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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

PR

Jul 10, 2020

I am grateful to attend to Coursera classes. The data gives brief and simple explanation understandable to brain.Which we can practice in day to day life , to increase efficiency in work and life

PJ

Aug 1, 2020

Simple, lucid and engaging with real-time practical challenges. Resource material like formats, slides and link to articles and youtube video (loved the one on Multitasking in Week 4) are beneficial.

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By Emily P

Sep 15, 2025

Course was well laid-out, engaging, and gave me great ideas and tools to move forward with.

By Banele J N

Jun 27, 2025

quite informative and very useful not just for working individuals but for students as well

By Jennifer A

Nov 18, 2021

I really enjoyed this course. It gave me some tips on how to mange different things a once.

By Md. M S

Mar 21, 2021

This course is very nice course to improve time management policy and work plan. thanks UCI

By Faris F A M

Nov 17, 2020

This course helped me in understanding more about multitasking during multiple assignments.

By Sandeep V P

Aug 19, 2020

Very practical approach , bullet points to focus to improve professional and personal life.

By Andrés H P C

Jul 28, 2020

The essential and completely knowledge neccessary to managing my time. Thank you very much.

By Rudy G S

Jul 4, 2020

Very good training. Simple things can give big impact to productivity when you realize them

By NIKHIL G

Apr 26, 2020

Fantastic course to save our precious time.Time is the most valuable resource. Thanks a lot

By Ruslan A K

Mar 30, 2020

Brilliant motivation course but I probably wanted to find out some apps and recomendations.

By Joyce A

Oct 29, 2019

Excellent course with lots of knowledge . Expecting a lot of improviement in the way i work

By Juan M P M

Sep 22, 2019

A VERY INTERESTING COURSE, IMPORTANT BOTH FOR PERSONAL DAILY LIFE AND WORK, RECOMMENDING IT

By Raffaele G

Aug 29, 2018

effective and actionable strategy to get the best from your most valuable asset: your time!

By Huelvedra F

Nov 24, 2016

Excellent course, content, direction. It opens our vision to productivity. Congratulations!

By Anna S

May 11, 2016

Loved it. All content was new to me. Super useful. Best teacher ever.

I reccommend it 100%!

By Filandro C L

Nov 25, 2020

This course is great! it helps me a lot to work properly my work plan and time management.

By Tomas R

Aug 12, 2020

There's a lot of useful information and tips that everybody should know. It was wonderful!

By Hannah J D

Apr 23, 2020

A very worth wile and valuable course. I will be putting what I have learnt into practice.

By Hien N N

Mar 1, 2020

Great! Now I'm confident to level my management skills up. Thank you so much, my lecturer!

By Heather N

May 8, 2019

Easy to get through the material. Techniques seem legit and relatively easy to implement.

By MD. A H

Oct 24, 2018

It's a great course to learn how to manage time, work smarter, handle bigger responsibilit

By Kelly R K

Oct 1, 2015

Very useful tools, even for someone like me who's been in the workforce for over 20 years.

By Destiny D

Oct 31, 2022

It taught me how to be more productive with my time, I learnt alot of prioritization also

By Etibar B

Dec 23, 2020

For a long tome It' s a great success for me, this course closely connected with my work.

By Cindy N

Oct 9, 2020

I have gain excellent skills to improve the way I manage my work and personal activities.