Getting Stuff Done – Personal Development Boot Camp

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Recommended Prerequisites

No prerequisites are required for this course.

Course Overview

Why are there so many different organizational systems and time management methods out there? The answer is simple: it’s like any other personal challenge, like weight loss or money management. There is no simple, one size fits all answer. You must build a solution that works for you.

Over the course of this program, we will explore various time management and organizational tools and techniques so that you can build a customized productivity plan for your personal and professional lives. At the end of the course, you will emerge with a plan that works for you, so that you can start regaining control of your life!

Learning Objectives

• Identify what personal efficiency is, what skill sets can improve your personal productivity, and what attitudes we should cultivate
• Explain why multi-tasking is a myth
• Describe what role long-term goals play in short-term efficiency
• Share a personal vision and develop dreams and goals from it
• Apply the 80/20 rule and learn how it should affect planning
• Identify the characteristics of a good organizational system
• Develop a plan for an efficient workspace, including a customized information center and a filing system
• Apply a system that will allow you to process any type of information that crosses your desk, including e-mail, electronic files, paper files, voice mail, text messages, and drop-in visitors
• Use the Eisenhower principle to prioritize work
• Say no
• Use routines to simplify your life
• Understand why you procrastinate and develop methods for tackling tasks
• Apply ideas and tools to make your household more productive and efficient

Course Outline

1. Course Overview
2. Understanding Personal Efficiency
3. Developing the Right Attitude
4. Useful Skill Sets
5. Useful Attitudes
6. Laying the Foundation
7. Creating a Personal Vision Statement
8. Bringing It All Together
9. Making Connections
10. Identifying Dreams and Setting Goals
11. My Dreams and Goals
12. The Building Blocks of a Good Organizational System
13. Pareto’s Principle
14. Characteristics of a Good Organizational System
15. Creating the Right Environment
16. Garbage Out!
17. Laying Out Your Workspace
18. Re-Designing Your Workspace
19. Setting up a Daily System
20. Setting up a Filing System
21. Putting it in Action
22. Setting Up Your Virtual Environment
23. Organizing Electronic Files
24. Making Your E-Mail Program Work for You
25. Exploring Applications
26. Setting Up Your Information Management Center
27. Key Components of a System
28. Case Studies
29. Making Connections
30. Lessons Learned
31. Managing Information in Six Easy Steps
32. GOPHER It!
33. Processing E-Mail Messages
34. Digging Donald out of the Hole
35. Prioritizing Your Tasks
36. The Urgent-Important Matrix
37. Putting Tasks in Their Place
38. Saying No
39. Creating Routines
40. Stopping Procrastination Now (Not Later!)
41. Tackling Procrastination
42. A Challenge to Change
43. Applying Our Lessons at Home
44. Personal Action Plan
45. Recommended Reading List
46. Post-Course Assessment