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High performers aren't born with more hours in the day; they manage focus, deadlines, and habits more deliberately than everyone else.
This Productivity Playbook Specialization gives you a practical system across three areas: deep focus and distraction control, deadline planning and reverse engineering, and the daily habits that drive consistent execution.
You'll work through techniques for managing task switching, taming digital distractions, prioritizing competing demands, reverse engineering timelines, and using reward systems to sustain new behaviors.
By the end, you'll have a portable productivity playbook you can apply to any project at work or in your personal life, plus the mindset tools to keep you performing when stakes are high.
Syllabus
- Course 1: Developing a Laser Focus
- Course 2: How to Get Things Done Ahead of Deadlines
- Course 3: Habits to Win Every Day
Courses
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While everyone is familiar with the concept of focus, it remains a rare commodity to most. Your ability to focus is a key factor for improving your chances for success. In this course, taught by performance coach Bill Williams, you'll be introduced to the different types of focus, and then you'll learn exactly what focus requires more broadly. You'll not only discover strategies to unlock your ability to focus, you'll also learn to overcome common environmental barriers, connect with yourself and others, and develop habits that sync your mind and body. By the end of this course, you'll have the tools required to stay on task and increase your awareness for personal and professional gain.
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Do you want to find ways to build more alignment, manage your energy effectively, and increase your motivation levels? This course, taught by executive coach and Olympic Psychologist Jason Richardson, PsyD, will empower you to do all of these things and more. Jason will first walk through how you can shift your mindset to create an environment for success. He'll help you identify what's important to you, and what goals you're looking to achieve. Then he'll review how you can reduce your energy killers and swap them out with sources that can give you more energy. Jason will also provide methods for how you can commit to achieving your goals by building in consistency, finding your why, and placing your bets. Finally, he'll review how you can keep yourself motivated as you look to accomplish and achieve new things. After finishing this course, you will feel prepared to incorporate these habits, shift your mindset, and win every day.
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Have you ever worked with someone who never seemed to miss a deadline, or even got things done early? If so, you've likely wondered what their secret is. In this course, creativity and productivity expert Samantha Bennett will demystify how these deadline masters operate. Sam will give you an understanding of the psychology of deadlines, methods of setting up a project for success, and the means to plan for the unexpected. you'll gain practical strategies to set expectations, communicate and collaborate, and get things done to meet every deadline.
Taught by
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