COMPREHENSIVE PERSONAL TIME MANAGEMENT COURSE

general courses

The aim of the course is to present the basic principles of time management, planning your own work, preventing of postponement and creating new ways of self-motivation.

The expected outcome would be broadening possibilities of effective time use and flexible thinking about it.

1. Basic content: task management, organisation of your own work, prioritizing, goal’s setting and achieving, getting things done easily, self – motivation.

2. Methodology – workshop

3. Courses to be chosen (I-III year , general courses)

4. Conditions for receiving a credit – attendance, term paper

The aim of the course is to know and practise:

• methods of organisation own actions

• management of operations to do

• ways of collecting information

• an effective attitude to analyse data

• techniqes of work organisation

• elements of results evaluation

• tools enabling operation

• focusing on realisation

• techniques of concentration

• basis of management

• possibilities of control over tasks

• perspectives of change: zoom in – zoom out

• strategies of progressing from targets to action

• systems of counteracting postponing

• methods of motivating and reducing stress

• solving various problems in time

The rated total number of hours a student is required to spend in order to achieve the expected learning outcomes defined for the course: 30 + 15

Required readings:

• Allen D., Getting Things Done, Gliwice 2012

• Covey S., 7 nawyków skutecznego działania (The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People), Warszawa 2006

• Fiore N., Nawyk samodyscypliny (The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination an Enjoying Guilt-Free Play), Gliwice 2008

Suggested readings

• Allen D., Wszystko pod kontrolą (Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life), Gliwice 2018

• Combs J., Zrób to teraz. Stop odkładaniu spraw na jutro (The Procrastination Cure: 7 Steps To Stop Putting Live Off). Gliwice 2013

• Maurer R., Filozofia Kaizen (One Small Step Can Change Your Life: The Kaizen Way) Gliwice 2007

During and upon the course completion a student will:

• be able to plan his own system of organising time and work

• be able to recognise areas demanding regrouping own workflow

• improve the methods of time management at work and learning

• create a system of information flow

• counteract the chaos and disorder in an effective way

• set his own directions of self-development

• set priorities for the future

• apply intentions in a life

• gain constant control over habits at work

• change the pace of work and rest

• counteract delaying things

• create an effective motivational system

• learn how to deal with problems caused by waste of time

Constant mark – 50%

term paper – 50%