Time and Priority Management

By the end

What you'll build

• Audit a working week and identify the recurring sources of lost time
• Sort competing work by consequence and alignment rather than by who asked most recently
• Build a weekly and daily plan that includes buffer and realistic estimates
• Keep a single trusted capture list and process an inbox as a queue
• Renegotiate, delegate or escalate work instead of silently absorbing it
• Run a regular review that adjusts the system as workload changes

Curriculum

What's inside

7 modules · 35 lessons

1. 01

   Seeing where your time goes

   5 lessons
   • Running a one-week time audit and reading the result
   • Attention, energy and the cost of switching tasks
   • Fixed commitments versus discretionary time
   • Naming your recurring time sinks
   • Where your time goes: idea to meaningmatch pairs
2. 02

   Deciding what matters

   5 lessons
   • Sorting work by consequence, not by who asked loudest
   • Urgency, importance and the difference between them
   • Aligning your list with team objectives
   • Saying no, renegotiating and escalating
   • Deciding what matters: fill the gapsfill blank
3. 03

   Planning the week and the day

   5 lessons
   • Building a weekly plan that survives Tuesday
   • Timeboxing and protecting blocks of focused work
   • Buffer, slack and realistic estimates
   • A daily shutdown and the next-day list
   • Build a week that survives Tuesdaysequence order
4. 04

   Managing the flow of work

   5 lessons
   • One trusted list: capturing everything in a single place
   • Treating the inbox as a queue, not a to-do list
   • Delegating and following up without micromanaging
   • Waiting-on lists and chasing politely
   • Two days out, one listscenario
5. 05

   Focus, interruptions and meetings

   5 lessons
   • Reducing interruption cost without becoming unreachable
   • Meeting hygiene: agenda, length and attendance
   • Channels, notifications and response-time expectations
   • Recovering focus after a disruption
   • Where the day actually wentmatch pairs
6. 06

   Making it stick

   5 lessons
   • A fortnightly review that keeps the system honest
   • Adjusting the system when the job changes
   • Workload conversations with your manager
   • Sustainable pace and recognising overload
   • Keeping the system honestfill blank
7. 07

   Practice and check

   5 lessons
   • Symptom to underlying causematch pairs
   • Building next week's plansequence order
   • The principles behind the systemfill blank
   • The Thursday blockscenario
   • Course quizquiz

The shape of it

How this course works