Improving Your Productivity

The Improving Your Productivity eLearning course provides learners with an understanding of practical approaches to managing their time, workload and priorities more effectively.

The course explores factors that can affect personal productivity, including distractions, competing demands and ineffective working habits. Learners will consider techniques for setting priorities, planning their workload, maintaining focus and developing working practices that support consistent and effective performance.

Who Should Attend?

• Employees at all levels.
• New starters developing their workplace skills.
• Managers, supervisors and team leaders.
• Employees managing multiple tasks or competing priorities.
• Office-based, remote and hybrid workers.
• Anyone looking to improve their personal productivity and organisation at work.

What You Will Learn

• What is meant by personal productivity.
• Factors that can influence productivity at work.
• Recognising personal working habits and patterns.
• Identifying common barriers to productivity.
• Setting clear and achievable goals.
• Establishing priorities effectively.
• Distinguishing between urgent and important tasks.
• Planning and organising workloads.
• Breaking larger tasks into manageable activities.
• Managing competing demands and priorities.
• Using time effectively throughout the working day.
• Recognising and reducing unnecessary distractions.
• Maintaining concentration and focus.
• Managing interruptions appropriately.
• Avoiding unnecessary procrastination.
• Using task lists, calendars and other planning tools effectively.
• Establishing realistic deadlines and timescales.
• Recognising when workloads or expectations need to be discussed.
• Reviewing progress and adjusting priorities where necessary.
• Developing effective and sustainable working habits.
• Applying productivity techniques to everyday workplace activities.

Course Delivery

This course is delivered as self-directed eLearning through the ELMO learning platform.

Learners can work through the course at their own pace and can move backwards and forwards through the learning content as required. The course does not need to be completed in one sitting, allowing learners to leave and return to their training where necessary.

Interactive activities may be included throughout the course to reinforce key learning points.

Assessment

Knowledge and understanding are checked through online assessment activities. Depending on the course content, these may include multiple-choice questions, matching exercises, drag-and-drop activities and image-based questions.

A minimum score of 70% is required to successfully complete the course.

Certification

Upon successful completion of the course and assessment requirements, learners will receive a UK Rural Skills (UKRS) Accredited Certificate of Training.

Course Duration

The course is self-directed and learners can progress through the content at their own pace. Completion time may therefore vary depending on the individual learner.