Productivity Course Online | Productivity Training
Essential Productivity Training
There’s nothing more satisfying than checking off your to-do list tasks as “done”. But how many of us maintain the level of productivity we’d like to have every day?
Supercharge your efficiency with this powerhouse productivity course. Learn how to optimize your workflow so you can move seamlessly from task to task, using popular free tools like Evernote, Trello, Todoist, Hours, Google Calendar, and Slack.
What you will learn
In this online course, productivity expert Francesco D'Alessio will guide you in choosing the right productivity applications for your needs and how to best use each application.
You will learn how to create smart notes for maximum recall, set goals and keep tabs on progress, track where your time is being spent, and effectively communicate with your team.
Apps are a tool to your productivity like a shoe is to a runner. You will use them to support the productive habits and systems you create, helping to increase your output and execute on your plans.
By the end of the course, you will be able to unleash your productivity to meet deadlines at work, achieve personal goals, and get more done in less time.
Who this productivity course is for
This course is suitable for anyone who wants to increase their productivity. Whether you’re a solopreneur or part of a team, this essential productivity training will teach you how to keep busywork at bay through thoughtful organization, planning, and collaboration.
Highlights:
- 35 practical tutorials
- Choose the right productivity application without wasting time or effort
- Learn when you should and shouldn’t go Premium with a productivity app
- Take the most effective and comprehensive notes in Evernote with tags, shortcuts, note data, and more
- Design the perfect kanban board on Trello for personal and collaborative work
- Use Trello’s functions and features to effectively plan events, an editorial calendar, and more
- Intelligently setup projects on Todoist for yourself and add members to shared projects
- Use labels, filters, colors, inbox set-ups and more to improve your Todoist experience
- Keep track of how you are spending your time on activities, projects and clients with Hours
- Boost your Google Calendar capabilities with third party apps
- Productivity tips to optimize how you and your team communicate through Slack
Further amp up your productivity with these related courses: Trello, Google Drive and Apps.
Once enrolled, our friendly support team and tutors are here to help with any course related inquiries.
Syllabus
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1
Introduction to Evernote Short introduction to Evernote, the benefits, uses and features. 5m
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Organizing Your Evernote Notebooks Setting up notebooks in an orderly fashion to help keep organized with work and play. 3m
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Creating Effective Notes Inside Evernote Maximizing all of Evernote's note functions to make the note multimedia rich and dense for optimum recall. 4m
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Using the Evernote Web Clipper Sharing all of the features of the Chrome web clipper to help reference and record websites, images and much more. 3m
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Maximizing Your Evernote Use Using more advanced elements like shortcuts, inbox and more to optimize your Evernote efforts. 5m
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Example: Full Evernote Set-up My full Evernote set-up to help create some context to using Evernote. 7m
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Introduction to Trello Basics of the Trello system and the benefits of using a visual service like Trello 5m
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Creating Trello Boards Designing the perfect kanban board set-up for your work, using the functions and features within. 4m
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Creating Trello Team Boards Starting a new team board for your colleagues to work with. 4m
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Planning an Event in Trello Planning an event using Trello's features and functions. 4m
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Designing Your Own Editorial Calendar in Trello One of Trello's popular uses is for planning content. Here's a short guide to editorial calendar creation. 4m
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Trello Long-term Planning Taking your Trello potential to a new level! 4m
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Introduction to Todoist Basics of Todoist, benefits of the service and how it can be used. 4m
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Adding Tasks to the Todoist Inbox Creating new tasks, assigning them and processing your inbox. 4m
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Setting up Todoist Projects Setting up of your projects, naming them and creating the tasks within. 4m
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Shared Projects in Todoist Setting up a shared project for team members to join and assign new items with you. 3m
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Intelligent Input for Todoist Tasks Using the smart native language input to craft new tasks and to-dos on mobile, desktop and web. 4m
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Todoist Labels Using labels to improve your Todoist experience. 3m
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Todoist Filters Using filters to improve your Todoist experience. 4m
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Example: Full Todoist Set-up Sharing my full set-up to help provide context to each user on how they could be using Todoist. 5m
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Introduction to Hours Sharing the concept of Hours and time tracking resources. Providing the benefits of using something like this. 3m
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Tally Your Time for Clients in Hours Creating new timers and tag systems for each client to track the time spent with each. 3m
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Using Hours Within a Workday How Hours can be used in an everyday work concept to tally time. 5m
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Introduction to Google Calendar Using Google Calendar against the other tools like Apple Calendar, Microsoft Outlook. Benefits of using a Calendar like Google Calendar. 4m
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3rd Party Calendar Services Choosing other services that use Google Calendar. Recommending a few suggestions with their pricing and full information. 4m
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Introduction to Slack The concept of Slack and the benefits and disadvantages of using real-time conversations for the team. 4m
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Sharing Files and Messages in Slack Basics of sharing messages and getting your team started on Slack. 3m
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Connecting Other Services to Slack Link Slack to other services like Twitter, Google Drive and Trello to help boost productivity. 5m
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Course Summary Re-capping the lessons from the full course 3m
Certificate
Certificate of Completion
Awarded upon successful completion of the course.
Instructor
Francesco D'Alessio
Francesco D'Alessio is a productivity expert based in the South West of the UK. Francesco runs a popular YouTube channel focused on reviewing the freshest productivity apps. He currently has over 29,000 subscribers and more than 3 million views.
Francesco works remotelyas a freelancer for several tech start-ups on marketing, PR and content creation, putting all of the personal productivity applications into practice every day.
Francesco D'Alessio
Freelancer and Educator
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How GoSkills helped Chris
I got the promotion largely because of the skills I could develop, thanks to the GoSkills courses I took. I set aside at least 30 minutes daily to invest in myself and my professional growth. Seeing how much this has helped me become a more efficient employee is a big motivation.
