course

Redesign your workweek

duration

40 minutes

level

Beginner

Maximize productivity

Configure your calendar to prioritize high-impact work and goals. You’ll learn how to set daily priorities, prioritize essential meetings, and schedule focus time. Then, learn how to set expectations with your team and maintain your calendar.
After this course, you’ll be able to:
  • Configure your calendar to optimize focus time during the week.
  • Prioritize high-impact work to enhance goal clarity and progress.
  • Maximize your efficiency to contribute more effectively to your team.
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6 Lessons in this course

5 minutes
Take control of your calendar and redesign your workweek

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Describe the purpose and mission of the exercise - Identify the four main steps of the exercise - Visualize how the exercise will impact your work in the future

Sections
  • Ready to start maximizing your focus time?
  • Additional resources
5 minutes
Edit existing meetings to increase focus time

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Identify which meetings are high value and decline or reschedule the rest - Consolidate meetings to free up focus time

Sections
  • Identify which meetings are high value
  • Decline or reschedule meetings that aren’t a high priority
  • Group existing meetings together
10 minutes
Set daily priorities and focus on critical work

**By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to:** * Determine your top priority for the next day * Communicate when you’re unavailable by blocking off your calendar * Set your working hours in your calendar

Sections
  • Set your top priority for the next day
  • How to determine your top priority work
  • Why should you schedule time for prioritized work?
  • Block any "not available" times in your calendar
  • Practice activity
10 minutes
Create blocks for focus time and collaboration on your calendar

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Schedule blocks of focus time to do deep work without distraction - Allocate blocks of time for open collaboration

Sections
  • Schedule focus time
  • Schedule open collaboration time
  • How to schedule open collaboration time
5 minutes
Maximize productivity by scheduling time to respond to messages

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Set time to respond to messages for fewer interruptions during focus time

Sections
  • Block time to respond to your messages
  • How to schedule time to respond to messages?
  • What if you need to check notifications during focus time?
  • Try it yourself
  • What does your ideal calendar look like?
5 minutes
How to continue making time for the work that matters most

By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to: - Communicate effectively with your team about your new way of working - Continue maintaining your calendar by applying practices from this exercise

Sections
  • Communicate to your team.
  • Implement change to your daily life.
  • Let’s look at a case study.