Workday Effectiveness: Time Management and Control
Most professionals lose time to a work scattered across inboxes, chats, sticky notes, and memory. When work lives in too many places, the day gets spent restarting tasks instead of finishing them.
Participants learn how to capture and organize work into one reliable place, allowing them to make better decisions about what gets their time. They also learn to stay in control when work builds up, making priorities and capacity visible when demands exceed the time available. With practical strategies to reduce context switching and review overload, work moves forward consistently, with fewer missed items, less rework, and clearer handoffs across the team.
- Capture tasks, requests, and follow-ups so work is not tracked mentally
- Organize incoming work into clear, actionable next steps in one reliable system
- Decide what to do first when time, attention, and capacity are limited
- Reduce time lost to interruptions, context switching, and unfinished work
- Reset and regain control when workload builds up or priorities shift
- Use AI to speed up capturing and organizing work, while applying your own judgment to decide what to keep and act on
Build the system (COM: Capture, Organize, Maintain)
- Capture tasks and follow-ups as they come in instead of relying on memory
- Turn incoming work into clear next steps in one reliable place
- Choose simple tools to keep the system current
Spend your time well
- Prioritize when time and capacity are limited
- Avoid letting email, chat, and interruptions drive the day
- Manage “almost done” work that keeps coming back
- Use a simple daily routine to stay focused on what matters most
Stay in control when work builds up
- Recognize the early signs of overload
- Reset the system when priorities shift
- Communicate workload and capacity clearly
This course is designed for professionals who are responsible for managing their own workload.
It is a strong fit for those who:
- Feel busy all day but still struggle to move important work forward
- Find it difficult to decide what to do first when everything feels urgent
- Deal with frequent interruptions, shifting priorities, and constant incoming work
There are no prerequisites for this workshop.
FAQ
No. The approach is tool-agnostic. It works with whatever you already use, whether that’s a notebook, a simple list, or a task app. The point isn’t new software. It’s getting work out of scattered places and into one you trust and can manage.
COM is the framework at the heart of the course: Capture, Organize, and Maintain. You capture work as it arrives, organize it into clear next steps in one place you trust, and maintain that place with a quick daily routine. It’s one system to run your whole day, not a loose set of productivity tips.
It’s built for application. You work through your own tasks and processes with activities, and you leave with a one-page action plan you can put to use the next morning. It’s practical, and it rewards follow-through: the more consistently you use the system, the more it does for you.
Yes. The course covers where AI helps at each step of the system, and how to judge what’s worth keeping so it adds less to your workload, not more. The focus is responsible, everyday use, with your judgment in charge of the decision.
Yes. A full part of the course covers reducing interruptions and context switching, protecting your focus, and staying in control when work piles up, including how to make your workload and capacity visible when demands exceed your time.
Open to all members of the public.
$ 595 plus tax
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