Chris Croft Training

Personal Effectiveness: Time Management, Goals, Efficiency

Chris Croft Training

Personal Effectiveness: Time Management, Goals, Efficiency

Chris Croft

Instructor: Chris Croft

Access provided by National Open University of Nigeria

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
8 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace
Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.
8 hours to complete
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Apply practical techniques to manage time more effectively, overcome procrastination, prioritise tasks, and improve personal productivity.

  • Set meaningful goals, manage projects and workloads more efficiently, and build habits that increase effectiveness and reduce stress.

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6 assignments¹

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Taught in English
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June 2026

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There are 5 modules in this course

This module helps learners create a practical personal productivity system for managing everyday commitments with less stress and more clarity. Learners will build habits for capturing tasks, planning realistic days, tracking follow-ups, handling email, protecting focus, and reducing wasted effort from interruptions and repeated work. These skills are immediately useful in workplaces, study settings, and daily life where forgotten tasks, overloaded calendars, and fragmented attention can quietly undermine effectiveness.

What's included

9 videos6 readings1 assignment

This module addresses chronic overload and the feeling of always being busy but never caught up. Learners will practice making better decisions about what to accept, what to renegotiate, what to delegate, and what to streamline. The module also helps learners avoid overpromising, respond when plans go off track, and balance urgent requests with important work so that busyness does not replace effectiveness.

What's included

9 videos6 readings1 assignment

This module treats procrastination as a practical behavior problem that can be changed with better strategies, not as a personal failing. Learners will identify why delay happens, use small activation techniques to get started, strengthen follow-through through accountability and delegation, and support action with motivation, energy, rewards, and habits. By the end, learners will have a toolkit for turning intention into consistent progress on important but difficult work.

What's included

10 videos3 readings2 assignments

This module connects personal effectiveness to a broader question: what outcomes, experiences, and ways of living are truly worth your time. Learners will reflect on success and happiness, see how goals shape discipline and direction, and create goals that are written, visible, ambitious, and actionable. The module helps turn abstract aspirations into concrete plans so that daily choices align more closely with meaningful long-term aims.

What's included

11 videos4 readings1 assignment

This module introduces practical project management methods for turning a vague idea into a defined, scheduled, monitored, and reviewable piece of work. Learners will compare project approaches, define scope and constraints, break work into tasks, estimate time and cost, build schedules, manage risk and change, and capture lessons learned. These foundations are valuable for anyone leading or contributing to small projects in professional, academic, freelance, or community settings.

What's included

10 videos5 readings1 assignment

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