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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Work Smarter, Not Harder: Time Management for Personal & Professional Productivity by University of California, Irvine

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About the Course

This course is for professionals, project managers, administrative assistants, and anyone seeking to enhance their personal and professional productivity. You will gain and apply knowledge of personal and professional awareness, organization, and commitment. Learn to use tools, methods, and techniques in goal setting, prioritization, scheduling, and delegation to overcome time management challenges and enhance productivity. Upon completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Plan effectively to achieve your personal and professional goals. 2. Recognize and overcome barriers to successful time management. 3. Identify specific time management tools (e.g., digital calendars, task management apps) and use them effectively. 4. Manage resources both effectively and efficiently. 5. Keep your sense of perspective to prevent and manage crises. 6. Delegate effectively. 7. Manage expectations and say “No” when appropriate. To be successful in this course, you should have a basic understanding of workplace organization and a desire to improve personal efficiency....

Top reviews

MB

Apr 11, 2020

Its a very nice and important course for our day to day life. Very effectively tutor explained the each and every topic in a very efficient manner which anyone can understand easily. Thanks.

MK

Dec 7, 2024

Amazing course, giving insight in simpler form and highly relatable to our daily work life. I am definitely apply key learnings in my life from this course. High respect & regard to the author.

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By Csongor F

Feb 14, 2016

I liked the course, however I'd like to give some feedback that might be useful to you:

I was surprised a bit how short the course is. When I read this "4-8 hours of videos, readings, and quizzes" I thought that there will be 4-8 hours of videos _besides_ readings and quizzes. So this one is a bit misleading.

Despite of this I liked the course. It gave me a lot of tricks and tips. However I don't understand the final 96.4% either. Maybe I missed something because after the last assignment the result has gone away in less then 1 second. As far as I know all my assignments were 100%.

The design of the videos is a bit "spartan" :) I finished a couple of other Coursera courses (HCI, Gamification etc.) where the videos were much more delightful. This white background, black text is very disappointing.

Anyway: Thanks!

By Shasta S

Jul 27, 2022

Helpful information. I think I've known a lot of these things already, but it's a good refresher and the most important thing is putting the tips into practice. I'm still the same "me" and there weren't any huge, mind-blowing new tips that changed "me" or the challenges I sometimes face dealing with a hectic work environment and tons of random and completely different requests/interruptions... However, all of the information was very practical, well-supported by research and clear on how to implement. So, it was worthwhile and i'd recommend it as a good place to star for people looking to improve their productivity and time management.

By Basil S

Oct 2, 2015

I liked that the lecturer is not wasting my time but also takes pauses: that's a great balance! I liked that the course is short (it took me two days to complete it). Information is relevant and worth thinking about. Especially for those people who haven't been thinking about it before.

I would improve design components of the course: typography of letters and all writings. It would make a course much much better. It could be done easily for the person who is familiar with this, but would make the course much much better for another people.

Thanks, Margaret Meloni and her team!

By Hélio C B

May 17, 2021

This course points to good soluitons to nowaday's common bad habits, like procrastination or multitasking, and some of the strategies are very applicable the my work environment (not all because of hierarchical and cultural differences).

The only point I would like to change is the teacher's tone of voice. It sounded too low for me, even after setting the volume to maximum I have had difficulties parsing the words. This may be an issue of english not being my mother language, but comparing to other courses that's a possible explanation.

Thank you very much.

By Margot B C

Oct 18, 2023

I enjoyed the exercises that necessitated working through time management, and concrete suggestions for improvements. The videos were not terrible, so that's good! In fact they were never too long and presented topics concisely although almost always in an 'at work' context instead of say a 'finding work' or other context. It was easy to check off assignments, and submit discussion responses, but not easy to find them later or look into who may have reacted or upvoted and perhaps actually have a discussion with fellow students.