Do your meticulously planned schedules often fall apart, leaving you feeling overwhelmed and behind? Changing priorities, inaccurate time estimates, and persistent procrastination are common hurdles that derail even the best-laid plans. If you're constantly struggling to manage your time and commitments effectively, this course is designed for you.

In 'Scheduling 101: How to Prioritize Tasks and Avoid Procrastination,' offered by Personal Development ProSkills.training, you'll master essential skills to regain control and achieve your most important goals. This comprehensive 11-lesson, 16-page course, featuring graded assessments, provides a practical blueprint for effective time management and increased productivity.

Throughout this course, you will learn to:

• Master the Art of Scheduling: Discover why scheduling is a valuable skill and how to create a personalised schedule that works for you, not the other way around. You'll learn a practical six-step process for effective time management, from choosing the right tools to listing tasks by priority and leaving room for flexibility. Gain five key tips to fine-tune your scheduling skills, including colour-coding, creating 'themes,' scheduling for your task and energy flow, grouping calls/meetings, and establishing productive routines. Understand how a well-crafted schedule helps protect time for top priorities, keeps you organised, avoids distractions, and helps detect problems before they happen.
• Perfect Task Prioritisation: Uncover simple, effective strategies to determine which tasks demand your immediate attention. You'll learn to distinguish the essential from the non-essential and use this knowledge to sequence your work and distribute your energy effectively. The course introduces you to the powerful Eisenhower Decision Matrix, helping you classify tasks by urgency and importance into four clear categories: Do (urgent & important), Decide (important but not urgent), Delegate (urgent but not important), and Delete (not important & not urgent). This method empowers you to focus on work that truly matters and advances your long-term goals.
• Estimate Time Accurately: Combat the common psychological phenomenon known as the planning fallacy, where people consistently underestimate how long future tasks will take. This course provides four proven techniques to develop more realistic and accurate time estimates:
  • Basing estimates on historical data from similar past tasks.
  • Employing bottom-up estimating by breaking large tasks into smaller, manageable steps.
  • Using a weighted average (three-point estimation) to factor in optimistic, most likely, and pessimistic scenarios.
  • Calculating your unique 'fudge ratio' to adjust future estimates based on your past accuracy. Say goodbye to missed deadlines and unrealistic expectations.0

By completing 'Scheduling 101,' you will gain the clarity and confidence to manage multiple commitments and competing priorities effectively. You'll learn to be consistent, focused, and realistic in your planning, transforming your schedule into a living document that adapts to your needs. As Stephen Covey wisely said, "The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities".