Track Your Hours For Better Time Management And Productivity

Learn how to collect and apply time-tracking data, to make smart investments on how to maximize your impact.

What you'll learn

Understand why tracking your time is essential to good time management

Create a structured framework to capture time-tracking data in a useful format

Analyze your time tracking data to generate valuable insights about your work activity

Apply your time-tracking insights to be more effective at work

Requirements

No special skills or experience are required. You'll want to use time-tracking software, most of which are either inexpensive or offer a free option.

Description

People are fond of saying “time is money,” to convey the importance of time management. We use this mantra to justify rushing through our day, taking shortcuts, and applying pressure on ourselves and those around us.We don’t manage our time, however, the same way we manage our money. We try to budget our time by planning our work day, and we might come up with novel ways to save time here and there, but the similarities often end there. Good financial management is built on intelligence: we make important decisions based on a clear understanding of relativity. A dollar is worth exactly a hundred times more than a penny. This is why a million-dollar investment has a very different risk profile than a twenty-dollar bet.Without the same intelligent view of our time in its most granular form — hours and minutes spent across a wide array of projects and tasks — we will never succeed in managing our time as effectively as our money. This course is for people who know that their time is as valuable as money, and want to own their time by controlling it with the same precision.After a review of how this topic has been addressed by academics, we’ll look at tools you can use to test these concepts in your own work routine. We will also examine a case study of a corporate leader juggling many responsibilities, and follow along as she makes informed business decisions with a level of insight she previously thought impossible.If you ever have found yourself asking, “Where will I find the time?” get ready for a whole new perspective on your work day. This is more than a course on productivity and time management. You’ll eliminate blind spots and help yourself move beyond simple time management, to true ownership of your time.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Welcome & Learning Objectives

Section 2: Why track your time?

Lecture 2 One-upping time management

Lecture 3 A brief history of time use studies - Part 1

Lecture 4 A brief history of time use studies - Part 2

Lecture 5 Think like a CFO

Section 3: How do you track your time?

Lecture 6 Case study intro & overview of time tracking tools

Lecture 7 Breaking down personal time use into categories

Lecture 8 Turning insights into action

Section 4: How to use time-tracking data

Lecture 9 Section introduction

Lecture 10 Setting up the time-tracking study

Lecture 11 Native time-tracking reporting features

Lecture 12 Limitations of reporting features

Lecture 13 Clock Controller spreadsheet demo - Part 1

Lecture 14 Clock Controller spreadsheet demo - Part 2

Lecture 15 Clock Controller spreadsheet demo - Part 3

Lecture 16 Novel insights from raw data - Part 1

Lecture 17 Novel insights from raw data - Part 2

Lecture 18 Novel insights from raw data - Part 3

Lecture 19 Novel insights from raw data - Part 4

Lecture 20 Novel insights from raw data - Part 5

Lecture 21 Novel insights from raw data - Part 6

Lecture 22 How has the data helped?

Section 5: How to track time for maximum impact

Lecture 23 Section introduction

Lecture 24 Master Your Keyboard Shortcuts

Lecture 25 Calculate Your Hourly Rate

Lecture 26 Comprehensive Time Use Surveys - Part 1

Lecture 27 Comprehensive Time Use Surveys - Part 2

Lecture 28 Improve Your Delegation Skills

Lecture 29 Invest in Time Management - Part 1

Lecture 30 Invest in Time Management - Part 2

Lecture 31 Set Boundaries

Section 6: FAQs & Conclusion

Lecture 32 FAQs & Conclusion

At the end of a work day, do you ever ask yourself, "where did my time go?",Do you lack a confident awareness of the most common activities in your work day, and how much time they occupy?,Do you struggle with prioritization, or wish you had more objective insight into how much time you invest in your various responsibilities?,Do you work from home?,This course is for people who know that their time is valuable as money, and want to manage their time with the same precision.