4 Essential Skills - Planning, Organizing, Prioritizing and Completing

4 Essential Skills - Planning, Organizing, Prioritizing and Completing is a course covering foundation skills esssential for completing projects and tasks. Planning is setting goals and defining the strategies that will be used to achieve those goals. Being organized enables us to control our workload, create a better work-life balance and feel more energized. Prioritizing establishes an effective workflow, with a focus on tasks that are considered the most urgent and most difficult. Planning, organizing and prioritizing are all geared to the final stage of completing the tasks - getting them done. Completion requires perseverance but, with self-awareness and basic strategies, everyone can learn to finish what they start.

In this course psychologists Peter Quarry and Eve Ash explain these essential skills, and you will learn ways to improve them.

Plan - Define and communicate clear manageable goals so everyone is on board;
Organize - Identify and follow your preferred work pattern, reduce clutter, manage distractions, and use time blocks and breaks;
Prioritize - List and rank tasks, then tackle high priority tasks first;
Complete - Set tight timelines, avoid procrastination and use rewards;