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Time Management and Productivity at Work
A free time management course for office and administrative work: audit your week, set priorities, plan your day, handle interruptions and deal with overload. Five short lessons, a quiz and a certificate of completion.
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About 60 minutes
5 short lessons and one final quiz. Your progress is saved, so you can stop and come back on any device.
Certificate of completion
Finish every lesson and score 70% or more on the final quiz. Retakes are unlimited.
Not a program
This free short course is not part of a Ucademy diploma or certificate program and gives no program credit.
What you will learn
- Run a one-week time audit and find your biggest time drains
- Sort tasks with the Eisenhower matrix and the deadline, who-is-waiting and cost-of-lateness questions
- Build a daily plan with time blocks, buffers and three top tasks
- Use batching, the two-minute rule and short scripts to handle interruptions politely
- Plan backward from a deadline and answer new requests with yes, not yet or a counter-offer
- Raise an overloaded workload with a supervisor using facts and options
Who it is for
Adults who are starting or returning to office or administrative work in Alberta, and anyone who feels busy all day without finishing the important work. No experience is needed.
What you need
- A notebook, spreadsheet or notes app to try the exercises
- A calendar you can use, such as Outlook, Google Calendar or paper (optional)
- About 60 minutes in total, which you can split across several days
Lessons
- 1Where your time goes: running a time audit12 min
- 2Setting priorities: urgent, important and who is waiting12 min
- 3Planning your day and week with time blocks12 min
- 4Protecting focus: interruptions, email and meetings12 min
- 5Deadlines, overload and building lasting habits12 min
- ✓Time Management and Productivity at Work: final quizfinal quiz
Where this course can lead
Administrative Assistant Diploma
This course is a short, practical introduction. The full program goes much further: 806 hours online plus an 86-hour internship: Microsoft Office, business communication, bookkeeping basics and office procedures.
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Yes. You create a free Ucademy account, take the five lessons and the quiz, and pay nothing.
Yes. When you pass the quiz you receive a Ucademy certificate of completion. The course is not part of a Ucademy diploma or certificate program.
About 60 minutes in total. It is online and self-paced, so you can finish in one sitting or over several days.
No. The examples come from offices, but the methods work for anyone who has to juggle tasks, including students and people returning to work.
It is a method that sorts tasks by urgency and importance into four boxes: do now, schedule, delegate and drop. Lesson 2 shows how to use it on a real task list.
No. It is a free short course, not part of a Ucademy diploma or certificate program, and it does not give program credit.
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