient, effective and productive in your life and an opportunity to develop your own time management plan, some or all of which you may already know a lot about.  

You can watch the lectures at your convenience on your computer, tablet or smart phone.   

You can choose to complete the whole course or just watch the lectures that are most relevant to you, whichever you prefer. You can watch each lecture in full or just the elements you want to watch and you can stop a lecture at any point if you want to study the content in more detail.

You can watch the lectures at the preassigned speed or you can choose to speed up or slow down the lectures to suit your own preference.

We have included links in the resource section of the Introduction video to the Udemy help section which explains in detail how to access and watch the course, so you can find out more about watching the course and adjusting the course settings (such as course speed) to suit your individual preferences.

We have also included links in the resource section of the Course summary video to the Udemy help section which explains in detail how to download your course certificate after watching the whole course.

Good luck

Good luck with the course and I hope you find it invaluable.