Time Management & Prioritisation
A practical system for getting the right things done under real workplace pressure: capturing every commitment in one trusted place, separating urgent from important, planning a realistic day, protecting focus, and resetting priorities each week.
54m
Total time
4
Competency levels
12
Lessons
What you'll learn
- Explain the difference between being busy and being effective, and identify where your own hours actually go
- Capture every commitment in one trusted system instead of relying on memory
- Separate urgent from important, and recognise the cost of living permanently in urgency
- Prioritise work by outcome, consequence and true deadline rather than by who asked last or loudest
- Plan a realistic day with a few big rocks, deliberate buffer and a protected focus block
- Negotiate scope and deadlines constructively, and run a weekly review that resets your priorities
Curriculum
Progress through each competency level in order.
1
Awareness
- 3mBusy Is Not the Same as EffectiveKnowledge
- 3mOne Trusted System Instead of Your HeadKnowledge
- 7mAwareness Check: Busy, Effective and CaptureAssessment
2
Knowledge
- 3mUrgent Versus ImportantKnowledge
- 3mPrioritising by Outcome and DeadlineKnowledge
- 8mKnowledge Check: Urgency, Importance and PriorityAssessment
3
Skill
- 3mPlanning a Realistic Day and Protecting FocusKnowledge
- 3mPractice: Run Your System for a WeekAssignment
- 8mSkill Check: Planning, Buffer and FocusAssessment
4
Mastery
- 3mBoundaries, Batching and the Weekly ResetKnowledge
- 3mCapstone: A Four-Week Personal SystemAssignment
- 7mMastery Assessment: Holding the Plan Under PressureAssessment
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